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A reminder that with guest accounts, payment cardholder name and potentially cardholder address are visible to the merchant (the travel agent) and this could be shared with the operator.

Recently finding (from a union perspective) companies are totally unable to sack staff considered a nuisance, so find trivial matters such as wearing a hat at the wrong angle ie some nonsense gross misconduct charge. The UK tribunal system should all over this to send a clear message to...

Just another snippet from another ongoing thing. The PTE authorised a response stating "Merseyrail administer themselves, the PTE has no involvement." Think this needs the grown ups to start managing their franchise as the local authority run PTE are as delinquent as the crooked operator.

Although outside the EU customs & VAT area, Spain's EU Canary Islands have Bonoficacion schemes where tourist pay four times the price/fare of locals. A €2 bus ticket costs €8 for tourists in some places, same with Fred Olsen Ferries and inter island airlines. The EU Solvit department didn't...

You just can't write this comedy of errors on this railway :lol: :lol: :lol: 2018: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5665889/Northern-Rail-boss-slammed-furious-tirade-aggressive-tweets.html My word.

Given the spate of incidents they certainly should be closed and a link path built (on the land side of the tracks) between the Ty Gwyn & Lyons parks, still giving them the option to walk to the two existing bridges, east and west of those sites. If the businesses wish to chip in to part-fund a...

(0920ish) I hear the boards this morning froze and platform numbers were unable to be displayed.

Little development. I have heard there may be an audit of both the operator Merseyrail and the PTE Merseytravel, looking at how many passengers were penalty fared, prosecuted or made to pay settlements for failing to produce a TOD ticket bought online; this is to gauge the disparity between MEL...

Rumour has it the RDG's staff travel app (RSTL) is also offering e-tickets for a sample journey originating on Merseyrail. Infact, there was no option of collect at station offered. It's a farce, and the gutless PTE should sack the contract operator.

Well the railway's last Modernisation was all ticket offices closed, all guards fired and the railway descending to the seventh circle of hell, but Grant Shapps, the Mail & the Express said it was absolutely fine. Tis a terrible choice of phrase for any negotiation or press release.

They should run Manchesters hourly on to Swansea, whilst anything coming from the west of that should instead be tied in with services to Wrexham / Holyhead / Chester etc. Yet another totally rammed 2-car 197 on Cardiff-Manchester on Saturday (1W16, 1311 arrival at Man Picc) with 20-30 being...

TFW doing the same sending 2-car sets on 3 hour journeys to Manchester with one toilet that locks itself out. The solution is retrofitting bioreactor toilets. They becoming proven in Europe and only require water, and empty only water onto the track with the err... compostable brickettes being...

Passengers at Euston DO NOT move slowly anywhere, it's a scientific impossibility for them. As soon as the doors open, this would result in worse squishing into the door than 30 pensioners fighting their way on the 9:30¼ Sheil Road circular. Only sensible solution is more platforms, longer dwell...

This would just move the (a-la 28 days later) lunacy of the running down the ramps to (something resembling the pub scene from Shaun of the Dead) around the train's doors, just as dangerous.

We did end up on Virgin Australia 18 months ago after a biblical* freight derailment at Geelong blocked the Adelaide line for several weeks, although we organised it ourselves. *It really was... like a huge pyramid of derailed containers.

The washouts (not landslips) are caused by water run-off or streams. These occur very quickly and take the ballast with them often leaving the rails in mid air, or wash ballast over the railhead. The failing embankments are caused by rotting tree roots. These cause serious sinks in the line and...

Truly shocking. Regardless of any magic exemption from following the rules proper TOCs have to follow, this kind of situation begs the question should Open Access tocs be allowed to run operate at all in the UK? I've seen more trustworthy rail operations in northern africa than them.

Just checking the Lime Street Merseyrail Concourse - their Scheidt & Bachmann ticket machine was still on tonight at 2330 at the close of play, very much in use.

3 reasonably priced Australian day trains which were okay... Brisbane - Sydney (14 hours, daily) sometimes best to pick this up at Casino Station, 8.30ish to avoid the mega early start) Sydney - Melbourne (12 hours, daily) Some dual gauge, interesting line Melbourne - Adelaide (13 hours, twice...

I think our passenger has been reasonably clear, suggesting this relates to the Merseyrail-managed low level ticket office downstairs on the Merseyrail concourse. In fairness, the ticket office has been left locked up & unopened a couple of times when the Merseyrail station has just been opened...