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Despite being a daily Central line user the Clip trains have managed to evade me thus far but I’ve finally managed to catch one. Externally, half of one car was completely covered in graffiti, including the windows. Inside, the brighter lighting, new floors and new moquette have definitely...

Only thing that’s slightly annoying about getting paid every 4 weeks is the year when you get 14 paydays, as you end up with a massive tax bill the following year. Fortunately it doesn’t happen too often and should only happen twice in the average career.

Indeed, it isn’t particularly an uncommon journey, and whilst far in distance the journey time to Zone 1 is only a couple of minutes longer than someone who lives in Uxbridge, for instance. I’ve worked with people who live in Yorkshire, Devon, and two people from Ireland (although they all had...

Down St siding on the Picc has one too.

If you don’t want to pay, try and checkin exactly 24 hours beforehand and you will be able to change your seat to an empty seat free of charge. If the seat you want is not available, do not check the box to collect your boarding pass, and you can keep going back to check if more seats have...

I believe XC’s control is based at their HQ in Cannon House which is just a serviced office building shared with other (non-railway) companies. I would therefore be surprised if it had the resilience that one would expect from a more conventional control centre [notwithstanding the fact there...

Because of a closure of the A1, l was on some minor roads near Grantham back in June at the end of the first heatwave this year and experienced this, with pieces of tarmac sticking to tyres and then falling off. The road was in a real bad state.

I had this on a Silverlink Class 321 about 20 years ago. All the customers on the train (at least in my carriage) could hear both ends of the conversation so it’s not like one of the staff members pressed the button to use the PA instead of the cab-to-cab.

It will all come down to each company’s rules and procedures and the risk and robustness of their assets, and this would differ by infrastructure manager (so Network Rail or LUL) as opposed to train operating company. In the case of NR, they have assessed each bridge’s robustness is assessed...

Had a really weird experience in Sainsbury’s this afternoon. Picked up a coleslaw and scanned it, and noticed that the item on the Smartshop handset display wasn’t the one I’d scanned. Picked up a few more of the same product to see they all had the same barcode. I then approached a staff...

Exactly what l was thinking.

The 73 stock categorically does not have door chimes when being closed on the porter buttons, which is what is being discussed.

You won’t have done, the 73 stock doesn’t sound door chimes.

Not all stock sounds door chimes when the porter buttons are used.

I suspect that it was more likely that the relevant controls lost oversight of the location of trains, rather than a loss of ability to communicate.

It’s a Sunday so trains are timetabled to start later than the usual Monday-Saturday times. As per the TfL website the first Northbound train on Sundays leaves Bank at 07:26, arriving Kings Cross at 07:34. https://content.tfl.gov.uk/fandl-nor-wtt-59.pdf

Would be interesting to see whether the establishment parties actually decide to stand a candidate in this byelection. Im thinking of 2008 in Haltemprice and Howden where the incumbent MP stood down in protest over the Labour government’s erosion of civil liberties, but the point he was trying...

Not quite sure when it’s a holiday but does the system not give you an option to either accept the new timings or look for an alternative flight? To be fair, it’s normally quite good when you get a cancellation on a flight only booking in my experience, although this might just be the basic IT...

It is not a points failure but a track defect (cracked crossing) meaning that the points can only be used in the normal position (ie. trains coming out of the depot).

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