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    Article referring to passengers staging "sit ins" on cancelled trains

    Years ago (thinking end of Central beginning of LM) this led to trains being cancelled at Worcester rather than Ledbury and passengers for the stations towards Hereford having a longer wait due to the risk of the job stopping at Ledbury. Not sure what happens now to be honest.
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    Avanti WC down the pan again

    I believe it was introduced as a safety thing and I guess if Virgin didn't change it then Avanti have got no chance. Maybe I was misinformed but that's what I've always been told. We had big disruption at International once with a big event on. Virgin had a set and a crew at New St going...
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    Avanti WC down the pan again

    In the past with Virgin, drivers had an agreement where they don't go over the same route twice. So your Glasgow drivers who are stuck at Preston wouldn't do a shuttle to Carlisle as they would break this agreement coming back to Preston. Any Preston drivers who would be going to Euston which...
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    Marston Vale line suspension over - FULL services start running 19/02/24

    All training is pulled during the action short of a strike. Although I guess you need the engineering side trained up before you start training runs.
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    London Northwestern Overcrowding to Northampton every Saturday Night

    Looking at the departures from Euston between 2000-2359 there are 12 departures which are all 8 cars meaning 24 units. Between 2200-2359 is it 5 departures with 10 units. Going back over timetable periods to the number of units used between 2000-2359 and then between 2200-2359 Nov 22 22...
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    TSSA accept TOC pay offer

    I think in the original offer they wanted the unions to agree to the closure of all ticket offices with no campaign to keep any open. Now they have to do a schedule 17 consultation to change the times which means the Unions and user groups can try and campaign to keep some open. The end result...
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    LNWR Stranded me in London. What should I have done?

    Ah fair enough. I would claim the delay repay from LNWR and then put a separate complaint into whoever the staff member was at Victoria as they should have resolved the issue there.
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    LNWR Stranded me in London. What should I have done?

    I can only see the 2054 from Victoria as the last service on Thursday to Ore via Haywards Heath? If that is the case departing New St at 1830 wouldn't have given you enough time?
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    December 2021 Timetable change

    You've got it in your nessage. It is to swap the units over.
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    Passenger "Mutiny" Due To Missed Stop At Swindon

    I can only guess and I have no idea if these happened in this instance but these have happened to me in the past Train too full so crew say it is unsafe to go forward so take the additional stops out to reduce the loading. Traincrew refusing the stop orders as it will occur delay to their...
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    SWR Missing out stops to make up time

    Exactly. There are lots of reasons why it could be done. However delay repay is never one of those. No controller gives a damm about delay repay.
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    RMT Ballot Scotrail Members For Strike Action

    Looking at the Aslef website Scotrail drivers are in the second year of a two year deal of 3% or Aug 2020 RPI. That might have some bearing on the RMT position. Whether that is right or not I have no idea.
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    LNR new WCML timetable, May 2019 (in open data feeds)

    There are a few reasons why you might want a train to run early. Maybe you are missing a member of train crew so you grab someone who is passing on an earlier train and get them to work the service instead However it might be preferable to make sure the service out of Euston runs on time so...
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    WMTrains livery and station branding

    The building with the crosses is the Cube at the back of the Mailbox.
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    Derailment near Watford Junction (16 September 2016)

    They left for Kings Heath last Monday
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    New St-Milton Keynes season ticket

    Yes she can get a 16-25 railcard. I will get her to work out how many days she will actually be there and work it out. Thank you all for your help. Jim
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    New St-Milton Keynes season ticket

    Morning, I have been asked to help out a friend whose daughter is starting an apprenticeship in Milton Keynes. She requires a season ticket from New St to Milton Keynes. An WMT only is £3440 a year and an any permitted is £5076 I can't see a way of making the WMT only season any cheaper. I...
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    Abellio wins West Midlands franchise

    The number 27 single decker goes through every 20min during the day. Guess one explanation is the driver thought he was in a single decker...
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    Tube strike off but no Chiltern trains at Wembley Stadium after 4pm 05/10

    From https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-strike?intcmp=35779 LM were only going to run three services northbound after the game anyway at 2203, 2217 and 2253 so if the station is closed these will not run

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