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What a surprise - Cross Country and their "we don't give a s**t if someone is sitting in your reserved seat" policy - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3224978/Eight-months-pregnant-woman-forced-stand-train-half-hour-businessman-refused-seat-d-booked.html

That's interesting. A couple of years ago I was on a Crosscountry service, someone was sat in my reserved seat, the train was full. I stood in the vestibule and despite saying that I've got a reserved seat, the inspector said, "nothing I can do about it, what the hell do you expect me to do...

Bob won't be losing 2 days pay will he.....?

I lived in London for 5 years in the 1990s. I don't think I ever got decent service on the LU. Dirty, cramped trains. Rude and obnoxious ticket and gate staff. Sat in a tunnel for minutes without any clue from the driver what is happening. Yet they go off on strike, despite being on the...

Just read the font of all knowledge, Wikipedia, that seems to suggest, without citation, that TPE trains could stop there in the near future. How would this sort of route work?

Thanks David, just checked on Wiki and it's not changed much! --- old post above --- --- new post below --- I have hundreds of these photographs. Some titled some not.

One more for today.... The only info is the name of the engine, 45254 and nothing else....

The only information I have on the back of this photograph is 19 August 1972.... --- old post above --- --- new post below --- And another, the info on here is simply 28-6-74.....

Thank you, it makes sense with the other photos in that batch!

Yeah very 80s, stumped though, nowhere I recognize.

This photo was taken in 1983, but it doesn't give me a title of where this is!

If a ticket inspector attempted to penalty charge you despite your origin station being one with no ticket facilities, would that inspector be attempting fraud? It seems that it's only one way with these chaps, that "the unwashed" are always the villains and the inspectors are clean and scot-free.

From Gainsborough I tend to go via Worksop to Nottingham, just to avoid the dreadful bottleneck at Newark and the tortoise speeds around Carlton.

Interestingly, staff at Waterloo BR used to regularly turn down London Travelcards if they were purchased via London Underground, as they didn't show a BR logo. That was in the mid 90s. Despite being told to accept them by management, the gate staff regularly refused them.

Thank God I'm nowhere near Lincoln City centre this afternoon then.