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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-43551015 Snap!

Happened about a fortnight ago down at Nailsea - two cows that time. It was "one hell of a bang" according to a passenger I spoke to!

I always tell everybody never throw anything away until you get home... :lol:

All calls to signallers or Control are recorded. They can be used in evidence!

Which again is irrelevant to the OP, who after boarding (legitematly or not) without a ticket, attempted to short-fare on arrival at their destination.

It would take more than that to keep me out of trouble :twisted: (Anyway, trouble comes looking for me! :( )

That will make it somewhat interesting when working a HST...

Yea, that would work. I don't know if that's the plan, though! :D

GWR Cardiff TM's will be working them. They sign 15X's. ATW drivers do some of the unt work for GWR, they might be driving them. It is usually an ATW driver on the first/last to and from Bristol (but I don't know if they sign Charfield). I don't know if any catering is planned, but the...

I have heard (but not seen in writing) there will be two units stabled in Canton, doing a Cdf-GCR-Bri 06.28 and Swansea-Gloucester-Bristol, possibly 7.28. Not sure on stops. What they return as, I have no idea. As I said, this is not 100%, just Messroom chat.

True. When I heard that, I thought if you are not assertive enough to ask somebody to move their bag off a seat to allow you to sit down, should you really be saying you can run the country?

No, Jeremy, out of his own choice, was sitting on the floor in a vestibule. Something most (but not all) passengers don't do when there is the option of sitting in a seat, like Jeremy had. The reality for the vast majority of passengers travelling Standard Class is that they get a seat.

I once worked a train which had a SPAD (by about ten foot, I believe). There was poor rail conditions and we slid past the signal. What I remember most about it was seeing the driver when we (eventually) reached the next station. The poor sod was the most miserable looking individual I have...

My interest started the day I got the job...

I will frequently work commuter trains where passengers complain they are "ram-packed" (in the carriages nearest to the station entrance) - but they are unwilling to move a few carriages along to the one with forty empty seats I announced (and told them about face-to-face)...