Yes, they are entitled to breaks on board and are permitted to block off the table bays nearest the kitchen for this purpose. There are still however signs in the kitchen reminding them of the need to remain professional.
Sheffield TMs don't currently sign 360s unless they've learned them voluntarily.
Yes I'm sure they'd be more interested in throwing away a £31k a year salary for the chance of stealing a bottle of wine that at best would be £10... What utter rot.
Could just go to B&Q and buy a job lot of front doors..
Only the police have the power of search. Anyone can ask you if they can look through your things, but your right is to say no. There is nothing they can then do other than call the police and hope they arrive before you leave.
Not quite correct I'm afraid - see section 24A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 - any person has the power to arrest and detain someone who they observe committing an indictable offence, or who they reasonably suspect of having committed an indictable offence.
I live and learn! Obviously being of such good character I've never had anyone arrest me!
This whole debate has nothing to do with industrial action. For those interested in how it works I suggest you travel on a Robin Hood line train on a Friday or Saturday evening and you'll get the full performance, quite probably witness at least one arrest and see how it's managed, without the silly flapping about bag searches that generally don't happen.
And this, I think, is the sensible approach. If only all railway employees deployed your level of common sense in all matters. Alas, they don't.
I can only say that I know all of the nearly 200 guards who work trains on the Robin Hood line at least in passing and bar one or two possible grey areas that I'd still say almost definitely not, I don't think any of them would walk down the train on a Saturday night asking to check bags for alcohol. Neither would the regular security guards - though sometimes they do get people in to sub if they're short staffed who don't normally work on the trains.
Quite a few places have them these days, they're usually branded "Travelsafe Officers". EMR use them between Lincoln and Boston during the week as well, and in general a team of them are based at Nottingham. The full time staff are a decent bunch of chaps who know the regulars well enough and usually head off the problems before they occur.
Firstly, thank you for your informative explanation of things.
Personally I’d suggest people take your word for it. Having had to endure them on a few of occasions it’s one of the few routes that I’d sooner get a taxi home (and I live at the far end of the line). Those that know me will know I’m not likely to be phased by large groups of drunken people fighting and being threatening but it’s incredibly unpleasant on the southern half of the line.
This was actually a "thing" long before lockdown.
Still off topic but I totally agree. I completely avoid trains out of Nottingham on the Robin Hood Line in Friday and Saturday evenings and either use the bus from Nottingham or travel from Alfreton or Chesterfield instead. It’s horrendous and not just late night trains as those around 7 or 8pm on a Saturday are the worst. It isn’t just extremely unpleasant but extremely intimidating. I always feel sorry for elderly people and families who have used the train after a day out and are caught up in the middle of the drunken crowds.
Mansfield people aren’t like that, are they? (Note, not ‘we’!)
