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Three biggest gripes: 1. The "open return". Until they "simplified" it, the Anytime was a Standard Open Return. To this day, my experience as a ticket seller has been that when people say "open return" they want a period ticket to return another day with some flexibility. It is a failure to...

Generally speaking it doesn't actually appear to have been too chaotic. One thing I have noticed is the almost total eradication of the local "ne'er do wells" wandering in - the beggars on the platforms, druggies in the platform toilets shooting up and passing packages and street drinkers...

The Thorpe Culvert stop on 2S93 was inserted to avoid extra standing time at Wainfleet a few years ago (I think it was booked one year to follow the rail head treatment train) and subsequently never removed even though the RHTT path has changed.

It appears to be empty, it'll have been swapped out at Crewe I would suggest.

Where I am outside of staffed hours the lifts have mostly been converted to a system whereby holding the call button connects you to a service centre contracted in and they complete the lift call if it appears to be genuine. How reliable it is I don't know as I rarely use railway lifts, but it...

Yes, a colleague started in 1965 as an engine cleaner. I always find the grime comments funny. These locos are more akin to a sports car, someone's pride and joy. It's nice to see them looking well loved.

Chiltern having driver only dispatch will have tighter rules on station lighting than guarded trains, generally speaking. Where I am it is most unusual to make any changes to train operations due to lighting issues.

To be fair this surprises me a little as whenever I've called 999 for help rather than BTP (whom I only ever text) - (and I only call 999 when it's an actual emergency, never for something like a ticket irregularity) I can't remember an incident where I've had anything other than a swift...

Depends how far back you want to go. Until 2007 classes 150, 153, 156 and 158 DMUs worked alongside the class 170s under Central Trains. The 170s were introduced from 1999, before that it was the aforementioned Sprinter DMUs. Go back before 1993 or so and 1st generation class 105, 108, 116 and...

Not particularly helpful to your case but as a ticket inspector of quite a long time these situations do make me wince. Presumably non refundable advance tickets from the price paid, bought from a particularly clunky retailer and it becomes a legal matter dealt with by a contractor despite there...

No - you need to select that you bought in person at the station - should be something they can deal with via the usual email or similar.

No thanks - much prefer comfortable and practical! I hate wearing hats and will only concede to wearing a beanie or baseball cap if it's absolutely freezing or excessively sunny. Hats cause me significant discomfort. Traincrew don't tend to get special duties anymore, since privatisation only a...

Another ridiculous scenario. Yes, if the person is distressed they need to be treated with as much respect and dignity as possible but another one of this situations has resulted in hundreds of delayed and cancelled trains, over 11000 delay minutes and hundreds or thousands of people being...

The guard (who will have been Manchester based as you know) took ill during the outward journey and was unable to work the train back, the train was delayed at Hathersage whilst the driver checked on their welfare.

Likely to receive at best an incredulous response, I would have said.

They're fitted to most vehicles and more or less ready to go I believe, once staff training is complete. If you go on one of their tours you can see the control panels and locking systems fitted to the coaches.

The station staff regard her as the station cat, though she has a proper home and is only allowed in the waiting rooms and on the platforms. Cats being cats she goes where she likes and does seem to enjoy spending much of her time at the station. The GCR has many cats living around it and...

The Loughborough cat is known as Chi Chi and lives nearby, visiting a few different local places. She's nice enough though she can be a bit grumpy :lol:

Huzzah! Pleased to hear that. Best of luck.

If they're paper tickets you need the tickets and they can't be reprinted, nor is an itenary acceptable - sorry! :(