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As far as I'm concerned, under the railway byelaws, mobile ticket sellers constitute an opportunity to pay before boarding, so tickets must be purchased prior to departure. Failure to do so is a criminal offence. Even if they couldn't sell the desired ticket, (which is unlikely with an Avantix...

Merseyrail wants naff all do to with the Bidston-Wrexham line, they really don't want to run services down there, and I wouldn't trust them to do so either to be honest, they have little or no experience of running services within rural/semi rural areas. I think they'd be a retrograde step...

I'm sure they do understand the "tie in", but what exactly do you want them to do? Unless they get a 3rd unit, (where from?!) they can't extend to Birkenhead North, unless linespeeds are increased, performance will remain consistently poor, fares are already extremely cheap to Liverpool, with...

Merseyrail enforce "feet on seets" with 6(8).

And this is a CRIMINAL matter, not a CIVIL matter. Personally, I think a conviction is perfectly justified here, but an out of court settlement will be at least three figures. He has committed a string of offence(s) in a relatively short period of time Imprisonment, for up to 3 months is a...

Hahaha, you're having a laugh! You think a Magistrate Court is going to fine someone just £85 for intentionally avoiding a fare? You are living in some sort of mystical land! A fine is going to be at least £200, regardless of income!

So you were unable to pay for your fare at your origin - fine. At Manchester Victoria, you had a legal responsibility to pay your fare at that location. Instead, you took an exit out of the station that would have prevented you from doing that, so subsequently you attempted to avoid paying...

So what time exactly do you want the Shrewsbury conductor to prep the train at Crewe LNWR for it to be at Llandudno for such early departure? Starting it from Llandudno involves massive diagram changes for Shrewsbury guards, Crewe drivers, Holyhead drivers and guards and Llandudno Jn guards...

Correct. Chester are the only depot that sign Cheshire Lines (via Northwich). The other diversion route is Chester-Crewe-Warrington-Manchester, but again nobody at Llandudno Junction or Holyhead sign that way either, just a handful at Chester sign via Winsford. Chester would have been the...

No. Holyhead drivers only.

Shrewsbury and Crewe depot don't sign beyond Chester, so they can't bring it to Llandudno. A Holyhead driver would have to make his way all the way to Chester just to take it ECS back to Llandudno. Llandudno Junction conductors are only being trained to cover for when Holyhead men are short...

A Shrewsbury conductor will taxi to Crewe LNWR to prep the train and, with a Crewe driver, will bring it into Chester ECS. A Holyhead driver then takes charge, with either a Llandudno Junction or Holyhead conductor. LLJ conductors are being trained up for LHCS at the moment. Shrewsbury...

The irony is that management have informed staff internally that they planned to remove the peak time extras! RMT go to the press as a result, and, all of a sudden, Merseyrail back track!

I don't think any new stock is coming soon! The 507/508 fleet is currently through the process of getting GSM-R installed, if not already completed. In addition, Merseyrail is actually cancelling the additional "peak time" extras, and there's a possibility that redundancy (or more likely...

Merseyrail refused to pay for the relevant RSP license/data feed concerning TOD, as it is ultimately of no benefit to them, just the other TOCs that serve the station. Northern already had the relevant licenses/access to TOD, and as their sister company, agreed to put a machine there instead...

Bus is over 100% slower, and very liable to delays in the peak time. Megarider Gold (Which is the only product that lets you do Cheshire>Merseyside by bus) is £26.70* Railpass (Which lets you go Chester-Liverpool, as well as all other Merseyrail routes) is £29.80 So for an extra £2.10 a week...

If a counterfeit/fraudulent copy of a ticket is NOT actually a ticket, then are you saying that an Inspector would not be permitted to withdraw it, because it belongs to the customer, and the bus/train company etc has nothing to do with it's issue/creation? PACE 19 would allow a constable to...

I am very surprised. All of the LM depots say the same things about Shrewsbury. I take it you are on different terms and conditions though, and are committed to Sundays?

Shrewsbury is being ran down at the moment. Staff leaving/retiring are not being replaced, and the depot will eventually come to an end soon enough. Bit of an unwanted depot for London Midland, as they all refuse Sunday working, hence ATW having to run the local services!

Those services are the ones currently operated by Chester based traincrew, (the only ones that sign the route). The other services either turn round very quickly in Manchester, without spending much time in Mayfield/Longsight, if any, or run using Llandudno Jn or Holyhead based traincrew (who...