Recent content by thruud

Yes - two and i specified to make identity easier as there were a few female staff around, but nice try at trying to make out I am a racist... Thats the advice i needed re CCTV and i will follow up.

Unwanted physical contact in my groin area. I'm a bloke, now replay that scenario in same circumstances if you are a solo female passenger... There may be other routes, I dont know. Thats what i would welcome advice for here.

I've sent this complaint below, but I am still wondering whether to raise it with BTP or.another channel as i am so concerned at how the staff member behaved. I was polite throughout, didnt shout or swear and still cant quite believe this happened - i do understand safety, but there is...

I knew I'd become a London 'local' when I got to the platform and tutted when it was a 3 minute wait for the next tube train :-)

The knock on impact continues today. My wife was on the 1330 to Edinburgh from KGX. She arrived to find it was cancelled, and is now on the slow train at 1303, which has got 1230 and 1330 cancelled train passengers on. Its standing room only, there is no catering or water and none of the toilets...

I am very familiar with the current process. All I can recommend is that if you have begun the paperwork, you contact UKSV and ask them to how they would like it declared, noting it is an in flight prosecution. I can't tell you what decision will be reached as the process takes a wide range of...

The fact that you expected to be paid extra to do something that everyone else accepted doing as part of normal practise during a strange time. Do the Covid test at home before you come to work, as most people did, or rejig shift patterns slightly. Every other part of the public sector managed...

I think the rest of the public sector, many of whom were people like my friends daughter, training in a university medical degree to be a nurse and who found themselves flung onto wards in a totally different function to the area they'd trained in, to deliver essential care as a last resort when...

As a passenger with an interest in rail, and a public sector / military background I rarely comment here. I do recognise that in the main many parts of the rail sector have lots of genuine grounds for strike action and concerns about safety and pay. I also recognise that there is a lot of...

Something that puzzles me is why greater use isn't made of virtual simulators, rather like pilots use. These would surely be a good way to inject very realistic simulations of routes in fog/snow etc and then simulate different weather conditions and help build awareness. In the RAF simulators...

Fantastic thread, although heartbreaking to hear of the closure of the Blaise Castle narrowgauge line - many fond childhood memories there. There is definitely still line inside the more interesting bit of Box Tunnel - the ammunition depot was I believe severed from the main line some time ago...

Thanks folks, thats extremely helpful food for thought. I shall go away and do a bit more digging. Cheers!

Hi everyone and happy New Year! I’m looking for a bit of wisdom and advice here and would welcome the thoughts of posters. Essentially I’m looking for a career change into the Railway / transport sector. My background is in relatively senior Government / Armed Forces, where I’ve spent a lot of...

I'm not, and never have been a trainspotter, but as a lifelong wargamer do recognise the similar feelings of being a bit 'different'. I think acceptance is on the rise because the Internet has helped build communities and generated a groundswell of interest in previously fairly niche or obscure...

I use DMK daily and this new timetable has been an utter shambles. The station has suffered from severe overcrowding due to entrance problems and inadequate space for the sheer volume of passengers at peak time. Now its even worse. Before the changes we got something like an 0804, 0813, 0819...