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Just a quick question on how the scheme works- I took a journey from A-C, changing at B. The journey from B-C is the last one of the night with a 9 minute connection. The train from A-B arrives at B 31 minutes late. A taxi is put on to take me to C. C is unstaffed. Because the...

You're not alone, obibup. I applied around the same time to Perth and, I think, Glasgow and Airdrie, did the assessments and haven't heard back.

Overheard on the lovely fife no.19 a couple of years ago from an obviously upstanding member of the community, I think she was just talking to a friend but given I was at the front of the bus and she was at the back as was her friend, I can only assume she was so excited she wanted the whole...

I'll give my answer from a non-expert viewpoint and wait to get shot down in flames. :lol: A gearbox exists in a car to make the best use of the available torque (twisting force that gives accelleration). With an internal combustion engine, maximum torque is only available in a very narrow part...

Not strictly railway related, in fact not related at all, I once heard an announcement at Ibiza airport for flight FR2022 to Turin. Sounds better when you say it in your head!

"The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone"

Thanks, Yew-I was planning to do it through telesales, especially with it being a bit non-standard. I'm guessing if it's possible they might be able to do something along the lines of issuing a return back to the original station but issue the reservations to the appropriate stations? Either...

Does anyone know if it's possible to return to a different point from where the journey started with this offer? I quite fancy taking in both the Highland and West Highland lines by starting from Fort Bill and ending up in Inverness or vice-versa. I know 1 suggestion might be to rely on the...

Not really. Goes a little something like this. Step 1. Hairdresser puts her bag on top of her case on the platform at York. Step 2. Said bag falls onto running line at York. Step 3. Aforementioned member of staff at York stops movements and retrieves said bag. Step 4. Said member of staff...

I remember now-the TM that didn't take any s**t on the last train back to Swansea? 2 possibilities here as far as I can tell. If we're talking about Train Managers then nope, none so far. If we're talking about ladies that are easy on the eye, then surely that's down to individual...

Jody-Remind me who she was?

Just watched the programme on channel 889 (I'm a Sky member of staff so we get previews from time to time!). Decent enough way to spend an hour! Kinda follows in the footsteps of the FGW series on Ch5, it follows members of staff as they deal with problems, etc. If anyone has any...

Agreed. Nice architecture, lovely and spacious and most importantly, overground!

Oops, didn't notice the OP's clarification about this being for UK stations! Bad: Ibiza town's new bus station. It's underground and the pinch point at the bottom of the entry/exit ramp means that one bus can't leave while another one arrives. It's got one central island and because...

In a train with diesel-electric transmission, when using the power controller are you using it as a throttle to directly control the engine revs which then supply power to the traction motors or are you controlling the amount of power delivered to the traction motors which then somehow demands a...

That's them back!

Same happened to me, so I emailed East Coast. The reply I got was along the lines of "what are talking about, they're still there!" Checked back on the site and they'd still disappeared. I didn't take it any further, I'll just see what happens when I try to use them.

Just taking 2 of your bugbears together, 90019, I followed someone the other day who was doing 40 (if that!) in the outside lane of a slip road. Because I had the audacity to go round them in the inside lane to at least have a remote chance of doing a reasonable speed by the time I merged...

Thanks for that, soil! Forgot to say it would be an Off-peak return but you covered the 2 options nicely anyway! Thanks again, Chris.

Hi, Can anyone advise if this constitutes a valid break of journey on 1 ticket or if I'd have to split the tickets into 2 separate returns around Glasgow Central/Queen Street? The whole journey is Lochgelly-Mount Florida. Day 1. Lochgelly-Mount Florida starting out around 10am followed by...