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Oh dear, I'm sorry to hear that. I'm rather fond of the old boy.

Yes, the multitude that there were of those; compared with that, the virtually daily chaos caused by infrastucture failures/wires coming down/train failures due to diagrams being stretched beyond what's realistic pales into insignificance, doesn't it.... I think you mean Not Work Rail and East...

She'd feel like someone out of Eastenders compared with the one who does the automated accouncements on SWT. "Do try to keep all your luggage with you."

If they're not railway employees or volunteers, though, and they're just passengers, or taking photos on the platform, that's whent it veers into pretentiousness or even could be construed as impersonating a member of staff.

You'll still often hear people saying that, that they do or don't want to sit facing the engine. I always want to say "well, you'd better lay on the floor then..." I wouldn't say that to the Quee, though, obviously. :oops:

I've clarified in the post above.

What any of it has to do with anything? It's about the story posted at the beginning of this thread, about an act being dropped by TV bosses for fear of "causing offence", i.e. stirring up a storm of controversy in the Tabloid media. The point that I was driving at was that, of all the potential...

That might be useful, as they're compatible with 455s, and maybe they might be able to do something to improve the front end appearance as well.

Maybe they've decided to keep it as a theatre full-time, as it makes more money. :|

60 extra carriages? Would this be the former Gatwick Express class 460s, or is this actually some new stock? 8000 extra peak-time passengers? That equates to 133 (.3) passengers per carriage. We shall just have to hope that they know what they're doing.

You might expect Bournemouth to be at the mouth of the River Bourne, but there isn't one really, it's just a little stream that goes through the gardens past the bandstand. Avonmouth, however, is at the mouth of a river worthy of the name.

That seems to be policy on FGW, platform staff have yellow flurorescent jackets with First on them, which I suppose is helpful for trains crews and passengers.

i suppose it must make a change from 67005/006 all the time, although you'd think she could pull some strings to get a Class 92 or something. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- * heavens, Who’ll be at Sandringham The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh Prince Charles and the...

"when on about the railway" meaning not on the platform, either in the course of duty, or if you have a lineside pass. Not when you're on a train as a passenger, or when you're standing on a platform as a passenger, surely.

I'm afraid that's the kind of blanket all-purpose covering-all-bases rules that gives blanket rules a bad name. Not allowed to use your phone walking along the platform? Any company that imposes such an absurd rule would soon be looking for a large number of new staff, I'd have thought. It's a...

Does anyone understand that? Half a dozen people can complain about something, say, a "loudmouth disc Jockey" or a "Controversial TV Presenter" says, or about an advert, and they can have them fined and disciplined and suspended or the advert taken off; that's half a dozen people out of millions...

That seems wildly disproportionate. Have the Unions been emasculated to that extent that they'd tolerate that? --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Or what about this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chatsworth_train_collision

oh, we wouldn't want to to Cause Offence, would we? There may be tyrants getting away with genocide while the leaders of the West look the other way because it's not in their strategic interests to intervene, and the global oil companies may be able to hold the world to ransom, and Big Business...

But at least they're British!

Lose their jobs, homes and families? Will they be taken away to the Gulags as well?