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Jealous at being usurped?

Only almost?

Well, if the employer fails to deal with that error through other channels what's the alternative?

Are you suggesting that 'accidentally' breaking a contract through human error absolves the company of its liability?

Surely his original correspondence should either have been treated as an appeal or replied to with details of the formal process; not just ignored.

So not law-abiding then. Just volunteering to pay an idiot tax.

Two minutes early is accepatable? Trains should *never* leave before the time shown in the public timetable.

More fun would be having the drivers and conductors who think they know it all acting the parts of the WICC staff. See what a hash they make of it.

One step at a time. Rome wasn't built in a day. And other applicable cliches of your choice.

Can't believe the usual suspects are trying to defend the guard here in view of events in Liverpool. Either he could see the crowd or he couldn't. Either way it clearly wasn't safe to shut the doors.

Are you arguing for or against the guard there?

And there are those who take the view that the railway and its staff are perfect and that any passenger who suggests otherwise is a fare-dodging liar.

I've no idea whether that answers my question. Do approach release and flashing aspects give a driver enough time to stop if the route is set wrong? If not why isn't there a system that does?

That's a point that has often puzzled me. Why is the route indicator not placed at a point far enough before the junction that the train can stop before it gets there?

Has it hypothetically given me an itinerary for that train with that ticket?

NRE is part of ATOC, so anything they say is the view of the TOCs collectively, even if one or two wish it wasn't.

I'm sure NRE used to call itself 'the official source'. Maybe I've just remembered people here using the phrase. Edit: found it: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/46383.aspx

But it's 'the official source'. Or is that only when it suits the TOCs?

Quite. We all know what it's *supposed* to mean. What it *actually says* is something else. I assume it was originally drafted when carriages were wholly first or second class (or maybe third) and wasn't updated with the advent of mixed coaches.

Reports have been fed back to the staff involved ever since this saga started: they just ignore them.