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    Lack of train crew on Great Northern?

    I'm assuming that TOC overtime is a similar 50% uplift and pensions are a similar 8%. Now if TOCs aren't paying time-and-a-half for overtime, and offer 50% of the base salary in pensions, that's different. Seems a crazy deal to me. If instead it's a scheduling problem and they have enough...
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    There are two solutions to that. Either increase price to reduce demand, or increase supply. is there a signifiant increase in cost for each extra car added? Especially if they were couchette cars? An extra attendant at say £300 per trip, or £30 a cabin with one attendent per car. Some extra...
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    Lack of train crew on Great Northern?

    Overtime at my job is 50% of the normal hourly rate. Pension contribution is 6% (but not on overtime) Employing someone at £50k for 2000 hours with 280 hours of leave and 8% pension contribution would cost £60k, or £30 an hour 2000 hours overtime at a base rate of £25 an hour would be £85,500...
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    Lack of train crew on Great Northern?

    The assertion is Either that's right, in which case hiring new staff would have been sensible, or it's wrong - which is it?
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    Lack of train crew on Great Northern?

    The 100k "cliff" is the sudden loss of money for free childcare, not tax specific, and not the only "benefit cliff". Tax alone at 100k is marginal of 62% (71% if you have a student loan). There was another similar bracket until this year from 50k-60k when child benefit was reduced, pushing...
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    Liverpool Street stopped by greater Anglia for buying ticket short of full fare

    That's a stretch - sounds like the RPI is taking peoples phones and accessing apps. Especially when combined with "He then went through my Trainline history" Is that normal behaviour? It doesn't sound like something a train company would sanction. I'd be astounded if they're even allowed to...
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    Liverpool Street stopped by greater Anglia for buying ticket short of full fare

    I'm confused, how did he get access to your banking app? There is no requirement in the UK to have ID. You are required to give your name and address when asked by an officer of the railway.
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    2024 Budget impact on Rail

    NHS is extremely efficient (half the administration costs of the Netherlands for example), is used by practically everyone throughout their lives, and treats far more patients with far fewer resources than comparable countries. The railway meanwhile is used by a tiny minority of the country, is...
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    2024 Budget impact on Rail

    Charging for railcards really puts off people from doing the Wife and Mother-in-law looking at going to a christmas market, they could get the train, but clearly aren't going to waste £30 on a railcard, so would have to pay £60 for 2 full fares. Or they could drive, which is far cheaper than...
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    Euston overcrowding

    Did someone thing the countdown would make people go "don't worry, don't need to run, we've got 6 minutes 14 seconds", rather than "oh crap we'd better leg it we've only got 6 minutes 14 seconds"
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    Off Peak Return

    That's a better response than the first one. Still has a joke in there ("incorrect advice being offered is not common") but it doesn't overwhelm the rest of the message like the first one's zingers
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    London-Cambridge return this w/e: 2 adults Network Card & TFL Oyster 60+

    Do BZ9 fares exist? https://www.brfares.com/!fares?orig=QAJ&dest=CBG&rlc=NEW&period=20240928 as a Boundary zone 6 fare exists. No idea if a TFL60+ can be combined with a BZ6 fare
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    Northern and prosecutions for railcard use before 10am

    If a ticket is no Of course I suspect this entire situation has been engineered by the railway as the outcome will not be "The railway is misleading passengers, and in many cases not obeying the terms and conditions they wrote, lets hold them accountable", but instead "Its too complicated, lets...
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    Northern and prosecutions for railcard use before 10am

    Because it was cheaper and claimed to be valid at any time on any train.
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    Northern and prosecutions for railcard use before 10am

    A passenger used an any time ticket which said "can be used at any time" at any time Stop printing tickets saying they are valid at any time when they are in fact only valid after 10am.
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    Northern and prosecutions for railcard use before 10am

    Ideally the media would look at what happens the other way when highly trained rail staff make "innocent mistakes" about ticket validity and charge passengers more than they should (Paddington and Euston gatelines for example), and ask where the criminal charges are. If a retailer sells a...
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    Empire Builder - Amtrak

    I took a roomette on a viewliner from New York to Miami last weekend. The website was advertising $561, although I booked via amex and work for policy reasons which cost more. Sigh. I really liked the roomette - it was a mk1 so had the in-room toilet/sink which I found a really neat use of...
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    Off Peak Return

    It may be intended, however the restriction text do not convey that intention. If the passenger can ignore "obvious" problems, why can't Mr Gateline This would leave it with the itinerary as the only form of defence that the ticket is valid Presumably the correct solution is to change the...
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    Baggage Security Checks at Eurostar Paris Gare du Nord

    Bingo. If you want to save money get rid of them completely. The metal detector part especially is hilarious -- what are they looking for? What damage will you be able to do on the 1515 from St Pancras to Paris that you can't do on the 1515 to Sheffield? Maybe have a couple of sniffer dogs...
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    Manchester Trains from Euston

    As there is no extra capacity through Stockport, presumably HS2 will mean the current Man/Stockport/Crewe service and one of the Man/Stockport/Stokes will move onto HS2 with the northern stops as now, with one of the services staying on Man/Stockport/Stoke/Thames Valley Then likely have one or...

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