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Sorry to drag these quotes up from Saturday. The above quotes make me wonder why anyone would choose to go from Liverpool to Euston via Birmingham when they could change at Stafford... especially in the days before there was a cheap through train.
Have you not been reading the news? The...
There is some stabling space for 12 car trains but nowhere near enough. Grove Park takes 12 in every road. Orpington takes 12 in all bays and the sidings but is used to keep quite a few 8 car 700s in.
Only takes 10, and it's very tight. Desperately needs units with SDO.
Cannon Street and...
I know a bloke who went there. Earliest start about 0430, latest finish just the right side of midnight I believe. They do Nottingham, Sheffield, Corby, Derby etc. HSTs and meridians. Electric work coming soon. He likes it.
This is an observation on the issue in general. I don't know the specific circumstances of the WMT staff shortages...
Staffing levels and rosters across the industry should be robust enough to cover all annual leave and a reasonable amount of sickness and other absence (training, union release...
As I understand it, once the sub-surface lines have gone fully ATO it is planned to restructure the train operator grade with differentiation between "Train Operator" and "Automatic Train Operator" in a fashion similar to that used in the stations restructuring.
If memory serves, the reason...
For what it's worth, I think there is a big difference between someone asking a guard if they can get on their train for the odd leisure journey and someone knowingly misusing their travel facilities on a daily commute and trying to avoid detection.
Can you please elaborate on what you mean by...
Ok, it looks like I'm going to have to spell this out...
I understand what the rules are. I also am aware that there is an unspoken and unofficial understanding between railway staff. In my experience most railway staff will permit other railway staff to use their travel facilities where they...
I have to agree that the T&Cs of a TFL staff pass are pretty straightforward and not confusing at all. Valid on all TFL services and very little else.
I remember once travelling from Norwood Junction to Honor Oak Park with a friend who had a TFL nominee pass from her husband. She could get the...
29+8=37
If annual leave was 37 days plus another 8 for bank holidays then the total would be 45, but it's not. Don't get het up about annual leave bank holidays anyway as on the railway you'll find yourself working most of them.
What a lot of people do with CVs and cover letters is just type a load of buzzwords related to the job at the bottom of the page and then change the colour of the text to white so anyone reading it can't see them but a computerised sift will pick them up and it will pass. Apparently this...
People with screaming children are fully entitled to buy first class tickets too. Being in first class does not entitle anyone to not have to put up with fellow passengers. Personally I have no problem with children being children, I find selfish a***holes speaking loudly on mobile phones or...
HeX is a two-bob TOC that has been ripping people off for years. Even their drivers only went there to get their key and then legged it as soon as they could. No sympathy whatsoever for them.