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  1. craigwilson

    Flooding Disruption 31 July/1 August

    Is there a reason why it's not reopened when everything else has?
  2. craigwilson

    Trivia: Place names that you're not sure how to pronounce

    Just looked at Forvo, which is usually great for odd pronunciations - I wouldn't have guessed it's pronunciation! https://forvo.com/word/f%C3%A5gelsj%C3%B6/#sv
  3. craigwilson

    Will Manchester ever see later night departures

    Those of us in Buxton or futher out than Hazel Grove e.g Disley, New Mills etc, have to suffer hefty taxi fares - £60 for all the way to Buxton, slightly less in an Uber. An extra late train (even if just Friday and Saturday evenings only) around midnight would be very well received round these...
  4. craigwilson

    Northern bods at it as ever...

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always assumed the same reasoning is behind why you aren't (or weren't) allowed to cross through Farringdon in London on a "London Terminals" ticket - as Farringdon is the only station in the sequnce St Pancras-Farringdon-City Thameslink-Blackfriars not to be a...
  5. craigwilson

    VTWC Coach K single seats

    I'd have moved that bag into the overhead luggage bins like we are told to rather than taking up a seat with our bag :twisted: I joke of course, but as said, this kind of behaviour by staff is not on.
  6. craigwilson

    Virgin Trains ticket row

    What are the legalities of this, considering that the member of train staff would be (in this case) an employee of the prosecuting party, therefore there is a clear conflict of interest when it comes to a court case?
  7. craigwilson

    Stockport - Manchester Problem - 10-03-2016

    Broken down train at Levenshulme apparently.
  8. craigwilson

    Greatest Christmas Song of all Time

    Pogues and Kirsty definitely the best Xmas song for me. For worst song, well this one's definitely up there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3p-Zea_0pE (slightly NSFW)
  9. craigwilson

    Medical Emergencies

    As a trained first-aider myself, this excuse always annoys me. No-one has ever being successfully sued for making a mistake whilst administering first aid in good faith - if someone is potentially dying, any first aid (even if insufficient) is better than none. St John Ambulance also offer...
  10. craigwilson

    Can someone with managed HIV become a train driver.

    Surely your doc could not tell them anything out of patient confidentiality?
  11. craigwilson

    Told off by an inspector for using a combination of tickets

    As I understand it, in JamesRowden's example as the middle example is a season, and you alternate between ticket types, you could go from the origin of the first non-season, to the destination of the second one, without the train being required to call at either of the changeover points between...
  12. craigwilson

    TOCs and cancelling trains

    Indeed - those two phrases are (in theory) mutually exclusive. Could you explain further CyrusWuff?
  13. craigwilson

    Possibly left stranded by LM tonight (15/04)

    Maybe you can't ever be completely stranded in such a busy place as Lime Street station, but they did promise assistance that they reneged on.
  14. craigwilson

    EC booking bypassing seat reservation option

    I used to live there, I can help here! :D When you exit the station, if you turn right, follow the path out along the station approach, then follow the seafront road for 3-4 mins, you'll hit the clock tower, where the road forks. If you go left (following the seafront) you'll hit the Old Town...
  15. craigwilson

    E-smoking question

    It's the combination of the method of delivery and the dose that is important, and toxicity of a substance can be described using any of oral/inhaled/absorption, and these values will not necessarily be the same. To take alcohol as an example, if you inhale (aerosolised) alcohol vapour, it will...
  16. craigwilson

    Better way of choosing seats on Virgin?

    The Pendolinos, IIRC, don't display "Reserved from Stoke to Milton Keynes Central" (for example), but would instead display "Available until Stoke".
  17. craigwilson

    Delay repay on business tickets

    If a train is cancelled, and the employee therefore cannot make their meeting/visit and returns to their normal place of work - a full refund would be due from the TOC/agent (with no admin fee deducted), which employee should give to the employer if they paid for the ticket. If, say, they...
  18. craigwilson

    Northern to introduce evening peak restrictions

    jcollins, indeed that is what the map says, but as I said before, no "official" Northern announcement has taken place. Surely the restriction codes are definitive in such a situation, regardless of what a map says? Or maybe the Derbyshire/High Peak powers-that-be may have had something to say...
  19. craigwilson

    Northern to introduce evening peak restrictions

    Well it appears that evening peak as before operates from New Mills inwards, and a full post-9am off-peak operates from stations further out. As I said, no "official" announcement from Northern :roll: Let's hope they don't use this as an opportunity to try and ching the punters for some of...
  20. craigwilson

    Northern to introduce evening peak restrictions

    Sorry about bumping this thread, but I thought this was the most relevant thread for this. The restriction code for Buxton - Manchester Off-Peak Day Returns is now B3, with the off-peak ticket valid after 9am and all day after. I'd looked as he ticket office guy at Buxton pointed it out to me...

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