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I suppose these days there's a widening gap between what is technically achievable (some very impressive short stopping distances) and what is considered sensible or professional by the driver or the driver's employer. Add to that the desire for the driver to avoid anything on their safety...

AFAIK new trainee drivers already do in the form of Level 2 Mathematics Functional Skills. Nothing more than that is necessary or desirable: drivers are employed for abilities other than becoming obsessed with academic or theoretical detail while in the process of carrying out a safety-critical...

An acquaintance of mine near Glasgow told me diesel had reached £2.00 a litre there, perhaps that was just one very isolated example but that's certainly a huge jump from a month or two ago.

A non-tilting Voyager or Pendolino would lose around 5 minutes on Euston-Birmingham, often still arriving on time though with a good run from International as opposed to catching up the stopper halfway.

In many highly responsible and safety critical jobs such as train driving, and for the vast majority of conscientious employees, no punishment handed out by a judge can equal the self-torture and punishment one goes through following an incident where a mistake or error has been made. The...

Definitely appears to be some unscrupulous money-making going on too: my nearest Tesco fuel station which has a once-weekly delivery has put the prices up by 1-2p every single day for the last week. So not tied to the cost of the delivery but rather based on what they can get away with charging...

How do you know that the various "large organisations" involved here (Network Rail/TOCs/FOCs) don't have subject experts with good ideas? Hint: they do. However, for a start they wouldn't be posting those ideas here, and secondly, the vast majority of good ideas are unworkable in practice - as...

I recall a CrossCountry service years ago which on departure from Birmingham New Street was pick-up only at Wolverhampton and next stop either Stoke or Crewe, I forget now. The service got gradually busier with commuters "wising up" to the Wolverhampton stop and using it to leave the train...

Will look into that, thank you.

Must be nice having free solar panels. Most of us can't get that deal.

Hopefully these two quotes will let you see how I came to the conclusion that you were, but apologies if (as it seems) I misunderstood. I should however express my opinion that giving a reason for something is not (always) the same as defending it. I have encountered sales or customer service...

Labelling rail staff as apologists is not (always) accurate and could also be seen as somewhat insulting, when many of them are simply trying to offer insight and explanations into processes unknown to those outside the industry.

Truckhaven near Carnforth is one of my favourites for value, quick service and reasonable quality.

The first part quoted above shows that you do not know the first thing about how rest day incentives work. If drivers (or anyone else for that matter) want to actually enjoy their rest days off, as you do your weekends, then they generally won't work as the basic salary is enough to live on. If...

:lol: Makes perfect sense now.

Those last two Avanti (then Virgin) services from Euston always used to be set-down only north of Milton Keynes, until the 2011 timetable. The advantage being that on occasions when there was still a four-track railway in use, or enough of it to be able to get past the stopping services, it was...

O/T but does anyone know the reason the establishment at LLJ is known as "The Killer"? Always been curious.

I apologise as I didn't even notice he had missed out the word "not", which explains your query perfectly.

Perhaps because "free" doesn't necessarily mean "desirable" for some people. I suspect you know this though.

Undoubtedly. But also, a few, capable of logical thought and with their judgement not clouded by blind hatred for train crews, may just ponder over the 2.4% (2020), 1.2% (2021) and 3.8% (2022) fare rises with a small amount of surprise that it translates to 0% (2020+2021+2022 so far) increase in...