Recent content by seagull

For the amount of work that Health Care Assistants do, for example, usually non-stop other than two short unpaid breaks in a 12.5 hour shift, I would be very supportive should those workers ballot for action to try and increase pay. As I am for others that wish to achieve the same. Let's try and...

Perhaps you should understand how negotiations work. Ask high, offered low, meet in the middle somewhere.

Not sure how you "know" this to be the case: as in my experience there are numerous occasions where the platform or on-train staff genuinely have no idea what is causing a delay.

Quite. She was an awful and wooden actress on the "Suits" US legal drama and so it's no surprise that she was unable to act the role of princess either.

I think it's some kind of Railforums word game: every thread has to have the word "Takt" somewhere in it... :lol: Looking forward to trying the 197s myself: I find the 158s horribly claustrophobic especially when busy, the 175s are much more pleasant, so will be interesting to compare...

I won't disagree with that assessment of the cause, it is indeed incompetence, but as the OP didn't mention geography, it is relevant to the question posed, and the likely reason that the UK is indeed a location where it is "more difficult", because of that lack of joined up thinking.

Yes, it is more difficult here compared to at least some other countries. See 2nd paragraph of post #50.

Well you have just made an assumption that @skyhigh is able bodied, as well as generalised about able bodied people making assumptions. Stones and greenhouses, and all that. Besides which: makes it fairly clear that the OP is in the unenviable position of having to only rely on expression to...

Maybe a good idea (and maybe even essential in the potential not-too-distant future if behaviour descends to the point that damage is being done not just to TfW/Avanti reputation but also to the trains themselves.) In the example I had - I was in the front carriage of three, full and standing so...

Experienced an absolutely awful journey on North Wales Coast recently, where the family (and friends) from hell got on, and decided to use a quite large bluetooth speaker to blast music at deafeningly high volume on a full and standing train. Kids were crying, dogs barking, but they were having...

For them (or whatever pronoun they choose) maybe, but not for females who would rather use a facility that they can be guaranteed no men will use.

Reminiscent of Peter Leppard's thoughtless comment during the Arriva Trains Wales 2011 driver industrial action: Quite a few of Wales's trains were seen shortly afterwards with milk bottles in the cab window...

If my memory is correct the 158s were still in BR Regional Railways livery (with the logo removed) but never had any Virgin branding or livery externally, and even inside nothing much changed, just the coach end posters. As an earlier poster said, they were indeed pretty manky. :D

Yes, and a Birmingham-Portsmouth-Manchester as well with a 158.

The English one... (sorry, it's been a long day ) :p