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Selective door opening was proved to me to not be the huge problem people claim a few days ago. A 5 car train (2x158 and a 153). Ram packed, guard couldn't get through to do single door at Conwy. So let themselves out, and opened every door that was platformed from the platform. Problem solved?

To be fair to them, they do seem to be trying to sort that problem out with, umm, completely random stopping patterns for Mk4s. Don't get me wrong, I loved my non-stop last week but I'm not sure everyone else did. Someone will be along in a moment to explain why non-stopping westbound trains...

This is not true. I live overlooking the line and have been well aware of how it has been run for the past couple of years. It is very much a shuttle service. The "five minute marginal service" you're thinking of has not been something in timetables for 2 years. Whatever hotchpotch you're...

Perhaps there shouldn't be, but that doesn't equate to there certainly wouldn't be. I'm sure there are countless people on the forum with countless examples of where an operator's employees have acted in just that manner - treating the passenger as an inconvenience to "their" company and denying...

Well, it's essentially unbounded between London and Birmingham. Elsewhere, not quite so. Are we to assume it's going no further then?

I suspect advances have a miniscule effect on TFW's overcrowding given the random pairs of stations they're available for, that in many cases the saving isn't worth buying a restricted ticket for, and other TFW ticketing nonsense like day returns being available for longer journeys where only a...

The ROSCO owner of them didn't agree to both being removed, with an opportunistic eye on being able to flog them to a TOC that wants first class in the future?

I routinely only activate my M-tickets once I'm on the train and it's started to move. After having a refund claim rejected where I'd activated one beforehand and subsequently all trains were cancelled I consider that sensible. Obviously there are many people who would disagree, so am not giving...

How are people supposed to determine those rare cases you mention? There are understandable deterrents to tourists to use bank cards for tap in/out travel. They may have never come across the concept before, in this country or abroad. If they're from abroad, they may not wish to incur their...

This is not correct. TFW do use third party security staff.

Yeah. Right. Willing to bet EMR outsources this just like every other TOC.

Someone working for a security guard agency? Got your SIA? OK, go and do this. It is the opposite of a unionised workplace.

I understand your thinking, but I think it's probably far simpler than anything as bizarre as that. They're just incompetent. The Welsh Government is incompetent. I'll misquote it, but there's that saying which goes along the lines of "never attribute that which can be explained by incompetence...

Statistics. The vast majority of people who don't work in a workplace with a recognised union aren't union members. I'd have thought that was obvious.

That's simply not true, besides which if the person was an RPI the probability they're a union member is tiny.

Not one of the new grey LlJ ones with "VIP" on them? To be fair, they might have more than one, and as a private hire fantastic, but I'd had enough just going from Deganwy to Conwy on a "normal" 19. All the way would be horrendous. 1649711951 Most tourists don't use the train, in all parts of...

A good point, and given I'm both enhanced DBS checked and SC checked it was perhaps a foolish comment. Perhaps I'm harking back to do the days when people became adults at 16. Little has changed in law since then, but we've decided childhood lasts longer for some reason.

You might be thinking of the Avanti / Virgin Voyager which has (had? I've not been on it in quite a while) 2 "shop" coaches? One shop was permanently closed with signs pointing at the other one. As you say, perfectly possible to re-form Voyagers (despite previous claims here!)

But if it's pre-paid nobody will care, surely?

An app that for the vast majority of journeys would just say "good luck?" Making cycle reservations, on the few routes they exist, something you have to put a bit of effort into has an enormous benefit for people wanting to reserve a cycle place. Make it easier and people will actually have a...