Recent content by johntea

Not a rejection (yet!) just checking I've done things right :) Decided to use a Northern return complimentary ticket today, Sheffield to Starbeck Got to Leeds, had breakfast, then found out the Harrogate line was knackered so my intended 10:29 cancelled, 10:59 cancelled, caught the 11:29 Just...

Out of interest can guards pull up details of CCST data? I purchased an advance ticket from a TVM at the weekend and received two tickets, an 'Advance Single' and 'Mandatory Reservation Coupon' (a perhaps slightly misleading title as this was a journey involving a couple of Northern services so...

I was on a Leeds - Manchester Victoria 195 the other afternoon where the toilet was seemingly out of action and the guard sorted out a pit stop at Hebden Bridge for anyone wanting to spend a penny Even those who didn’t need to spend a penny ended up potentially earning a penny as it then meant...

Have Northern always offered Castleford - Manchester Victoria advance singles (via Calder Valley) or is that a new development? Was very useful this morning when I needed a single from Manchester to Castleford at £12.50 rather than £27.60 for an anytime single! Previously you would have to...

I noticed on a recent trip Metrolink seem to have started carrying out a lot more random ticket inspections, I did see a poster at one stop backing this up by 'an increase of 50%' Have yet to see a plain clothes inspection this was just the Hi Vis army boarding at random stops (and also...

Thanks :) Think I would have actually liked them to interview me just for some experience of an interview process at a rail operator but never mind no doubt something else will come up in the future I'm certainly used to 'internal candidate already pretty much signed the dotted line but HR...

I applied for a job with Northern (in the corporate department) around 3 weeks ago, heard nothing until today when I received the following update :- "We’re contacting you to let you know that unfortunately the role is no longer available and has been withdrawn from our hiring plans." Is that...

Not a “company” in the traditional sense I guess but it looks like the ‘Prime’ drink craze is well and truly done and dusted, supermarkets struggling to shift them even after several reductions… …also I just walked through Manchester Piccadilly station where people were on the concourse handing...

I am confused as to why many TransPennine Express services seem to be cancelled the past couple of days with the reason being ‘industrial action’ when their industrial action is Thursday

Can't say I've ever had a problem with a Travelodge, certainly nothing large enough that has put me off staying in one and they're often much cheaper than Premier Inn in the same vicinity I do like the Travelodge Manchester Piccadilly Gardens which has been refurbished recently - the only odd...

The old Transdev Go app has now been completely disabled so it can't even be used for the far superior tracking facilities which are (were!) still a million times better than the new app even after several updates now I couldn't help noticing that the social media channels have actually...

I suspect it may be down to how the pandemic has changed business travel quite significantly, previously they would have had many business people staying over who would probably have a meal at the hotel (and then claim it back on expenses of course!), now they just do their meetings over Zoom or...

Hopefully the horses and humans make a speedy and full recovery, but I've been randomly thinking about how insurance may work for the damaged vehicles as a result...probably not every day an insurance company deals with 'yeah so a horse sort of galloped into my car'

Seems like a bit of a ‘niche’ choice of food for the passing train passenger trade, especially next to McDonalds

Aziz Tayub has seemingly now retired from running Poundstretcher and flogged the business to Fortress (a US investment firm), new operations team seems to consist of a few ex Morrisons management staff Will be interesting to see if they can make a go of actually sorting the business out and...