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  1. Inspector999

    Urgent TOPS Requests

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    Routings from Rochester to Zone 6

    I hold a Annual Season Ticket (Travelcard Gold Card): CHATHAM and LONDON ZONES 1-6 (PLUS HIGH SPEED). Am I right in thinking that this is available for all the shortest routes from Chatham to the various Zone 6 Boundary stations - obviously valid on HS1 to St Pancras, also frequently used and...
  3. Inspector999

    New ThamesLink/ branded TVMs at St Albans City

    I still can't get my head around the limits on the range of tickets / stations that modern TVMs have. I can well remember that, during an idle moment at Annecy station in France back in 1990, I could get the machine to issue tickets from a distant station and do seat reservations on the TGV, and...
  4. Inspector999

    Trivia: UK's Squeakiest Ear Piercing Station

    Strood - and it has some nice new flats nearby too! That said St Pancras is far worse - but no flats!
  5. Inspector999

    Worst lines for cancellations

    Rail head treatment is largely done by water jetting. A number of treatment trains follow quite complex diagrams during the day and during the night to cover priority routes and high risk areas. One of biggest cause of delay isn't loss of adhesion for traction/braking but where the...
  6. Inspector999

    Caledonian Sleeper discussion

    It's two or three years since I have direct experience of the sleepers and there were numerous fault issues then. To my mind one of the key problems was that the sets only visited their home depot (Inverness) once or twice a fortnight. Many times faults would be examined and not "for repairs at...
  7. Inspector999

    St Pancras - Kent - St Pancras

    Yes it is +High Speed. As for breaking the journey not an attempt to obtain a lower fare, more likely an attempt to have lunch - but I take the point you are making.
  8. Inspector999

    St Pancras - Kent - St Pancras

    Some of the High Speed services from St Pancras to Kent continue round the circuit and return to St Pancras. The continuation is shown via a footnote to the relevant services in Table 194. e.g. 0825 weekdays departure from St Pancras goes out to Dover Priory (arr 1047) via Faversham - note B...
  9. Inspector999

    the Increasingly Frustrating Thameslink

    Try not to get too worked up about this there are far more important things to get angry about! It was a new idea for this bit of railway - worth trying but it hasn't worked because unlike other places with "next fastest trains too ..." such as London Victoria, it didn't have the full stopping...
  10. Inspector999

    Excess or full fare

    I hold an annual season ticket Rochester to London Terminals Route Plus High Speed. 1st question: Occasionally I start and finish my day in Snodland and change at Strood. Outward travel is in the morning peak (0714 departure or 0814 departure) returning the same day in the evening...
  11. Inspector999

    Season ticket issue on train??

    Thanks everyone Already have a photocard - now I can rest easy and have an extra 30 minutes in bed in the morning.
  12. Inspector999

    Season ticket issue on train??

    Probably been asked before but I can't come up with suitable search terms to find it! Where there are no ticket issuing facilities at the originating station can the conductor/ticket inspector issue a weekly season ticket on the train? Thanks
  13. Inspector999

    Glasgow Central to Derby Staff Travel

    Do you work for ScotRail? If you do you could use your free travel on the sleeper from Westerton (or whichever of the Highlander stops in the Glasgow area is most convenient) to Crewe and then onwards from there for a tad over £6 return. The outward connection is just over half an hour, the...
  14. Inspector999

    Quiet Rail

    Walked over the Medway viaduct this weekend. safe to say I couldn't hear the trains for all the motorway racket. But a mile or so to the east with HS1 between me and the M2 a slightly different story: constant traffic drone and inaudible Javelins but the ageing Eurostars sounded like a jet...
  15. Inspector999

    First Scotrail Sleeper hosts - EUSTON

    Well thanks in no small part to the help and advice from members of this forum, I have been offered a job!! :D Medical on Monday should be OK, so all I have to worry about is the Scottish Criminal records office having something on me that even I don't know about!!
  16. Inspector999

    Southeastern Jobs - anyone ever seen any??

    Almost any operating role - just to get into the railways, I'm retiring from the police at the end of the month - and would describe myself as a very experienced operational manager - just lacking in the industry specific knowledge. I'll have my pension (unfortunately my wife will get the lump...
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    Southeastern Jobs - anyone ever seen any??

    I am currently looking to start a career in the railways and live near Maidstone. I have been trawling the various company jobs/careers sites for months and have a number of applications in the melting pot. However I have not seen a single job advertised by Southeastern. Does anyone know...
  18. Inspector999

    First Scotrail Sleeper hosts - EUSTON

    Just got the invite to Euston for interview for next week. I hope the rest of you have two.
  19. Inspector999

    Break of Journey - off peak ticket

    Heaven knows what I was thinking!! Longsdon!! Never heard of it. What I meant to say was Aberystwyth to Chichester via London with a break at Gatwick. (the ticket is off peak return route via Birmingham with 16-24 rail card) Anyway that isn't happening because it's not allowed - he's...

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