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The Scottish services are not an inconsequential flow though and don't have the benefit of the train being sat around for ages prior for them to just board it. Of the two trains, one of which is a long distance regional express service people use to travel to London to take advantage of the...

Suggest you bail out early at New Street and get the 1803 direct to Durham instead, to avoid a mire of rail replacements and general messing about. Ticket will be valid due to the cancellation.

It's crap utilisation really. The LNR Euston sits in the station on turnaround for 20 minutes providing it's own facilities so would be quite happy out the way on 12. Instead the Avanti Anglo Scots get dumped over there which are booked a 2 minute dwell and attract plenty of people with luggage...

Until the next one breaks! Considering they were installed comparatively recently it has happened on several occasions at Lime Street.

It usually is. Whenever we have something important that requires collective bargaining to sort the TSSA lead officer is usually on holiday/not answering the phone or whatever.

158854 I think.

If it's the direct train it's likely to be horrendous as it comes from Bournemouth. You might be as well catching another train to New Street or Wolverhampton to intercept it there once it's had a chance to kick out at Birmingham.

It's always happened. People bring their stuff and pets into trains and things like fleas come with them. Standard practice is to shut the doors and windows, drop some fumigation, leave them in a siding for a while then air them out. Don't know why it would be a surprise.

810013 also failed on the 1235 Nottingham and terminated at West Hampstead.

Not to mention the very low linespeeds and very basic signalling.

Train Managers are responsible for supervising other staff such as caterers, Conductors largely just look after themselves. To answer the question about EMR drivers are harmonised, guards aren't, though only at Derby driver depot do they have booked mixed work links. The work is a bit...

810011 also failed causing a cancellation.

I have an idea that Northern management may (misguidedly) have thought that driver door release would be if anything welcomed by the staff on the ground owing to the crap layout and working conditions on the CAF fleet and thus included it. It's said often enough that they are popular enough with...

Yes they are. That's still diagrammed a 222 but it is possible there might be more changes by then I guess.

Took a bird strike to something, not sure whether it's windscreen, pantograph, air cock or whatever.

Well indeed. And when it comes to individual train loading I've never felt the need to consult anyway. I'm paid a decent salary to be the company representative on board a train. Even before the current agreements started if the station supervisor came up to me and said "X Y Z is cancelled, can...

The mentality to get past is that there is generally a way for the passenger to sort it out by paying for a more expensive ticket that gives that leeway. "Why should I let someone with a Northern Only ticket use my train, if I help them out they will keep buying Northern Only tickets and the...

Ha! The state they are in is obvious. They've had staff training on them whilst they've been in traffic for ages.

I think, in fairness, given they've used the relevant railway ticketing codes to refer to a rail service between two railway stations, most railway colleagues whether enthusiasts or not, and indeed most regular passengers would just be laughing at you, rather than the people in the photo, for...

There's a pair of 222s currently at Etches Park on hand back works, couldn't see which. One debranded and shiny, the other missing a driving car and having bodywork repairs.