Recent content by PBarnesHST

Just out of interest is it going to be a big lift to get the normal timetable back on track? By that I mean are a lot of trains/crews displaced by the temporary timetable, or has the reduced service generally meant that most of the stock and drivers are in depots ready and waiting?

Status on TfL site has changed to ‘an earlier signal failure at Stockwell’ and has removed the please avoid the northern line message

What are the bats for if the dispatch is all down to the train operator, if you don't mind me asking?

Does Leicester count since you can go south via Market Harborough or go north via Melton Mowbray and Corby

“He or She will then sell you the appropriate ticket“ Will they really…? I thought guards on SWR didn’t perform revenue duties…?

*insert joke about a quailcard*

Protecting you, or watching you?

I'm willing to be wrong on this, but they're on all tube stock no? They're on the 2009 stock and I'm sure they're on the 1995 too, set into the panel that would be obscured by the passenger's legs

I found out yesterday that while they can't check cards in real time, when their terminal scans your card, it puts another zero-value transaction on there like the transaction that happens when you touch in in the first place. Then, overnight, when the balances are reconciled and the day's fares...

Having worked in customer service for the best part of a decade (make no mistake I’m not trying to claim any stripes for that) I can tell the stress and anxiety almost definitely originates from the expectation of greater goodwill that didn’t materialise. Frankly I don’t see the issue either...

Do Wimbledon 6 and 7 have anything scheduled or is it just ad-hoc stops

Even supermarkets like Sainsburys and M&S allow their employees to nominate someone who lives with them to receive the same discount as them

What are your thoughts on this article from the Evening Standard? Article below

https://www.citymetric.com/transport/romford-upminster-romford-again-ode-transport-london-s-most-obscure-branch-line-4732?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app "Great news! The Romford-Emerson Park-Upminster line will be getting new train stock. One four-carriage Crossrail-style train will ferry...

I disagree. St Pancras and other stations have complimentary wheelchairs available to passengers. You can just as easily ask if this equipment really has a positive effect on peoples lives and help them use the train? Or if it is just a way of getting a bit of cheap publicity, but yet very few...