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[.n];3099979 said:
Thanks for that mate- but no jelly beans for me
some bloke
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South Western Railway said:
https://www.southwesternrailway.com/contact-and-help/faqs
To me, the most natural meaning implies that any media reports saying you have to use the passes by the time your existing gold card expires are incorrect.
SWR have already committed to a second staff member on all trains. so striking over door operations etc probably wouldn't enjoy widespread public support anyway, but as you say judging by the victory RMT achieved at GWR when measured against their original proposals, I can't see the union enduring too many sleepless nights. .
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Fairly trivial points, but here we go:-
1) As a passenger, I was given free jelly beans at Waterloo this morning. Ingredients include Spirulina (a form of algae 3.5 billion years old) and shellac, from which 78 rpm records were made, but there's no mention of gelatin.
2) Free water on the 14.54 Waterloo to Weymouth - the guard invited everyone to take some if they wished.
3) Free ice creams at Basingstoke. I received mine on the stairway, but there were four members of staff distributing them to passers-by just outside the station building.
4) The PIS on board the class 444 that formed the 0939 from Basingstoke welcomed us aboard "this SWR service", but after Clapham Junction it became a South West Trains service to Waterloo only. It also encouraged visits to the South West Trains website.
5) Guards continue to refer to South West Trains, though I'm not surprised as they must have been saying that for years and for thousands of times. I remember when National Express took over East Coast, staff found it hard not to refer to GNER in on-board announcements.
1) As a passenger, I was given free jelly beans at Waterloo this morning. Ingredients include Spirulina (a form of algae 3.5 billion years old) and shellac, from which 78 rpm records were made, but there's no mention of gelatin.
2) Free water on the 14.54 Waterloo to Weymouth - the guard invited everyone to take some if they wished.
3) Free ice creams at Basingstoke. I received mine on the stairway, but there were four members of staff distributing them to passers-by just outside the station building.
4) The PIS on board the class 444 that formed the 0939 from Basingstoke welcomed us aboard "this SWR service", but after Clapham Junction it became a South West Trains service to Waterloo only. It also encouraged visits to the South West Trains website.
5) Guards continue to refer to South West Trains, though I'm not surprised as they must have been saying that for years and for thousands of times. I remember when National Express took over East Coast, staff found it hard not to refer to GNER in on-board announcements.
centraltrains
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https://twitter.com/SW_Help/status/900033419312345088
Seems very funny!
"#InformationSWT Our website is down, IT are aware and working to fix it ASAP. You can see train information here - http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/advanced "
Surely National Rail would be the first place for TOCs to redirect to?
Linking to advance is a tiny bit of a concern though...
Seems very funny!
"#InformationSWT Our website is down, IT are aware and working to fix it ASAP. You can see train information here - http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/advanced "
Surely National Rail would be the first place for TOCs to redirect to?
Linking to advance is a tiny bit of a concern though...
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Surrey Mirror said:
http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/is-so...e-the-answer/story-30490504-detail/story.html
To be fair, if a journalist has the detail wrong, it may not be entirely their fault. By chance the SWR website was slow to load, so I loaded the Google Cache version from this morning, which has different text.
https://webcache.googleusercontent....ntact-and-help/faqs+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ukSouth Western Railway said:
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centraltrains
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That tweet has now disappeared.
New Tweet: https://twitter.com/SW_Help/status/900036179428392960
"#InformationSWR Our website is down, IT are aware and working to fix it ASAP. You can see train information here - http://*******/2v2KonK "
They correct the hashtag from SWT to SWR and it still goes to real time trains advance just with a bitly redirect
(Note: Any reason why the link sensors?!)
U-Bahnfreund
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That tweet has now disappeared.
https://twitter.com/SW_Help/status/900036179428392960 There's a new tweet now also linking to the advanced search. Why should that be concern though?
StephenHunter
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SWR have already committed to a second staff member on all trains. so striking over door operations etc probably wouldn't enjoy widespread public support anyway, but as you say judging by the victory RMT achieved at GWR when measured against their original proposals, I can't see the union enduring too many sleepless nights. .
Last I checked the RMT is opposed to any further DOO/DCO and wants it rolled back if possible.
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The guard of my train yesterday evening referred to it as a "South Western" service. He also said to change at Feltham for the "express coach link to Heathrow Airport". The express bus (T123 I think it was) disappeared nearly 20 years ago!
NRE was (is?) Down which would explain that. Some good lateral thinking there if you ask me!
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Although this makes sense, techincally it is breaching the terms of service on realtimetrains because they are a commercial train company.
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They're not using the service, only referring to it.
[.n];3099979 said:
Not the good ones:
All Jelly Belly jelly beans are: Gluten Free, Gelatine Free, Dairy Free, Peanut Fee, Certified OU Kosher.
https://www.jellybelly.co.uk/faqs/ingredients-lists
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They correct the hashtag from SWT to SWR and it still goes to real time trains advance just with a bitly redirect
(Note: Any reason why the link sensors?!)
Offtopic, but AIUI the forum's underlying software (vbulletin) doesn't allow "URL shorteners", as an anti fraud measure.
Fiyero
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My Gold Card runs out in a month, I have 4 free tickets left! does this mean I don't need to rush to use them if I buy another Gold Card (I wouldn't get the benefit of the pure Gold Card without the free tickets but if I don't have to rush to use them it would still be worth me renewing for one more year before deciding what to do after that)
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As long as the gold card is on a SWR route you'll still be allowed to use your SWT free tickets.
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On their customer forum they stated that the free tickets need to be used before the expiry date of your current season. Mine expires in December so clearly I need to use or lose my five tickets by then.
Another confusion is that Delay Repay is stated as only applying for tickets bought from 4th September onwards. This would therefore mean I will not be eligible for Delay Repay until I renew my season.
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Fiyero
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So, clear as mud then!
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from SWR Customer Forum said:
https://forum.southwesternrailway.com/updates-and-news/f/announcements/16/free-weekend-tickets
That quotation is from the older FAQ text, while the new text seems less compatible with the SWR reply above.
It is not clear how the SWR reasoning here is justified by the terms of the original offer, which does not require using the passes up each year.
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As I can't find the original full terms & conditions of the cards, I don't know how correct that may be. However, previously existing ones could be stacked up and used the next year. As was posted on the SWR Forum & the SWR FAQ page, https://www.southwesternrailway.com/contact-and-help/faqs
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TT-ONR-NRN
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If you buy a GWR gold card do you get free passes with them?
The terms of the free tickets state that they could be withdrawn at any time. It will be fair to say this covers them.
I would expect that you only will get issue using them after 19 August 2018.
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