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So there may as well not be a guard then. The clue is in the job title isn't it, a train guard who guards the train and is there for some sort of assurance and safety of passengers. If the purpose of the guard is just to open and close doors, then you may as well give that to the driver like...

*most* Okay, maybe not scared, lazy then. A lot of people should not be in public facing roles but they are, many people take jobs for the sake of a job and if they can find ways of doing least amount of work possible, they will. And what better way of doing that than sitting in the cab of a...

Mostly? You mean mostly sitting in the cab of at the back of the train. It's an extremely rare event to see a guard either walk through the train or open and close the doors in the passenger area. Its almost like they are scared of passengers, which in all honesty, in this modern world, is...

Thanks for these, by far the best announcer on NR. Cannot stand Southerns 'not new anymore' announcements.

Easy. 375/377.

Personally I find the tables and armrest a nice addition to a train journey and one of only a few luxuries we still have left in the stripped out, souless and basic world of the build trains of today. If people are a) too stupid to mind themselves leaving the seat and getting hooked by an...

I'm I'm still trying to work out why any train in this day and age is not built for interconnecting gangways between two sets. Can anyone explain why? Surely with ongoing crime being committed on trains and especially with SWR having on board supervisors/guards, if something serious is...

I think from now on, any further line closures that end up being permanently disused (line and stations) should be exempt and made illegal for them to be sold to property developers or local authorities for new bypasses etc. Of course I jest a little but the point I'm making is that I've now...

I stopped reading the report at "it was a stressful experience" accompanied by a picture of a girl who was around 21. 'Stressful'. Really? Try using the Central Line or Northern Line in the 90's in rush hour and I'll show you stressful. I've used it regularly end to end for various reasons...

Do you think the criminals / vandals care? They know their tags won't last long anyway, but cancelling a train during the day when in all honesty, the train will be cleaned in a few days anyway is sheer lunacy. Right now, train services are suffering enough as it is with strikes, reduced trains...

As long as the brakes work let the trains run, we have enough issues with trains not running as it is without someone wanting trains to be taken out of service because of a bit of graffiti, offensive or not. If you're offended, look the other way. Unbelieveable.

Why is it embarassing opening a noisy tray on a train? I can think of a lot worse embarassing things. 1673964256 His Dad should also think about taking his boy to Specsavers because in no way does any variant of the Electrostar look 30 years old.

Agreed. I can't believe they even lived beyond their time on the old decrepid North London line, they were dead on their backsides even then, creaking, squeaking, spluttering their way up and down the line each day. To Southerns credit, they polished a very bad turd but the guts were long gone...

Agreed and as a passenger as well. I cannot bear reading the same old nonsense about 'Covid levels are not at the same levels', well, they are as good as dammit. So yet again, we'll wait around for it to get to capacity levels again - and it will - before any action is taken and by then, as...

I'd imagine it would be treated the same as the Rominster line.

You must be desperately unlucky then, I use them every weekday and a fair amount at weekends and experienced that about twice in 20 odd years and that's to be expected if there is a fault. I've seen more 'toilet issues' on a 321s, 458s and 317s.