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In the north where I worked only a few of the major stations were barriered, so most wouldn't pay at all if the guard hadn't challenged them on board. Advance tickets actually reduced this quite a bit for longer journeys, but also opened up another revenue stream as it was common for people to...

Used to be a guard on that route and most people changed at York coming out of Scarborough, if it does get separated would be nice if they could get a station back in on the east side of york round strensal area to ease traffic congestion...highly unlikely though.

Bit late to this thread, however might be able to provide a bit of input .. I worked as a guard for both arriva and transpennine over 10 years. I always kept a note of my takings for commission purposes but it also brings up an interesting point. Every year I took roughly 10k more in revenue...

I'd give it 25 mins from the hotel to get to the training centre if walking. I found the google maps prediction a bit close to the wire on the first day. It's further from Gresty road than it looks.

How about we get this thread back on track? (excuse the pun) It's turned into some sort of inter-company poo flinging contest that's not helping anyone... To answer the top bit... We're getting on ok. Couple of weeks left of rules then Wagons and traction follows that some of which is in the...

Ok , thanks for the info.

To all starting tomorrow, I'm looking forward to meeting you all and getting started. . Does anyone know which of the two Postcodes is correct for the training centre? The one in the business header appears miles from anywhere on google maps, The other one in the letter looks right though. Guess...

Thanks, that was one of the questions I had :) Any info on what routes they sign?

DO you mean you are going to be based at Doncaster or that you are based at Doncaster already? If the latter I've got a few questions.....

Looks like the People staying at Crewe are starting 18th and those going to ferrybridge are starting 25th ? I did a quick run down to the training centre to see how long it would take to get there and it looks like there is plenty of parking at the ferrybridge one.

Hi all, Looks like I've been a bit late to the party. Shame I haven't found this forum earlier as it seems it might have been good to calm the nerves a bit during the recruitment process. I'm starting on the 25th at Crewe for a week and then on to Ferrybridge for training. With my Depot as...