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    Liverpool-London

    Cheers
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    Liverpool-London

    Hi all, Im travelling Liverpool Lime Street to London on Friday 5th October and returning on Sunday 7th October. On the way there probably getting the 1048 train from Lime Street,not sure about the return. Can anyone help with return ticket prices and/or any possible engineering work over...
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    "Boarding" and "alighting"

    I thought it was only me that thought that!!
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    Twitter good or bad?

    Good in the way that people can make tocs aware of situations. Bad in the way of passengers taking pictures of traincrew (without there permission) and uploading them for no reason! Seems to be a favourite thing to do at the min at the company i work for.
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    Bache - no longer "for Chester Zoo"?

    Im pretty certain there was a request from the hospital for an announcements from what ive heard! I know from working that line you do actually get a lot of passengers leaving at Bache for the hospital.
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    Overnight trains

    0338 Liverpool Lime Street-Manchester Airport
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    Busy First/Last Trains

    Any Merseyrail trains from Liverpool outwards on a Friday/Saturday nights can get rammed! Also late night trains into town on a Saturday night from West Kirby/Chester/Southport etc!
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    Liverpool Central Closure

    All the staff that are normally based at Central are either being temporarily transferred to other underground stations inc Moorfileds or doing the buses at St Georges Hall.
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    What's happened to our 323s?

    Great points! If it wasnt for your pointless 'look at my car' picture then id be in full agreement.
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    "Train Station"?

    Does it really matter what its called?
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    'Gunman' at Sleaford Station

    The company i work for (who will rename nameless!) would probably want to know why i didnt allow him on the train&then do me for incorrect door procedures!!
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    Get Attacked at a Station. Who do you call?

    999 everytime,you could probably get attacked&spend a month in hospital recovering by the time BTP turn up...
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    Catering Trolley on Virgin Trains

    I cant remember ever seeing one!
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    Shambles at Wembley Central after League Cup on Sunday at Wembley Stadium

    Not all the modern railway. Aintree races/the Grand National are always handled very well.
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    Conductors and 'customer services' bypasses

    I stamp kids tickets/receipts/random bits of paper all the time,dont see any problem with it.
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    Up/Down

    As far as i know its generally up towards a city/down away from it. Hence Merseyrails Chester line which is classed as the Down Chester coming from Liverpool then changes to the Up Birkenhead line at Hooton as it gets closer to Chester.
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    Oxenholme connections

    To be fair missing the Ormskirk to Liverpool train isnt the world of the world,theres another one in 15minutes!
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    Doors closing - your views on the behaviour of a guard

    Ive had it many times where ive been standing time for a couple of minutes at a station,go to close the doors&someone jumps off at the last possible second! &literally been knocked backwards once by a passenger who was determined to get on my train even though the doors were closing! Even...
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    Rail in the North conference

    Couldnt agree more,just to read a sensible forum page without the silly comments would be great

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