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Doesn't explain why seats in L can be reserved northbound from Inverkeithing, despite it being off the platform (as it is at Falkirk Grahamston).

Are you sure this is correct? On northbound LNER services at Inverkeithing, only the front door of coach K (i.e. the standard class end of the coach) is opened, with coaches L and M off the rear of the platform. I have definitely reserved tickets in coach L northbound from Inverkeithing (more...

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What has been going on at Cadder? There seems to have been construction activity ongoing at the site for a long time. Wondering why it is not complete yet? Covid can only be used so far as an excuse... lots of other industries manage to build things in far less time than the railways seems to...

Did you miss the bit where it was actually the RMT "demanding" a 4.9% one year deal with no productivity terms attached?

To respect your anonymity, of course.

I don't expect anyone to welcome anyone else's opinion. But I have not seen anyone defend the working practices in a rational manner - just the likes of "that's just the way it is". And that not working in the railway industry seems to mean that your opinion and observations aren't valid...

Of course I understand "how it is" from the posts on this thread. And it's not for me to "accept" the current working practices or not. But it doesn't mean that I can't make observations as to how inefficiently the (publicly funded) railway seems to operate.

I understand the concept of unions. But jobs change over time and new opportunities open up. There's no cotton mills or coal mines in the UK nowadays, but plenty of jobs in tech, for example. The tide can't and won't be held back for ever. e.g. the "safety" requirement for two drivers to be...

Not at all. I find it fascinating to view an industry which seems to have so many workers who seem to work in silos (so many references to "grades") and cannot countenance doing any other role to help out: "not my job". If I had nothing productive to be doing during working hours, I wouldn't...

Helping with some queue busting at the gateline is hardly the same as being asked to the clean the toilets. Anyway, it's good to know that you equate the work of gateline workers to toilet cleaners.

I hope you are trolling, but sadly I fear you are being serious. In what industry other the railway would someone sit around "spare" doing nothing instead of offering to help out their colleagues who might need a hand?

Of course, they could have caught the virus anywhere, not necessarily (or likely) at work.

I would say that railway staff were more at risk of catching Covid while going for their daily food shopping / other interactions with the public / their family than working train. In the 1st class carriages on the ScotRail HSTs (which were out of bounds to passengers) it was quite common to...

My recollection is that the trains were only kept running to transport "key workers" and everyone else were instructed not to travel? So it is fair to assume that those passengers on the train were "key workers" and had no choice but to use the train due to lack of other transport options. So...

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And there was a maximum capacity of only 12,000.

My experience of travelling during the most part of the pandemic was on board staff occupying the entire 1st class carriage on the HSTs as their "safe working zone" (notwithstanding ScotRail publicly stating that 1st class was available to help passengers socially distance). The staff never...

INR - Inverurie INS = Insch