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    Virgin Trains East Coast launch day

    It looks fantastic much better than the drab grey and the dated pretendolino thing
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    What is your favourite seat?

    the drivers seat
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    East Coast Documentary

    maybe its not aimed at the train spotter ( or rail enthusiast ) audience and more for the general public
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    East Coast emergency stop video

    i guess in the eyes of the guy trying to get off it was kind of an emergency to him .... its no big deal really and happens all the time in fact i would say once a month to me and i am an EC driver .... its the ppm that the tocs care about more .... i guess the pass comm and emergency door...
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    Am I ever destined to work in the rail industry?

    Nope not in our messrooms either .... to be honest im not sure if the op is cut out for a railway job having read some of their anti rail posts although thats just my own opinion .... why so keen to work somewhere that you dont like ... anyway its probably down to your cv and relevant experience...
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    Am I ever destined to work in the rail industry?

    i think network rail at Leeds are looking to employ station cleaners and littler pickers
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    Leeds Gateline

    Perhaps its a case of inadequate training by the toc that employs them or maybe laziness on the gatelines part .... what I was thinking maybe if they dont do the job right is to write in to complain then something might be done about it or even have the staff replaced not that I want to see...
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    Rail shareholders?

    Oh yes my shares in first group have almost doubled ... a nice little nest egg in fact
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    Special needs children denied free first class upgrades

    Such a shocking example of bad customer service
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    East Coast Breakdown

    Could have been a dsd or tpws fault making the leading cab inoperable thus the 67 on the front
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    East Coast - terrible service!

    well there you go i would be straight on to the guard for advice
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    East Coast - terrible service!

    if in doubt ASK .... cant say what the staff at wakefield were doing as i dont know the full details or have seen the op's ticket for final destination .......... remember in disruption it vital to double check or even triple check with staff ie guard, travelcenter, customer services via phone...
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    East Coast - terrible service!

    there was disruption ...... so why didnt the op ask the guard for advice as to where to change after all thats their job ..... also if the ticket had final destination as castleford then the company is duty bound toget the ticket holder to castleford via taxi .... but there again you probally...
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    East Coast - terrible service!

    you should have gone through to leeds
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    First Great Western Trainee drivers, Anyone heard back?

    yea a good yorkshire lad we will all miss him at work
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    First Great Western Trainee drivers, Anyone heard back?

    one the guys i work with starts in oxford on the 8th
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    Hatfield train crash

    i know all the crew both drivers , guard and catering
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    Advice re Anytime Fare charged for travelling on the wrong train on an Advance ticket

    what a load of tosh .... its up to the passenger to get on the right train just like hundreds of others do every day to be fair though atoc needs to make things a bit easier for people to understand their tickets maybe by printing the reservation on to the actual ticket instead of being...
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    People coming here for prosecution advice

    i know for a fact that this forum has been tagged for monitoring by a certain TOC as some of the advice been given is wrong but remember this is the internet and i dont think anything could be done about it although i have had posts removed by mods just for saying if you get caught breaking the...

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