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    Most pointless journey for which a fare is available

    Worcester Shrub Hill to Foregate Street, I walked it in 12 mins the other day.
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    Driving cab door left open

    Someone’s got a Review due.
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    Hull Trains Suspend Services again - now resuming but with redundancies

    Well considering TPE stalk social media and forums I’d expect you to say that.
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    Hull Trains Suspend Services again - now resuming but with redundancies

    A Business that is being built up at the expense of another.. If I wanted to do that sort of thing I’d be in the City of London by now.
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    Hull Trains Suspend Services again - now resuming but with redundancies

    Not HT David, First. They’ve got Government money flooding in for their other operations so they’re not short. I do know a bit about FG, yes...
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    Hull Trains Suspend Services again - now resuming but with redundancies

    Or those who know a bit more than others and the others can’t handle it...
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    Hull Trains Suspend Services again - now resuming but with redundancies

    Just remembered the DFT are handing £36 for every passenger on TPE, so there’s no shortage of money up Aberdeen Direction...
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    Hull Trains Suspend Services again - now resuming but with redundancies

    They’re continuing to build it up for launch. Both Universities in Hull remain open. Retford gets half its intercity service from HT. Take that away - what do YOU expect people to do?
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    Hull Trains Suspend Services again - now resuming but with redundancies

    Just been announced in the last hour. However First continue with their other open access project East Coast Trains. Seems they don’t like Hull much, they’ve tried to pull the TPE operation out of there before(and Cleethorpes/Scarborough it must be said) like they did Blackpool Barrow and...
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    Best driver depot

    Leeds Northern. If you don’t fancy doing a full shift there’s a spare Skipton/Huddersfield/Harrogate Driver to do your last bit usually.
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    Could stations in Manchester receive a better service?

    I’ve always thought the stations on the Manchester - Earlestown line look a bit grim and probably unsafe at night so maybe stops people using them?
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    Cross Country get three-year extension

    The most crowded XC journeys i've made are Birmingham - Tamworth, Doncaster - Sheffield, Birmingham - Wolverhampton, all to be expected with the volume of traffic between these places. Not like ive had to stand up for long distance like on TPE from Manchester to Carlisle or on LNER Doncaster to...
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    Worst UK station in rush hour.

    Man Picc 13/14.
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    looking for a trainee train driver vacancy near Chislehurst kent

    Charing Cross looks to be your nearest, South Eastern run from there.
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    Is the railway in general top heavy with managers?

    TPE used to have: Train Service Managers (Guards managers) Competency managers(assesors) Driver Standards managers(assessors) Driver Managers Duty Despatch managers(basically Platform Supervisors) Quality Managers(basically ride round on trains looking for stuff to pin on traincrew) When the...
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    Least demanding railway job?

    Once worked a shift in the Ticket Kiosk at Birmingham New Street(Navigation Street entrance). I wasn’t trained on Sportis at the time so that was easy.

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