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...appears to be closing, with the loss of at least 8 jobs. For the benefit of anyone unfamiliar, Skytrac are the company who provide First Transpennine Express' outsourced onboard catering. From the RMT: Sad to hear of job losses - obviously this is from the RMT so it'll be far from...

Flicking through various threads, there's often criticism of the First Class offer on trains - but what do folk actually think makes that perfect service? Train companies often say that their service is what their passengers want, but is it? Bear in mind suggestions should be realistic and...

Hi all, I've been thinking about the above ticket recently; for those who are unfamiliar with it, it's basically a fare for under-16s between any two stations in the GMPTE area, 50p for a single, £1 for return. Whilst being labeled as an Accompanied Child fare in the destination (GMPTE...

I went on a journey t'other week with VXC and their customer service was... severely appaling. The air-con had failed, the train was full to capacity and the onboard crew would not do anything about it. So I sent an e-mail to Virgin's customer service department stating very clearly I was...

I was taking a few pictures, and I had problems with people getting in the way of my shots. Now, before you say "this is common", "you've got to live with it, unfortunately," etc, this involved the felow in the rear cab of 150125 running the 1448 (?) Centro service to B'ham. Whether this was...

Here's my little game - Try and identify the locations, and post how to get between the nearest station to 1) and the nearest station to 2): One from a previous photographing trip... 1) 2) How would you get between these two places?