Abellio Conductors.

[tsr]

If you're sensible and cash up as you go along, pre cash up as it were, it takes no time. During the last leg of my shift I tidy up and count my notes and coins and make sure all my non issue etc paperwork is done, any warrants and vouchers etc are completed and so on. I then make a note on the job card of what I have and check it's right or how far it's wrong (we have some leeway). Then if I do a ticket it's just a case of amending what I take in and give out as change. Then after the last stop it gets scribbled down, shoved into appropriate bags and the machine is logged off. It takes about 2 minutes. Any surplus change I bag up well in advance during the day. It's just about being organised.

Be grateful you're not at one of those depots which only takes significant revenue on the last leg of many of its jobs... which usually happens to be the stopping service which also always runs late...

 

[LowLevel]

Be grateful you're not at one of those depots which only takes significant revenue on the last leg of many of its jobs... which usually happens to be the stopping service which also always runs late...

We have jobs like that - I've just got used to being very fast and taking the position that I count everything once, don't go back over and over it, and if it's a bit wrong the guys in the ticket machine lobby recount everything anyway (through a slightly odd historic local agreement we aren't technically responsible, at my depot only, for any errors unless it's suspected fraud is in evidence).

3 round trips to Worksop on a Saturday is one of our jobs - well over 200 ticket transactions and £1000 on the machine (fares mostly £2-£7) going until the last minute is usual!

 

[6Gman]

I think Abellio guards and staff are great.
was the ticket machine on the blink?
In fact thinking about it, there could be a 100 or more reasons

I was on an EMT train where the Guard was unable to secure the door to the rear cab so it was despatch from rear vestibule and no revenue work.

Reason No. 97.

 

[BestWestern]

I was on an EMT train where the Guard was unable to secure the door to the rear cab so it was despatch from rear vestibule and no revenue work.

Reason No. 97.

If it was a Sprinter there isn't a great deal of 'security' offered even when they work!

Reason No 98; responding urgently to postings on RailUK!

 

[grumblingalong]

If it was a Sprinter there isn't a great deal of 'security' offered even when they work!

Reason No 98; responding urgently to postings on RailUK!

Reason No 99: Class 170 cab door lock being so good no T-key would open it

 

[tsr]

Reason No 99: Class 170 cab door lock being so good no T-key would open it

Reason No. 100: Conductor required to be in cab monitoring driver's side external door after platform staff report that it may be opening by itself.