Hellfire
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- 14 Dec 2012
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I was making my way up the ramp to Platform 4 for the Euston service from the subway at Preston yesterday morning to find five VT staff with a table who were checking tickets of passengers boarding trains.
They told me the exercise had started last week. Ive been using Preston for the last five years and, to the best of my knowledge, this has never happened before.
These were definitely VT staff, not the Northern Rail RPIs who sometimes blockade the exits. I have never travelled on a Euston service where a full ticket check wasn't carried out by the Train Manager. I don't know if they were doing this on other platforms. This would just have affected 3 and 4.
I asked whether they might be putting barriers in an the team leader just said 'you never know'
They told me the exercise had started last week. Ive been using Preston for the last five years and, to the best of my knowledge, this has never happened before.
These were definitely VT staff, not the Northern Rail RPIs who sometimes blockade the exits. I have never travelled on a Euston service where a full ticket check wasn't carried out by the Train Manager. I don't know if they were doing this on other platforms. This would just have affected 3 and 4.
I asked whether they might be putting barriers in an the team leader just said 'you never know'