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Once, not long after the automated 'you must by a valid ticket before you get on one of our trains.....' announcements began, 'welcome to xxxxxxx where this train terminates. If you have got here all the way from xxxxxx without a valid ticket and haven't got a penalty fare, well done, you should...

'Windows down on a dead cold day is a give away too' Take you don't sign 317's! Cab has a heater with two settings: OFF 35,000,000 deg celcius This requires drop window to be lowered from time to time, even on the coldest of days. Above about 60mph the venturi effect can suck the internal cab...

Worst: 0350 start on a Saturday. And it's your sixth early on the trot. Running late big time on your last trip of a diagram that's been modified to 10hours knowing the train you were booked pass home on (the last one of the day) will have departed by the time you get to destination, and your...

It seemed pretty clear to me when I read the report, where the RAIB put the blame!

It's simply to do with money. It's easier to blame someone rather than provide better training or move a signal that is badly positioned. The emphasis is put on individuals not to make mistakes rather than removing the risks which can lead to mistakes which is far more expensive. The classic...

I never gave evidence at the inquest, it was a documentary inquest, whatever that means? Obviously I gave a statement to the police as part of their investigation. I didn't consider that my name could subsequently finish up in the press, perhaps it is something I should have thought about? As...

The inquest into my fatality was a couple of weeks ago, it was a documentary inquest and so I was not required to attend. An open verdict was recorded. It was a particularly unusual fatality involving a child. There was some local press coverage of the inquest, myself and another driver were...

I think there is a cunning plan. Put some many ESR's on the down that most things will just terminate at Colchester to start back to the big smoke right time from there.

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I'll tell you what has improved my understanding of mental health issues - being affected by having run someone over with the train I was driving.

It wasn't me guv! Am rest day! Right next to the bog too. If someone was on the throne when that came down at line speed they wouldn't have needed senecot

They were still carrying out inspections of the UM about 2100. There was an epic General Broadcast last night 'this is the Stratford signaller, delays are occurring in the Stratford area and are expected to continue until February when the engineers finally give up possession!'

Can only speak for myself regarding counselling and it was optional. But I had always been of the mind I would do it. You may end up being given the phone number to call before you go home on the day it happens. If not certainly within a few days.

It's good that a campaign has been setup to do more to raise awareness to try and reduce suicides on the railway. More needs to be done to raise awareness of the dangers of trespassing. It was up 11% last year, over 8000 incidents and 38 deaths that were not suicide or suspected suicide. Under...

I think people understand how horrific it is when you have a fatality. Nothing can prepare you for that day. What I think many people will not realise is how hard the journey to recovery is. One of the first things you have to do is get signed off sick. I found being sat in a Doctor's reception...

During the summer during disruption I was approaching a very busy station not far from a London terminus working an ECS move. Reckoning the platform might be busy I slowed to about 35mph. It was busy. Suddenly spotted someone stood very close to the edge under one of those very large golfing...

It is probably worth mentioning that once you are a driver, that is the end of the career progression for the majority of people. Yes a few may go into middle management as DM's or become Instructors, but for the majority career progression is over the day you pass out.

Try airing up an 8 car 317 with an 08! Just getting enough in the main res to get the parking brakes off ha ha. How well do we do as humans regarding automation? I was on a course a couple of months ago and operating incident figures were discussed. The trainer said last year we had 11 fail...

A trainer once said to me 'we pay you for what you know not what do'. One moment your having a good day and then something out of course happens and you have to react, sometimes very quickly, in the correct way. Aside from the skill of driving the train itself, it's the ability to apply the...

Wasn't a HR Director from Abellio group involved in the latest round of talks between GTR and ASLEF? Could that be a clue as to what may happen? The latest round of talks , with strikes put on hold, would seem to be the first indication that there is light at the end of the tunnel?