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And a real life example darling, I've tried to kill myself because of crime that the loony left have let a criminal get away with. That is the real life impact that your stupid "cost/benefit ratio" approach to justice results in. I don't want someone who has sexually assaulted me...

I would never dream of using a urinal. But surely if we're using a cubicle we sit down?? Thick headed society we live in if not.

What's worth countering though? The far left wing will just come along with their views that we can make all these backward criminal types better through restorative justice and by making prisons a place of learning and development, and pooh-poohing the normal types who just want to see the...

You'll need to speak to Stena Line to pay port tax, and book a cabin if you're on a night sailing, but other than that aye it's just a case of presenting your coupon. No FIP available on the connecting transport from Hoek. If you're not pressed for time, and the weather's okay, I'd recommend...

Sunday on Bank Holiday weekend when you've got nice weather and the likes of Reading/Leeds festival, Manchester/Cardiff Prides, plus it's summer holiday time, nobody's going to come in to work overtime to cover staff shortages if they don't have to. If TOCs didn't skimp on hiring enough staff...

BTP attend somewhere between two thirds and three quarters of all workforce assault and abuse events which are reported to them. There is some room for improvement there but equally it isn't half bad considering the geographically dispersed nature of the network. Unfortunately some rail staff -...

Almost certainly not going to be picked up. But railway work does require you to be sensible about these things, drugs and alcohol policies are there for very real safety reasons. Worth bearing in mind going forward.

Reducing workforce assault and abuse is a key priority for the industry. Unfortunately, it's getting significantly worse year on year which is something that the train companies alongside BTP want to get tailing off. Revenue protection issues are generally the biggest trigger for assaults and...

The simple solution to all of this is to give all rail staff a printed 'endorsements' duplicate/triplicate pad so they can put the authority in writing and any improper endorsements can be tracked to an individual member of staff.

If someone's being abusive towards you on the railway, you can discreetly report it by texting the British Transport Police on 61016. They might be able to respond, investigate after the event, or at the very least they can log repeat offences and monitor trends.

Took the 18:15 ex Lime Street today; air con, plug sockets and PIS weren't working in my carriage. Random alarms blasting down the PA at Lime Street and again at South Parkway, where the doors closed as soon as they'd opened and trapped some poor old lady trying to get on with her suitcase. Ten...

Whilst I dont disagree with the spirit of what's said, I would add XC catering hours are a little more varied than 'out from 0600 and in by 2100' as it'll depend on route and individual diagramming. Additionally, the trolleys used on the 170 fleet are different to those used on Voyagers and...

Even trying to add a partner is made difficult; I'm afraid I dont think you stand much chance of adding someone outside the scheme rules.

Aye, I know what to expect if it's green and has GWR on the side (Though the more pressing issue is what to do if it comes off and gets replaced by something standard). That's not the same as knowing what a Panner Tank is - the point I'm making is not everyone who works on heritage railways are...

You'll be trained on the areas which you need to know for whatever role you'd be doing, so for a footplate crew you'd be trained on the inner workings and particulars of steam locomotives. Diesel crews would be focussed on that type of locomotive. A Guard would need to know more about operations...

That does come across a little rude. Additionally, not everyone who works on a heritage railway is footplate crew, so they're not necessarily going to know the particular details of different types of engine. I did heritage railways for seven odd years and I couldn't tell you what most of the...

Very sad if that is the case, workforce assault and abuse is high priority for various industry parties and, of course, every member of staff is perfectly entitled to invoke the worksafe policy if they feel they can't carry out a given duty safely. Hopefully Northern management will be able to...

You've got to be careful when communicating with passengers not to use too much jargon, which is why a lot of TOCs fall back on the term "operational incident", which I personally dislike. It's also difficult to have every possible operating irregularity programmed into automatic...

Quite. What better way to get some information on which flows people are using split tickets to get around?

I'm genuinely surprised there's TOCs out there which allow - with the greatest of respect - random (and by that I mean, not ones responsible for managing catering) managers to throw catering staff off trains. At my TOC catering staff are a valued part of the on-train team, who are left to...