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...Beaker, he is on work experience with South West Trains helping out guards, so surely he has to shadow a guard. He helps a guard do his duties, so therefore he'd need to go in the rear cab, surely?
It's quite clearly the rear cab, and as he is on Work Experiance it'd be fairly safe to assume that he was being accompanied by someone fairly competant!