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    Do train crews from different TOCs mix with one another in the mess room, or keep themselves to themselves?

    Hardly see anyone talking nowadays since phones and tablets became so prevalent.
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    Do train crews from different TOCs mix with one another in the mess room, or keep themselves to themselves?

    Playing bones or cards for money was also forbidden.
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    Deal proposed for Northern Conductors in the North West regarding Sunday working

    Working towards Sunday as part of the working week was part of the franchise when Abellio took on scotrail.It never materialised for probably several reasons.There did seem an appetite when re nationalised from transport Scotland but since the talks requested by scotrail early this year no...
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    Scotrail Long Term Out of Service

    Did one of the old electrics not have a fire a few weeks ago?
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    Driver's seats, simulator hardware & other railwayana up for grabs

    Gee those seats look way better than anything I've sat on in years.
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    Is The Scottish Boom Over?

    I thought in the original plan the old electrics and the 156s were the first to be replaced but as far as I'm aware their has only been an announcement how ever vague about replacing the HSTs.
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    Do train crews from different TOCs mix with one another in the mess room, or keep themselves to themselves?

    I think it's been going on so long they actually enjoy the notoriety.
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    Do train crews from different TOCs mix with one another in the mess room, or keep themselves to themselves?

    Have you ever been involved in a dispute where some of your colleagues come in to work. Now I don't have a problem if someone doesn't want to join the union daft if you ask me but there you go,but there was a character at another depot who was non union who not only came in to work on his...
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    Do train crews from different TOCs mix with one another in the mess room, or keep themselves to themselves?

    I think most drivers do,I know I do,LNER XC Caley sleepers and freight and my fellow scotrail all get a wave.The only ones I can remember who persistently didn't wave the old BR high speed driver's,perhaps thought they were a cut above.
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    Do train crews from different TOCs mix with one another in the mess room, or keep themselves to themselves?

    Bloody law unto themselves,horrible place to go thankfully only had to a couple of times.
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    ScotRail Class 170's

    Yeah a lot of them running about like that,cabs the same,think it's crap from the air con being wiped about by a damp cloth.
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    Dundee signalling

    The signals off the bridge and from the west are positioned to protect the central junction.
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    Toilet paper on trains

    Have to say that's one if my pet peeves as well.It happens in the staff toilets as well,I usually open it up and remove a load of the top of the pile.
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    Train Driving in Snow

    The 158s main problem with snow is with the inboard disc and the cloud of disturbed snow coating the disc in water and causing the pads to aquaplane,this was sorted with a different pad.
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    Train Driving in Snow

    158 75 mph max or 10 mph below line speed ,below 50 mph no restriction. All other traction when wholly or partially fitted with disc brakes then 19 mph below line speed again no restriction below 50 mph. This is for scotrail at least 1732017530 10 mph below not 19.
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    Incident at Talerddig, Wales - 21/10/2024

    Been driving them for over thirty years now and I've never noticed brake fade but we were never taught to have them running in step 1 for any length of time indeed the early days it was straight into 3 though that was modified later. What we were told was disc brake better at high speed and...
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    Incident at Talerddig, Wales - 21/10/2024

    On scotrail at least we moved from the earlier/lighter several years back to you MUST use step two as your initial brake.
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    Dundee signalling

    Ah yeah thinking about it your right about the royal scotsman,and it is still a regular visitor to platform 3.
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    Dundee signalling

    I have never seen not saying never been done a train starting from beyond the signal at Dundee.I have done it a few times with the sleeper off of Inverness.
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    Planning a trip to see Scotrail HSTs

    The 222's were and apparently are still talked about though the problem is that's there more than scotrail sniffing about them now bumping up the value of them.

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