Pregnancy Badges etc - I think it's worth making a "collection" thread

[Egg Centric]

Missus is entering 3rd trimester and so despite her being northern* I've been a bit cheeky and ordered the free TFL baby on board badge and had it sent to my work address darn sarf (quite odd they'd let it be sent to a Mr Egg Centric, Where Egg Centric Nominally Works, Business Park With Bee Hives, Southern Town Full Of Typically Miserable Gits Within The M25 That Desperately Pretends To Not Be London, Southland but not to a Mrs Egg Centric, Centric House, Northern Town Where People Talk To Each Other, Northland but that's by the by) .

Nevertheless there is some discrimination against Londoners up here - and quite right too - so a TFL badge isn't ideal, a neutral one would be theoretically better. And it turns out that there's quite a few rail companies doing badges. And I think it'd be good to make a thread about pregnancy provision. So I will start out like this and hopefully it can be added to:

• Great Northern - provide badge
• SWR - provide badge and "stuff"
• C2C - provide badge
• Transport for Wales - provide badge (in either language)
• TFL - see above
• Greater Anglia - give you free first class travel for last 8 weeks and provide badge
• GWR - give you a priority seat card
• Southern - give you a priority seat card
• LNWR - give you a priority seat card. WMR version here if any difference
• Northern - offer a priority seat card. NB at time of writing this page is broken - to be one of the very few people actually able to see their offering go to that webpage and in your address bar type

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• LNER - some vague sense you can pre book priority seats in advance through their assistance team

This is not exhaustive as it's 2.30 am but I would hope others can add to it.


(I'm aware of course some of the above are the same company! Thameslink for example also has badge and seat card so I assume the Southern and GN links above will too, they just not so obvious on google)


*well living northern - those who have met her know she's more southern than 99.9% of railukforum users originally...

(Edited to put in terser code, for some reason I couldn't sleep knowing the origin I gave )

 

[stadler]

Missus is entering 3rd trimester and so despite her being northern* I've been a bit cheeky and ordered the free TFL baby on board badge and had it sent to my work address darn sarf (quite odd they'd let it be sent to a Mr Egg Centric, Where Egg Centric Nominally Works, Business Park With Bee Hives, Southern Town Full Of Typically Miserable Gits Within The M25 That Desperately Pretends To Not Be London, Southland but not to a Mrs Egg Centric, Centric House, Northern Town Where People Talk To Each Other, Northland but that's by the by) .

Nevertheless there is some discrimination against Londoners up here - and quite right too - so a TFL badge isn't ideal, a neutral one would be theoretically better. And it turns out that there's quite a few rail companies doing badges. And I think it'd be good to make a thread about pregnancy provision. So I will start out like this and hopefully it can be added to:

• Great Northern - provide badge
• SWR - provide badge and "stuff"
• C2C - provide badge
• Transport for Wales - provide badge (in either language)
• TFL - see above
• Greater Anglia - give you free first class travel for last 8 weeks and provide badge
• GWR - give you a priority seat card
• Southern - give you a priority seat card
• LNWR - give you a priority seat card. WMR version here if any difference
• Northern - offer a priority seat card. NB at time of writing this page is broken - to be one of the very few people actually able to see their offering go to that webpage and in your address bar type

  javascript:

  then copy and paste

  const x=[...document.querySelector('.accordion-faq').children];x.slice(x.findLastIndex(x=>x.tagName==='H4')).forEach(x=>x.classList.remove('hide'))

  - wish I was making that up (browser will not allow you to copy paste the entire thing in to stop you against malicious people but you can trust me, I'm an egg)
• LNER - some vague sense you can pre book priority seats in advance through their assistance team

This is not exhaustive as it's 2.30 am but I would hope others can add to it.


(I'm aware of course some of the above are the same company! Thameslink for example also has badge and seat card so I assume the Southern and GN links above will too, they just not so obvious on google)


*well living northern - those who have met her know she's more southern than 99.9% of railukforum users originally...

Southeastern say that they do a badge too:

Mums to be & parents

www.southeasternrailway.co.uk

You have to contact their customer services by emailing [email protected] or calling 03453 227021 or by using the contact form to request one.

 

[Bantamzen]

• Northern - offer a priority seat card. NB at time of writing this page is broken - to be one of the very few people actually able to see their offering go to that webpage and in your address bar type

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  then copy and paste

  document.querySelectorAll('.accordion-faq h4:last-of-type ~ div').forEach(({classList:x})=>x.remove('hide'))

  - wish I was making that up (browser will not allow you to copy paste the entire thing in to stop you against malicious people but you can trust me, I'm an egg)

There is an alternative route, just in case some people are using company devices:

Priority Seating Card (Northern Rail)

The new priority seating card enables customers to simply show the card to someone sitting in a priority seat on Northern trains to show they have a need for one of these seats. The card helps to avoid embarassement and makes the person carrying more confident when they need to ask for a seat...

hdsunflower.com

From here you can request a code from Northern via email, then order one from this site.

 

[thedbdiboy]

The Greater Anglia first class upgrade only benefits anyone using the Norwich intercity services as they abolished it on all their other trains! Even some of the Norwich ones are standard class only

 

[megabusser]

The Trainline offer free badges and have a summary of different TOC policies.

Baby on Board badges and travel tips for pregnant passengers | Trainline

Browse the policies railways companies have in the UK and in Europe for pregnant passengers and read our tips for a comfortable journey while pregnant.

www.thetrainline.com

 

[Egg Centric]

The Trainline offer free badges and have a summary of different TOC policies.

Baby on Board badges and travel tips for pregnant passengers | Trainline

Browse the policies railways companies have in the UK and in Europe for pregnant passengers and read our tips for a comfortable journey while pregnant.

www.thetrainline.com

Thanks, that is pretty comprehensive, although they don't seem to know the difference between Northern and Great Northern... (!)

 

[Tetchytyke]

Tyne and Wear Metro offer badges too.

Baby on board | nexus.org.uk

Travelling can be tricky for people with a disability, elderly people, mums-to-be, parents carryi

www.nexus.org.uk

 

[johnnychips]

Erm…@Tetchytyke I think your subscript is perhaps inappropriate for the subject discussed

 

[TUC]

I do remember my wife being very visibly eight months pregnant and waiting for a bus on a hot day. Due to the heat she fainted and collapsed to the floor just as the bus arrived. The whole queue of passengers just stepped over her and got on the bus...

 

[Tetchytyke]

Erm…@Tetchytyke I think your subscript is perhaps inappropriate for the subject discussed

Maybe that’s what they should print on the badge?

 

[Krokodil]

I do remember my wife being very visibly eight months pregnant and waiting for a bus on a hot day. Due to the heat she fainted and collapsed to the floor just as the bus arrived. The whole queue of passengers just stepped over her and got on the bus...

Blimey, whereabouts in the country was that?

 

[infobleep]

I do remember my wife being very visibly eight months pregnant and waiting for a bus on a hot day. Due to the heat she fainted and collapsed to the floor just as the bus arrived. The whole queue of passengers just stepped over her and got on the bus...

That's shocking state of affairs.