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Recent content by markusgl1

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    Network rail guidelins for rail enthusiasts

    http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/passenger_services/guidelines_for_rail_enthusiasts.html
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    unfriendly stations

    the guys at BTM are great the only time they say anything is to check you know not to use the flash, On another note southampton central no longer issue platfrom tickets, only people with valid travel permits allowed on platform, to get around this go to millbrook station and but a £1.90 return
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    West Coast Mainline:Severe Problems

    one person dead as light aircraft crashes on the line near Stafford http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7808254.stm
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    Car park charges and VAT

    we have been told that we have to reduce our prices we charge from monday. Our It dept have had a nightmare trying to get our systems ready, they have not only had to change the prices on the screen but have had to write a progam where if some one returns something brought last week they get...
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    The 'Security Services'...

    i give my rubbish to staff one of the station cafes or a member of station staff, i've been at southampton when the luggage announcement has been in 3 languages
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    A Spot of Bother

    a senior manager at GW told me that he sees people on the station taking photos etc as and extra pair of eyes "lets face it if something isn't right you guys will soon spot it"
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    A Spot of Bother

    have had no problems at temple meads, but martyn and i did arrive by train and apart from one person asking us not use flash we were left alone, in the past the BTP have asked if they could look at my photos to see if i had caught something that had happened.
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    BAA funding cross rail

    Baa to spend £230 million on cross rail http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7707338.stm
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    Gloucester-Carlisle

    thanks :) i will have another look when get back to UK
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    Gloucester-Carlisle

    Parents want to travel from Gloucester to Carlisle best i can come up with is Glos- Birm new st £42.00, Birm new st - Carlisle £163 or £205 for both of them.
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    Online booking -rail pickup wrong station specified

    i just get FGW to send them in the post much easier for me
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    Here we go again!!

    it says in the report that its been removed from the stop and search database but doesn't mention the section 44 database, and for the record it may be on the database for only 6 years, but it will remain on file and will be brought up by any cbr check until he is 100
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    which platform

    the times i have are 06:25 into clapham on SWT and 06:38 out on Southern to Gatwick, there is another one that goes at the same time but it means a change at East Croydon as well as at Clapham, and it only gets to Gatwick a few mins earlier then the one i'm planning to catch
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    which platform

    thanks if in a rush now know where to head for
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    which platform

    heading to Gatwick via Clapham Junction early next thursday morning, what platform do the Southern trains to Gatwick use? Markus

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