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I personally wouldn't want my passengers to know my driver had made a mistake. A little while ago, my driver missed an AWS cancellation, (the signal was green and should have required no action) and we came to a screeching halt from 110mph on the up fast. The driver buzzed me up to admit what...

As Guards, we sign to say we have the required knowledge of a certain route. The same applied to different sorts of traction. For me I sign only class 350's. New Street, for example, will sign (dependant on roster) classes 350, 323, 153 and possibly 170. A diagram (job) is the work you have...

30k is a fair wage for what is, as you rightly point out, repetitive work requiring concentration. My job requires me to start incredibly early and finish sometimes very late - sometimes only an hour before the earliest starter books-on. I also work a 10 hour shift most days. Sometimes in...

If the shareholders shout loud enough and the kick back off the government is large enough, they will. The way Horton, Crowther and all the rest of the clowns are going on, I suspect there's a rather large bonus in it when they impose DOO. Think about how much DOO will save. I have this...

Don't think I've ever done the B+H. I'm guessing low speed and very pretty? Under the Bristol line at Cogload Junction??

The passengers have only just mastered (or not) number of carriages. Let's not confuse them further.

Fantastic, thankyou. I may use a bit of charm and have a chinwag with the guard (being one myself) and see if I can pinch one of the nice seats. I'm guessing it would be a Bristol Guard on it?? Is first class any good on GWR?

The recruitment team don't have a clue. Believe me, our HR team are worse than useless. If they told me it was raining I'd stick my head out to have a look. Judging by the fact that the guys that sign Crewe in my depot keep getting Crewe's diagrams to cover, and the Crewe's supposed to be...

Oh, don't you worry yourself, you can guarantee ASLEF will sell us out for a payrise. ASLEF are interested only in their own grade - good luck to them, too. The RMT reps will roll over for Horton to give them a belly rub, while the ASLEF reps allow their members to stab their RMT colleagues in...

Same as the fences down the middle of the island platforms on the WCML. There was some sort of survey done where it was proved a physical barrier sometimes makes potential suicide victoms come to their senses.

What crap. Hatfield was due to Railtrack being driven by profit. Today's TOC's are interested in profit - god forbid the shareholders go without their divvy. Lets look for a moment at the situation with GTR. 99 million profit, 43 million received in subsidies from Central Government, but 22...

The RMT have badly let down their members. The whole DOO debacle on Southern has been handled poorly by the union. As soon as it was mentioned, there should have been an all-out strike across their network. It would have taken only around a week to get GTR round the table to thrash out a...

Ladies/Gents/Boys/Girls I'm travelling to Taunton on the 28th with the eventual destination being Minehead for a stag weekend. I'm looking at getting the 1106 ex-Paddington, arriving Taunton 1258. Is this normally a busy service?? Am I likely to get a seat?? Finally, does anyone have any...

LM can only just provide trains and crews for the service they run now!!!

Sorry, but I think you'll find they are.

We've got some 12 minute turnarounds at Euston in the morning peak.

Class 350's are NOT built as compatible for DOO. The question that was asked about the door panels working on the driver's desk - yes they do, as long as there's a key in.

Oh, what a hero Corbyn is. :roll:

Can you give me an example of a time you made an important decision? Can you give me an example of a time you delivered excellent customer service. You get the idea?

Fairly sure my Mrs gets the train to Perry Barr from New Street regularly when she goes to see some friends of ours - it's the Tame Bridge Parkway train I think.