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No and I didn't say that. But as I said, don't start from the default position that everyone is trying to cheat the system as it is clear some staff do. Mistakes happen especially by non-locals and those conversing in a different language. That is all that is being said here. Obviously, you'd...

Applying a bit of common sense and empathy maybe? Perhaps not start from the default position that when someone's english breaks down it is an attempt to get out of paying? Accept that it is a stressful situation for the person. Perhaps accepting that people from outside the UK may be more...

And how would you have got on being confronted by an aggressive guard suspecting you of being a cheating foreigner threatening you with the police in Swiss German? The point is that almost all countries have local rules which are often well known to locals (and sometimes not) and which the...

The irony was that the problematic powercar was the one named 'First: transforming travel'

I think steroids seem to be part of the diet for some RPI/barrier staff.

I'd really love to see how some of your foreign language skills get on when in a foreign country when confronted with a heavy handed guard/RPI/barrier person, threatening you with all sorts of things. But I guess because they are foreign they must be all out to cheat everyone... Let me...

Regarding stops: A Hereford to Paddington train makes between 15-18 stops on its journey. The first 14-15 in the first two hours between Hereford and Oxford. The HST I'm sure will find a use however, we will probably see a much smaller fleet. Much will depend on IEP being delivered on...

I am pretty sure that if it had been any other kind of failure where it was possible to move the train then they would have brought a loco from either Didcot or proceeded with 1 powercar to Oxford. In this situation it is really difficult to see what else they could have done, the only thing...

All I can say is that the Guard made announcements once we were going giving everyone full details of where and how they could claim compensation. There was a guy who had got on at Kingham to go to London but who had missed his meetings, he spoke to the guy in the ticket office, said that the...

A fiasco suggests that people had no idea what was going on. It was the reverse. A train broke down and it took a long time to fix the problem having tried various other ways to fix the problem. The crew knew what they were doing and were working hard to fix the problem. At no point...

The train was fixed without any need for a rescue locomotive from Didcot. The three people involved in fixing the problem were working continuously on trying to fix the problem - which involved them having to go down onto the permanent way. The fact that people were working on the side of the...

The parking brake on the rear powercar became jammed on (or at least this was the story they were telling us on the train). They had to manually take it off. Control then took a very long time to decide that it was safe for the train to leave. Train ran through to Paddington without problems...

Grrr, I am Jimm, I am internet hardman, hear me roar. The point about SDO was acknowledged right at the beginning and the discussion moved on. You are too busy trying to be an internet hardman telling everyone their wrong and not spending enough time absorbing the debate and accepting that...

:roll: Ho hum. Yes I read it but the debate has moved on since then and you haven't kept up. So spare me the lecture about how I should read the thread. Do we know if 2 IEP cars will fit in all the short platforms ie Shipton? Also, consider that at the moment you have loading through 3 doors on...

The problem seems to be this: There is demand for 5+ trains between Worcester and Oxford. (The 180 services during the day from Great Malvern are normally full up & one of the main aims of the CLPG is an hourly service between Great Malvern and Paddington.) There is probably not the demand...

I think in both cases they were looking for people who weren't going to challenge their authority. The guy on the platform was threatening to contact the child's parents and told him that because he'd been inside the yellow line the train had had to come in more slowly and was no delayed and...

I'm shocked that an RPI hasn't tried to give the cat a penalty fare followed by a prosecution.

A few months back a particularly nasty SWT guard made a point of threatening a heavily pregnant woman with various things because she had not been (on a crowded train) to find him and buy a ticket. He was 'the rules say you have to come and find me because you didn't I am going to...'...

Well if it were a Dundee to Plymouth train via Newcastle, Birmingham and Bristol then you would have an interesting mix of accents. It would make a change from the monotony and hegemony of middle class RP accents

I think that to help passengers each train should have its destinations voiced in the appropriate regional accent. So any train to Plymouth needs to have its destinations read out by a Janner, any train to Glasgow by a Taggart soundalike. There is a guard who does the last...