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Correction Matt: Network Rail "Alliance" staff get free travel on SWT but no "Priv" discounts.

I am assuming that this was on Bravo or Sky 3? Both seem to be showing the series a lot at the moment.

Does someone have a spare needle and thread? This conversation reminds me of the typical city commuter who thinks that a ticket is their right to act like a god and its cracking me up. Thank god I am not a bellmonkey anymore! For all the Guard/Ticket Inspector/TTI/conductor would know; your...

Kudos to Southern, especially when I doubt they have been fully staffed all week because of the weather.

I completely agree with your comments about the requirement to manully overide the fares. I had to on occasions with my Avantix (and incidntally, never got pulled up for it). I will stand by my comments on the thread though; and not knowing the original poster, nor the majority of members on...

I would hope that people think that the questions I have asked are for a perfectly valid purpose and for a perfectly valid reason. We can rule out routing and peak ticket issues (although the most expensive combination is still not near £44) and other options such as did the original poster...

Hmmmmmm Something just does not add up to me here. There are a number of circumstances that add up to a larger overall event and I do have quite a lot of alarm bells going off over the 10 minutes it took me to decypher some of the posts in here. Lets start with my interpretation of the...

I was under the impression that the "warranty" agreement has expired now and SWT must pay maintainance charges to Seimens (although they are tied to take it from them)

Lets take a look at a few of the replies that our friend received form other websites: Firstly...... daneth's justification: and his responses: Classic.... lack of grammer, atrocious spelling, not even proud enough to UK the uk..... oh and he called us all train spotters!

Not everyone knows that the only Voyager in Euston goes to North Wales....

I did not think so either SWT Driver. I take it they are using the crossover on the London side of the station as a shunt neck?

I have to agree in some respects, while having no knowledge in others. NR Recruitment and the admin teams surrounding it are getting rather slow and dire. While Front line managers (IE LOM's and MOM's) are bearing thebrunt of it and trying to keep things stable and ticking over, Manchester...

This is the point I was try to make (quite badly). There could be a million reason why the ticket was sold... SWT and EMT are under the same ownership, maybe the T/O may have been of the (incorrect) understanding that EMT and SWT operate the same evening peak restrictions.

It would be unlikely that the Havant T/O would know all restrictions for cross-London travel and therefore sold theticket they felt was most appropriate. SWT of course, have no evening peak. It dows show however, the shortfalls of the current ticketing system in place.

I suspect that they have to go for crew familisation so that the drivers can take it on thetest track! Although the controls may be similar to other classes, there may be some quirksor other subtle changes.... like how to adjust the aircon.:roll: