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If I could enquire in what way you disagree? I'm not saying that the use of force was correct in this incident just that the statement as made by the previous poster was legally and thus factually incorrect. I'd much prefer a person who reads the thread not to take as gospel a statement which...

Sorry but legally that is just not true. Rail staff absolutely have the right to use reasonable force to detain if a passenger fails to when asked produce a ticket, fails to offer to pay the fare and refuses to give name and address. Section 5 (2) Regulation of the Railways Act 1889. Whether the...

I'm guessing some kind of radio based system as a few companies have been deploying for European Train Control System level 2. It just removes the need for balises so you can get ETCS level 2 much cheaper without the expense of the reliability of the radio systems needed for ETCS level 3...

Ah so the rumours in the thread that disappeared here yesterday are true. Interesting that it isn't being discussed more widely even in other places.

Now that will be interesting if true. Something is needed to provide extra capacity if large numbers of people are wanting to travel to London. I can see the hand of the DfT pushing this rather than it being something Avanti wanted to happen themselves. Or the new MD has had a big change of...

If it was timetabled and advertised to have First Class accommodation by the TOC (which the 1043 from Elgin today was) surely the refund of the difference is down to Scotrail as the TOC not Trainline as the retailer? To quote the conditions of travel: The train in question was advertised as...

Not only a problem on the railways at the moment but the long training time from recruitment to productive work makes it a much harder one to solve. In my industry, which already has a long hours culture, the willingness to work rest days and overtime generally has gone down significantly post...

Another user of the Trainsplit app here. Easy to use, I don't find paying a small fee only if there is a saving excessive. I've found it to offer better splitting combinations than the Trainline especially with on the day tickets. Unless it has been added recently I've never been charged a fee...

I'm not sure if the losses in the case of the Scotrail franchise were really that bad, even without COVID changing predictions they had a defined relatively short end date. Its notable I haven't been able to find any mentions of further payments from NS (or other bits of Abellio) after the £10m...

I agree with other posters that this probably has much more to do with politics in the Netherlands around business activities NS have been doing outside of core functions. I remember some articles in the press in the Netherlands with political rumblings over the losses Abellio were making when...

Undoubtedly, yes, other anomalies exist. However, most people will be unwilling to share a lot of them publicly. Anomalies mentioned on here are often picked up by the people at a TOC responsible for setting fares and changing the routing guide (which also affect validity.) This results in...

As a more generalised comment how long do you see yourself doing the role? I know more and more people from "western" countries in my industry who have moved out to the UAE, mostly in Dubai, who are being replaced by locally recruited staff as time goes on. A good thing for developing local...

Short answer, no not really the same. Technically the WTD can be individually opted out of but collective bargaining agreements can only exempt certain areas (the working time regs list them). Neither option can be imposed by the employer but some opt outs can be enforced by working to a union...

I might be missing something here but wouldn't the better solution be to fix the TMS software so the speed set remained at whatever it was set to when rebooted? So if set to say 100 mph it stayed there after a reboot, otherwise it would seem to keep the risk of resetting to a higher value...

I'm not sure I'd say M-Tickets on buses have been entirely without problems. First certainly had an issue a few years ago where there back end provider ended up failing (a ransomware attack from memory) and no M-Tickets could be activated on there Android app. Took a couple of days for it to be...

I can't seem to get an individual registration to RSSB to work but does it quantify what level of deficiency might be appropriate or talk about what testing method could be used to find the acceptable level of deficiency decided on? Perhaps to be a bit clearer than I was originally the CAA...

I can definitely see it taking an approach similar to how pilots are assessed by the Civil Aviation Authority, it seems to be a matter of no-one wanting to drive a change through when sufficient numbers of people interested in the role exist . CAA only use the Ishihara test as a screening exam...

From personal experience over the past couple of weeks the XC Bristol terminators are causing serious capacity issues. Or more correctly even more capacity issues than XC normally has, especially when some of the services have ended up back as single units but at the reduced frequency. It has...

For me it puts a journey I intend to make in my calendar with an itinerary when using on the day tickets which I don't need to purchase before the day of travel (and have the hassle of changing or paying the admin fee for refund if not used). It's much easier to remember when planning arrival...

I can think of several that send the file as part of the booking confirmation (Trainsplit does for example) but none that do as you requested and make it available before completing a booking. Would be very interested if anyone else manages to find one that still offers this.