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Back in the late days of ICEC and GNER I remember conductors would often do birthday annexments, which was a nice thing for them to so. In 2019, when I was on the Tyne and Wear Metro, a whole bunch of unruly teenage yobs got on at Millfield station. Before departing, the driver over the Public...

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Please feel free to post your draft. However, I personally feel that if you can afford it, you should engage with an experienced solicitor if you wish to avoid prosecution and be issued a final warning (that is not guaranteed though) ASAP. An experienced solicitor will likely be far better to...

As others have, I have also pointed out some of the flaws with the Nexus consultation. It is a shame Sunderland City Council did not continue to fight the now blatant seating layout issues long before manufacturing of the units started. It will be interesting to see what happens when the local...

Another thing to consider is that if TfL audit your own personal Oyster and your Mum’s Freedom Pass usage, would it look like your journeys were taken in the morning peak with your own personal Oyster and any corresponding return journeys/usage later in the day being done with your Mum’s Freedom...

The Aircon should be fixable, but it’s going to be a tough 10-15+ years for the customers with those seats. If the Washington extension goes ahead (if) and more units are needed, perhaps they will go for a more of a hybrid seating layout like the S8 stock.

Corrosion repair is something else to factor too. I hope sleepers don't become extinct, perhaps something like the Sunrise Seto would be a successor.

Also, GTR will likely be more amenable to eventually offering you a settlement if you were not combative with the member of staff and gave your correct contact details when first asked.

I had a look back at some of the interior photos of the Mk3 Royal Train coaches, and most of them seem utilitarian/basic inside and would probably not draw interest in visitors to museums (some of them are a bit nicer inside - so I guess those will be the focus of preservation efforts). In the...

I'm getting a bit of sinking feeling that there won't be a replacement for the Mk3 Sleepers on the Night Riviera tbh :( As it’s been mentioned, getting the Mk3 Sleepers to work with the AAR system would be a likely easy way for them to work with a 66 etc. push pull with a DVT generator, but...

I wonder if that may be a side effect of post 9/11 heightened security making it less necessary?

That was back in 2005. Cost increases might explain why they experimented with their own brand of fizzy drink a while ago. The old MML model would be great for drinks, but I'd settle for hot food to go on XC, especially on a long journey.

As well as the student loadings, academics do frequently use these services when travelling to other unis too. While agree a lot of people do use XC services for short hops, there is a sizable number who use it for long distance travel. On a side note, when I got my very first proper job at...

Without concrete evidence I guess we won’t know, it was certainly a complex period!

I'm on the side that he is a (lucky) conman. His wealth comes from his family wealth from Apartheid era South Africa and cashing in on when PayPal boomed (after he was sacked). You just need to listen to him for a few minutes to realise he makes no coherent sense.

Blyth never had Sapphire routes, and he still wears it frequently, sometimes with a black suit jacket haha.

I guess MML and Central Trains both having National Express as their parent helped a lot with short term transfers. Looking here, it seems to suggest that Central Trains had a general shortage of units (surprise surprise) at times, which may explain the hire of MML units.

AFIK the big groups have a choice of shirts/ties and polos etc. these days. At Arriva Northumbria, one of the (young-ish) Blyth Drivers wears a waistcoat with his shirt and tie, though I doubt that is standard issue uniform!

Thanks (and there probably should be a Turbostar history thread given how in their early days there were loads of variants and interior fitouts, plus the traveller). Towards the end of the original MML and Central Trains franchises, I remember getting a ex MML 170 from Peterborough to Norwich in...

The Ashbourne seating would have been awful in them, perhaps the IC70 or whatever was fitted to the 309s would have been a good compromise, plus some NSE artwork on the vestibules to add some visual relief. I guess by the time the final decision came, the idea of the Networker platform came...