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When I worked in a Control centre we had this debate as the Duty Information Manager I believed in telling the truth if someone has been hit by a train say so, customers hopefully understand and sympathise with the victims family and Rail Staff involved. Emergency services dealing with an...

And if there were no spare Drivers and a train weas cancelled as a result the same type of people who complain that there are spare drivers would then complain that there train is cancelled why are there no spare drivers, you just can't win. Glyn

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I was travelling with one of the members of the user group last week and he confirmed that it was two Stevenage Moorgate two Hertford Moorgate two Welwyn Garden City Moorgate two WGC Sevenoaks each hour off peak Glyn

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My Nephew is the Hydroflex Engineer but who are the others?

On a through Coach from Inverness to Portree we had to get off the coach when crossing on the ferry from Kyle to Kyleakin

200 numbered routes were originally single deck, 800 routes were mainly New Town Town routes in Harlow and Stevenage, although the 803 was express peak hours only, there was an 854 in the southern area if I recall correctly in or near Crawley Glyn

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Bethnal Green Overground

And if a phone does not get answered it could potentially make recovery of the service harder.

Agree totally re Control I once arrived for duty at 1300 and 3 serious incidents happened almost immediately, someone made me a cup of Coffee and it was about 4 hours before I finished it, no meal break the entire shift and in the end I stayed on to help the night shift and finished at about...

When I was responsible for accepting and asking for ticket acceptance as a Manager in Control, I would regularly implement acceptance for a disrupted TOC before they asked for it and then rang them to tell them I had done it or advised them it was already in place when they rung us, this was not...

Train is Pick Up only at Rugby so sales platforms will not show it as an option. the train will not show as stopping at Rugby on the screens at Euston either.

The start of the road down to Buckfastleigh on the SDR is pretty off putting, lots of not so good looking used cars in various states of repair.

i worked in Anglia Control from 2010 to 2019 an ideal shift would just involve constantly monitoring the whole area with nothing really disruptive happening, I have had shifts where I have only just taken over when an incident occurs of such seriousness that it lasts all shift, on really bad...

Not quite livestock but I certainly carried the following live creatures in brakevans in the early 90's. Day old Chicks, Parrots and unaccompanied Dogs transiting between breeders. when BR ceased to be classed as a common carrier in 1962 they could decline to accept and transport items.

After reading another thread about people boarding a Mid Hants train at Alton thinking they were going to Waterloo it reminded me of the reasonably regular occasions where people turn up at Staverton on the South Devon Railway thinking that they are at Totnes NR Station, when questioned they...

The ones protecting Euxton Junction from the South I accept there is an intermediate signal before you reach Leyland, but even so it is only 2 minutes running time from Euxton Junction it does mean that platform alterations can still occur at short notice whatever system is in place.