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Hi, will be doing above journey in the near future, is it quicker and easier to go via sheffield or via nottingham, needs to be tpe service. Cheers in advance for any help, apologies for any typos, using the weans tablet to post.

Hi All, just returned ( yesterday) from Manchester - Glasgow on the 1316 TPE, we had been down with the wee one for some guy called Justins' concert on Thursday night. Anyway, got to Piccadilly and found out our platform (14) so duly made our way up there. Unbelievable, the platform was choke a...

Hi folks, don;t know if i'm in right place to post this but looking for advice on the following. We are going to Piccadilly station and staying at Premiere Inn Portland on Thursday, young one is going to concert at arena that night, is it within walking distance from our hotel or would...

Hi, I am going to the Moto GP at Silverstone in September, I have my staff FirstScotrail pass and want to know if I could possibly use this to complete my journey, starting from GLC. Cheers in advance.

On Tuesday morning my misses got up to a wonderful surprise, she thought I wouldn't have went to any length to buy her a valentines pressie. But, little did she know, I had went and bought her an animal skin. She came down stairs and I duly gave her it, she then went berserk, saying " what gave...

Hi, at the moment Glasgow Central is near completion of having automated barriers functioning on all platforms apart from 1 and 2. Apart from the revenue these will endorse from dodgers, they will also make the role of guard, ticket examiner that bit easier, espcially on the late weekend trains...

This is astonishing. I was working a packed commuter train yesterday (6 coaches) and came across a totally life absorbing moment. First of all, I was working my way through the train when I heard a passenger call out to me " excuse me sir, I think you dropped this ", I went to him and he...

Throughout my working life I have been made redundant three times due to them, not a nice situation when you have a young family to bring up. First time was 1989 when our last deep mining pit closed in Ayrshire ( the Barony ), then three years later the young persons training scheme I worked...

Came across this recently and it made me think about how this could be abused by some folks in the know. Story is, two passengers showed me two single tickets from Partick to Ayr, this was on the return journey from Ayr. They then asked for two singles to Partick but if I would exchange their...

Hi, any of you got any idea of the kind of take home pay a T.E could expect ?. I realise this is subjective to what line you are on, but say on average with maybe a couple of overtimes thrown in what would you be looking at. Cheers.

Hi All, as the title says, this is my first post on here but I have used the site to gain valuable info and tips during my recent application for a ticket examiner with FirstScotrail. End result is that I now have my offer of contract and start date for my new post, one which I am most...