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BR Sleeper service attendants

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Czesziafan

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Just out of interest were the BR sleeper attendants employed by BR proper or Travellers-Fare? Reason I ask is that I remember being served tea and biscuits in the morning with the sugar wrapped in TF packaging and I think TF cardboard cups which if my memory serves me right were better tasting (and probably more nutritious) than the liquid contents).
 
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As the report into the fire (at the end of our road) identifies, "nominally" indeed.

Absolutely. Communication, training, supervision and management were practically non-existent, and it's hardly surprising the job was inconsistently performed to say the least.
 

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Absolutely. Communication, training, supervision and management were practically non-existent,
Including giving the supervision of staff who, by definition, are on permanent nights to someone who works 9-5 in an office. Although notably, of the several sleeper attendants on the train, it was the one for the two cars involved who had by far the longest experience.

The locking of doors was principally to deal with two longstanding problems with sleeper travel, both of which got scant consideration in the report. One was the theft of baggage and valuables from those who were asleep. The second was the issue of unauthorised and unbooked travellers from the seating vehicles getting into vacant sleeper compartments to sleep for the night.
 

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Going back to OP, I think that arrangements may have changed under the sectors. I vaguely recall a conversation with an InterCity manager in Scotland when the idea of a Solent portion on the Scotland-West Country Sleepers was being developed. In the absence of any existing attendants at Southampton I think that there was agreement that some on-board catering staff on the Waterloo-Bournemouth route could opt in to being trained and available to perform sleeping car attendant (SCA) work. Presumably gave the chance for a bit of variety, rest-day working and so forth.

All a bit hazy now.
 

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Just out of interest were the BR sleeper attendants employed by BR proper or Travellers-Fare? Reason I ask is that I remember being served tea and biscuits in the morning with the sugar wrapped in TF packaging and I think TF cardboard cups which if my memory serves me right were better tasting (and probably more nutritious) than the liquid contents).
Wouldn't the Travellers Fare branding just be, effectively, what the food supplier contractor provided? Equivalent nowadays being a hotel I was in recently with sugar sachets branded by one of the big coffee companies (not Costa or Starbucks but one of the not-quite-so-common ones that I can't remember now).
 

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Wouldn't the Travellers Fare branding just be, effectively, what the food supplier contractor provided? Equivalent nowadays being a hotel I was in recently with sugar sachets branded by one of the big coffee companies (not Costa or Starbucks but one of the not-quite-so-common ones that I can't remember now).
Exactly.
 
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