Recent content by exbrel

a few years ago so cannot remember from where, but to Milton Keynes, but the bus driver would not accept my retired staff travel card, and i had to pay £5, so when i got off i enquired at MK enquires and was refunded...

a few years ago the Derby - Crewe service was eith er a 2 or 1 car, i was on i think a 4 or 5 pm from Derby, and it was a 1 car service. It was reasonably full leaving Derby with holiday makers plus suitcases, then we arrived at Uttoxeter after the races had finished, those wanting to get on...

back in th late 70's early 80's i was waiting at my local station to go work, and a man came on pulling a small trolly with a foot long piece of tram track. The local council were re-laying the road and found the tracks, so being nosey i asked him he said he collected the different types of...

for me at the moment its if my train is still running, and arrives on time...

yes that is true, but things were not all rosey either back then, and think on what we lose now you present day workers wont have either. As regards the triple lock, yes thats a safe guarding bonus, but with the tax threshold not being increased any increase we get, go's and our pension in most...

with regards to your first sentence, are you serious? as to the second, being one no not every thing, but having worked 50yrs, and payed tax and NI for them 50yrs i had that silly idea i would be looked after for the rest of my time, but apparently not under "caring labour"...

i mentioned that replying to - 2. If the rail staff are so unhappy with their current terms and conditions, why don’t they just go out and get another job rather than making life difficult for fare-paying passengers? which was a big risk considering the extent of the US airline industry, but...

no it wont, a different time, but it sorted the controllers action and showed the other unions what might happen...

being devils advocate, Reagans action in 1981...

Modern Railways, Rail or Steam Railway...

i assume the t/m would contact someone or the next practicable station to "receive a suspect package, and have someone there to meet it. From what i've been told to do in these circumstances is not to touch it, switch all mobiles off, and move people away from its vicinity. On a train i know...

but isn't this a negative action, if God forbid it was something not very nice, and it did do something, at the enquiry the question would be "if nobody claimed it after repeated announcements, why was it left/or moved to somewhere else. instead of offloading at he earliest opportunity". What is...

thanks all for your replies, appreciated...

hello, a bit of advice please, the wife is planning on visiting a friend in Swindon on July 19th from Swansea, and has asked me about times, on the GWR site its warning about delays etc because the Severn tunnel is having some maintenance. Now she's asking if its worth going, what delays...

a couple of years ago i was going to London from Stoke and i found a "AVAILABLE" seat as did 2 others, we stopped at i think Lichfield or Rugby. People got on and 1 of the others who had boarded at Stoke found that his seat was now reserved, he did vacate the seat but there was a "comunication"...