Recent content by Romsey

Stress your attention to detail as a skill and explain how you used that skill. Examples of where you have thought problems through from a wider perspective. Service strengthening for football at Little Snoring. Is there spare stock with crews with suitable traction and route knowledge? Is...

X4 Eastleigh - Hedge End and X4A Eastleigh - Falkland Road/Velmore have been relinquished by Xelabus. Routes are now covered by Bluestar routes 23 and 24. X6 and X7 around Eastleigh, Chandlers Ford and Hiltingbury are being covered by a communiuty bus service ( Route 44 )with a better...

Maybe, but their attitude was pretty rude giving the impression that customers were an inconveience. I'm not going to name the store but they did end up in the local media some years ago for refusing entry to a customer in a wheel chair as "they would get in the way". Sorry, sir, but we're only...

Thanks for the reminder, not that I'm going to France in the near future!

Recently I was shopping in a large retail store in my home town about a year ago. They had decided to go card only without any publicity or notices on the doors. As the purchases totalled only a few pounds I wished to pay by cash. The attitude of two members of staff was "no one uses cash"...

Actually our railways have a complex discount system compared to other European countries which give a 50% discount and that's it. 33% discount for railcards 50% for FIP (Foreign railway staff) and some Department of Wales job seekers tickets 75% for active and retired BR conditions staff. To...

You would be suprised how much of the cleaning, flower tending and litter picking is done by station supporters / community rail partnerships at weekends. Such volunteers can report defects via the station help point with a degree of authority as they are on the station officially. They are not...

The main is towards Portsmouth, Fareham is the branch as shown on signal HT37 with feathers to top right. Cheers, Neil 1686838493 Either on the normal bulk upload overnight Friday/Saturday. If there are serious concerns over trespass, the schedules will only be loaded a couple of hours in...

This idea has been kicked around on odd occasions within BR / Network SE and Network Rail over many years. The earthworks required are not too much, but it would mean considerable track arrangements, perhaps a new platform and a complete resignalling of both routes. Then the journey time...

Cricklewood was supplied with traction gas oil from Fawley in the 1970's, along with most depots onn the southn and west of London.

Thanks for the correction,just trying to rember which signs applied when at Eastleigh works!

Are options 1 & 2 using 175's really viable? Other threads on here and another forum plus BBC news suggest they are having considerable maintenance problems with the TfW resulting in a number of fires and considerable delays. The last thing that Chiltern will want or need is introducing...

Odd movements like Southern EMU's to Horwich or refurbishment of 4CEP's at Swindon were done to use available workshop capacity. Remember that in the 1970's and early 1980's the workshops were run by British Rail Maintenance Limited as part of the BRB. Costs were important but there was no...

Not a fast start from Exeter Central, stately and noisy. ( It's meant to be stately with the Pullmans!)

According to friends in North America, it's wholly a tourist railway nowadays. Just to reinforce that, the WP&Y is now partly owned by Carnival Cruises to provide some thing for their passengers to do in their day in Skagway.