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This thread really has gone to the Dogs - it's really going against the Grain.

All wight, that's enough ;) .

Skegvegas trains don't have seat reservations, do they?

The Train Manager grade is ex-MML, and Senior Conductors ex-Central, hence the difference not only in name but also earnings and T&Cs (not sure where £15k comes from though!).

I dunno, it's not a concept I've come across on the railway...!

Ah, I love a bit of consistency ;) .

EMT staff have a separate pass ("Rail Group Travel Pass") for travel on SWT services - don't the SWT chaps get something similar then?

There's a 29' engineering allowance shown here between Ashchurch and Abbotswood Jn, although the booked route beyond there is still main line. Possibly Single Line Working?

Mind how you go with booking offices that probably don't normally deal with sleeper bookings - it took us an awful lot of research, explanation and correction to get the correct PRIV discounted travel ticket + berth (which worked out around the same cost as the equivalent berth reservation to be...

From a performance point of view, it probably wouldn't be ideal to lose all opportunity to pass trains south of Barrhill, but I'm sure that the cost of keeping all four boxes open is substantial - given the choice between keeping the line open with further simplified signalling (for a modest...

How does anyone know that the outward ticket hasn't been used? If the ticket machine prints the time of collection, then fair enough, it's possible to deduce that it wouldn't have been possible to use it, but otherwise there's no difference between an unused outward portion and a used outward...

Can't argue with that! I'm sure an ordinary punter travelling from New St to International - especially the infrequent travellers who probably make up the majority of those travelling to a major exhibition - would probably not even know the destination of their train, let alone the operator or...

That sounds like the most likely problem - even though the punters in question did point it out to him, he still insisted! Even if there were seats at the other end of SC, they'd have to fight through various crowded vestibles (and presumably the SC saloons had standees right through too), which...

Wasn't there to see it myself! It does seem unusual though, especially for such a packed train. I wonder whether the chap targetted them for just that reason? Old Timer - what you say is entirely true, of course, which is why I agree entirely with the principle of classing FC vestibules as...

I know someone who, as part of a group of three, was travelling from New Street to Birmingham International for the recent Crufts exhibition. As might be expected, the train that they caught (VWC) was very crowded, but most of the punters were probably travelling no further than International...

But Newark to Peterborough is a valid route in the routeing guide, so surely a through train would be valid over that portion, regardless of the actual booked route?

Does the fact that it's a direct train from Newark to Peterborough via Lincoln (well, I assume from Ajax's post that it is!) change anything?

Really? If a train's advertised to terminate at Church Stretton, then I wouldn't have thought that anyone (excepting anyone who's insensible with drink) would be expecting to use it to get to Shrewsbury. It'd be rather like getting on a train to Chathill and then complaining that it hasn't taken...

Almost certain that SBJ doesn't have the facilty to 'switch out' (it wouldn't make too much sense to have one provided in any case, given the variety of movements) - and in any case, that wouldn't help the empties off this working to shunt away inside! Equally, I can't imagine that the unit...