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    EMR Overcrowding

    IceBlue, i use Longport a lot, so "maybe skip longport to get it out of the way at Kidsgrove quicker"is negative thinking, on a positive note if the Derby-Crewe route was non stop you could cut the run time to about 30-35mins... I'm sure its happened before if a service isn't/or cannot run to...
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    Staff wearing body cameras

    i've just finished a job related security modual, and one part deals with hostile reconniassance, where the point is made someone filming in daylight, out in the open, quiet openly would not reasonably be classed as dangerous... Also as the barrister mentions, the point the majority of...
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    Staff wearing body cameras

    a Barristers legal view of auditing/filming in publc...
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    Class 20s from different depots

    we had 20's in Crewe rail works for heavy/int/light maintenance, on release could they have been used on "earn your keep/make yourself useful" duties on their way back to their home shed?
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    Trains departing with doors wide open

    i did it a few times back in the early 60's, our station had a level crossing with a revolving wicket gate, which the signalman unlocked when the barriers were lifted, so with the train in the station, we were waiting at the gate. If he was abit slow opening it, by the time we were up onto the...
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    Staff wearing body cameras

    have some posts for the last 2-3 days been removed? 1641643773 I am fortunate to have a press card that means I can get my identity verified by the police. Of course everyone has the same rights but it certainly helps. but jon0844 the whole point of it is you don't have to get your identity...
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    Staff wearing body cameras

    but if you are in that sort of situation, should you not be told the body cam is on and you are being recorded? 1641639876 1641640227
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    Staff wearing body cameras

    well all those i've seen show the photographer walking to wherever he's intending to audit, then he's approached by whoever and the confrontation begins...and it nearly always begins with "hello can i help you" then "you can't film here"... but he always does. 1641404221 i've never seen one in...
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    Staff wearing body cameras

    i agree with you partly, but on these video's its someone who comes marching up to the photographer shouting "you can't photo me delete it", and stands in front of the camera, and then calls the police. Then as in the example video at Manchester Victoria, if the photographer knows his rights...
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    Staff wearing body cameras

    Meerkat, the Chair of the ACPO Andrew Trotter in 2010 stated "theres no expectancy of privacy in public"... also 6 August 2010 Dear Colleagues Guidance for Photographers I am writing to you in my capacity as Chair of the ACPO Communications Advisory Group which sits in the Presidential Business...
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    Staff wearing body cameras

    i've been watching some of these auditing photograph videos, and the police are supposed to tell you if they switch their body cams on, and you can request copies of what has been recorded... and photography in a public area is legal, because you can photograph/record anything you can see with...
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    train and platform shuffle Stoke 27/11/21...

    thank you seagull and spartacus, i will put that to swmbo and hope for the best...
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    train and platform shuffle Stoke 27/11/21...

    Just to pacify the wife, she was due to travel Stoke on Trent to Euston, saturday 27th Nov. it was due to depart at 0648 off of platform 1,, at 0715 it was announced platform alteration to platform 2, where a train arrived she boarded only a few mins later to be told by the guard that this was a...
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    Theft by a member of the GWR Railway Staff

    When i worked at BREL Crewe, there was a young chap convicted of attempted murder, his wife and a "friend" were meeting while he was doing nights, and he went to prison for a number of years, released early for good behavior. He was able to go back to his own job, but if someone was found guilty...
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    Major disruption out of London Kings Cross (28/5)

    hi, regarding replacement parts, a good few years ago at Crewe there was a staff tea hut on one of the platforms, i was on nights and if i missed my train home i used to go in for 1 hour till my next train. It was generally full, and a few times crews were called out as reliefs, but (theres...
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    Memories of PT Travel

    I remember (just),around 1970ish going Crewe to Dover, on a free pass and then across to Calais just paying port charges on the return, and also i arrived on Euston after a England v Scotland, the station was packed, so went for a cup of tea underneath the station in the staff canteen reduced...
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    Quintinshill rail disaster (1915)

    wasn't there a report of un-id children in the Tay bridge disaster?... and regarding Quintinshill, I travelled north to Edinburgh last November, and made I point of looking for it but missed the site completely...
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    Byelaw offences

    as a retired staff travel card user, i'm not that well up on the byelaws, am I right back in the day there were notices on the stations, I can't say I've seen any recently, possibly because there must be that many nowadays they would cover the station. So how can a passenger be expected to...
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    WM Trains cancelled service...

    hi, just to update, I passed onto my daughter the advice etc given, and thanks to all for that, but she says for the first part of the journey Stoke to Crewe its not worth the bother, has they caught the Edinburgh train ok. If that one had been missed then she would have complained... but...
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    WM Trains cancelled service...

    thanks again all, it was a spur of the moment panic, the 0812 showing late running, the EMR not giving much connection time, and her sister saying she could take them to Crewe, and having reserved seating on the 0909 to Edinburgh. Perhaps a rail card for the future but they don't hardly use...

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