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i've always got a pass at the big london stations to photo. like ticketman says it's no hassle. Victoria and Liverpool Street are Great. Paddington aren't really bothered. St Pancras are alright. Kings Cross are a bunch of Mardy Sods.

maybe they were changing the unit for the barton service(going back to Doncaster/Sheffield??), it's a bit too far for the scunny stopper.

almost all of tyseley's allocation of 153s failed last week(mainly the TPWS Light going off). they've had to pinch some off Eastcroft Now.

is there much in whitland?? i can have 2 hours there, or go all the way back to camarthen and have an hour there. anyway, my plans for wales(part 2)are: Mon 13 Mar - Fishguard and Milford Tue 14 Mar - H-O-W and Rest of the Valley Lines Thu 14 Mar - Conwy Valley, Festiniog and Cambrian...

where did you see this, exactly??

it's been on the TV in the mess room at snow hill recently. make of that what you will..

due to having a bad cold at work on sunday i've chucked in today's revised plan to do the H.O.W. anyway - Friday: Started on the 0836 Wessex from Shrub Hill to Gloucester. 20mins at Gloucester(i think), ran over to asda for some breakfast then came back and got the 0925 CT to Newport -...

Fish and Chips From Cleethorpes or Hull. Patties(Hull only). Chicken Balti Pies From Morrisons. Tomatoes and Cucumbers.

just if anyone is in the area and wants to say hello... Friday: on the 1405 Shrewsbury-Swansea(Heart of Wales Line). then GW HST to Newport, a couple of pints in Newport, then back to Worcester. Saturday: Shopping, then a trip to Bescot(the football ground that is) Sunday: Working...

well they call us senior conductors but it's guards really, you're still looking after the passengers.

it is stored at the chiltern LMD behind stourbridge 'box. around 2100 monday-friday it comes off the branch line, goes back to tyseley, and a new 153 comes from tyseley to work the service for the last 3 hours.

a conductor is what they used to have on the buses. you have a driver, a guard, sometimes a ticket inspector and on the inter cities a steward.

right, well here we go.. it looks like nobody here has seen the parry people mover. it holds about 20 people and in the service peak(7.30am-9am and 3pm-5.30pm)it just wouldn't cope. it's also a short but long and difficult walk(up and down hills) from the town to the junction and there is...

TPE Never run on sundays either! it's always a bus.. let's all laugh at TransPennine Hopeless :lol: :lol:

Central Staff are responsible for Train Dispatch. Virgin Staff("Couldn't care less team")are responsible for Station Assistance.

sometimes there's things you don't deal with in a while and you forget. i had to an excess a london evesham ticket the other day to travel via euston and i made a balls-up of it. or doing a wheelchair passenger discount. while i'm on a rant :) i was doing tickets a couple of days ago and out...

the female announcer's voice gets all the pronounciations wrong, that's why it's only occasionally used. if announcements are made manually at BHM, it's funny sometimes, when the arriva train is starting at wolves and they try to pronounce the welsh names, or the announcer said a train was...

0530? normally either at work, going to work or preparing to. i normally get up at 0600 anyway.

same thing here, with foregate and shrub hill stations. and up the road in stourbridge, the town and the junction. (when i lived nearby i also called GMB town station as well btw) i think station is more appropriate for a rail station as there aren't many bus stations around now..

interesting one at newark castle yesterday: "the next train on platform 1 is scheduled to arrive at 1558. calling at Nottingham, Loughborough(very long pause), Barrow on Soar, Sileby, Syston and Leicester" it turned up 11 minutes late 8)