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    What was the motivation for including station management in TOC franchises?

    As much as opinions differ on the merits or otherwise of the privatisation of train operations in the 1990s, and as much as we can speculate about what ulterior motives there could have been, and bemoan that what was promised is not necessarily what materialised in reality, the public-facing...
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    GWR good customer service

    As the passenger on platform 13 experiencing disruption, I'd rather have useful updates on the situation, even if some of it is more pertinent to the train on platform 7, than just to be told "Attention please on platform 13 - [my train] has been cancelled" over and over again. Clearly if some...
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    GWR good customer service

    I do think there's a case in times of severe disruption for turning off the automated announcer and giving a member of staff the job of making regular announcements to keep people updated. Often the auto announcer will just endlessly repeat "The [time] service to [destination] is delayed. Please...
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    Guided Busways

    I don't think that at all. I have absolutely no idea of what their pre-existing knowledge or experience is, nor who else who might end up reading the post and what knowledge or experience they have. So I cannot assume that everyone has the context that has lead me to my opinion, so it seemed...
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    Guided Busways

    I think that's largely because this country simply doesn't know, and refuses to learn, how to do buses properly. Go to a continental European city and you'll generally find long buses with several doors. Even at a busy stop, boarding/alighting can be completed in quite a short time and the bus...
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Lucky these days to have a seat! (dependent on route and TOC of course)
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    TfGM Bee Network - fleet updates (repaints etc.)

    I know this is extremely minor in the grand scheme of things, but it's a bit irritating that for all the harmonisation of branding and information provision, nobody has thought to standardise the route/destination displays on the outside of the buses. It appears that each operator is currently...
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    Why are XC allowed to continue?

    What about sending XC through Castlefield to serve both? [ducks for cover]
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    Why are XC allowed to continue?

    I'm generally opposed to splitting Manchester-Birmingham out of XC but that's solely because I dislike New Street station. If the timetable could be set up so that the EMU from Manchester pulls in and the train heading south is already sat at the opposite side of the same island, ready for...
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    Class 175 future speculation

    In that case, if a loud group gets in the /0 by accident, they're stuck...
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    Cross Country overcrowding - shortage of rolling stock

    May have already been answered but how many Voyager diagrams does XC currently have on a weekday, and how many of those are already doubles?
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    Stagecoach Yorkshire and Chesterfield

    Seems to be a bit of an uptick in cancellations for Stagecoach in Sheffield this week. Any idea why?
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    Most "interesting" bus company for workings

    Indeed, it's quite common. At the old bus station it did have the slightly annoying consequence of not knowing which stop you would arrive at because the buses had to arrive in the right place for the route they were departing rather than arriving on. No idea how much of an issue that is with...
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    TfGM Bee Network - fleet updates (repaints etc.)

    but with a stock interior, apparently? To be fair, I didn't even realise they still made those, I had an idea they'd been discontinued.
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    Azuma seating

    Quite early on, if I recall, GWR had all the seat covering fabric replaced across their IET fleet as what had originally been specified was deemed inadequate. LNER has needed extra luggage racks installed across the fleet. Now we are faced with the prospect of the seats - which, if other posts...

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