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    SWR: Guards/RMT Industrial Action. Next strike dates: 30/31 August, 1/2 September 2019

    And RMT are doing brilliantly by criticising Chris Graylings statement that changing the Fare Rise inflation rate, to be cheaper for passengers, is a bad thing...
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    A bag left on a train - it costs £24 to get it back

    I once was leaving the train at Waterloo, and was prepared to take the buffet trolley with me, until they said I should only take my personal items
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    Staff Uniforms

    This goes back to my earlier Post
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    Could my video get a driver in trouble?

    No your video wouldn't if anything The driver's actions would
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    Staff Uniforms

    One other factor, I once worked for a company that were doing a full uniform update, luckily for me I was in the first department Why was it lucky? Well in all the shiny bells and whistles of the new uniform we were promised a high service quality from the manufacturer, in which they came to our...
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    What is your controversial railway opinion/idea?

    **Dons Tin Hat** Stourbridge Parkway
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    Funny rail notices

    That's no Joke
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    The Dispatchers Whistle

    I think you are being picky for the sake of it, Common sense suggests that TOC's that put in policy that a wistle during dispatch is mandatory, is to be applied, when the train is being dispatched by a Guard / Platform Staff. This will be a seperate policy to the dispatch procedure when the...
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    X Country trains cancelled west of Exeter

    do you think a thunderbird can run some 444's down there in support of lack of voyagers (purely so they can have a good clean)
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    Siemens to build new factory in Goole, East Yorkshire

    To hold the digression for just a moment longer, you can see the access point, here
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    Why do most things done by Network rail cost so much?

    or another way of looking at it, if maintained by the operator, its like putting the chef and waiter in charge of the maintenance of the kitchen equipment
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    Leeds TPE catering trolley record?

    It it just me imagining the catering trolleys themselves as joined up units?
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    Accidental Branding you liked.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenpoole/37025096985
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    Island Line Railway - current state and the future

    if you look on the map view, not satellite view, you would be quite correct that it appears to avoid buildings https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.7307369,-1.1562028,17.39z
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    Wrongly Assumed Facts by Passengers

    Now from experience (and I book a lot of travel Southampton Central to London Terminals) and it can be easy to be drawn to the cheaper fare for the Victoria Train, if the restriction is Southern Only the average Joe may not realise that refers to the TOC... granted they have rephrased it now to...
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    Unacceptable whistleblowing at Blackfriars

    My initial thought of the whole situation, a whistle is a sharp high pitched sound - High pitch means the sound doesn't travel as far but you can identify the direction of the source. When a whistle is blown on a platform, you have a reasonable idea of where there signal is being made, and you...
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    Fantasy: Using your imagination, what companies could you imagine running a franchise?

    Cheap - but a blimmin' misearable experience, with only one staff member (who gets a healthy hourly wage) on a zero hours contract running between Ticket office, guard role, and driver. You'll find the basics wear out too quickly than they should.
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    Rail renationalisation- do you support it?

    No they are Government, they are accountable to Parliament
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    Guards during strikes

    And you would hope a reasonable union, would asked the employer to restart hearings, etc. following the procedure rather than what is perceived as unions getting people off on 'technicalities'
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    RMT raises serious SWR safety breaches

    again if the RMT aren't careful, this could easily read as, 'human element is likely to make errors and are compounded by paperwork"

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