Recent content by Bunglejim

TPE guards at York sign from Newcastle/Redcar/Scarborough through to Liverpool and Manchester Airport. They sign all the TPE North diversions, Calder Valley, Leeds to Hudds via Normanton and Leeds to York via Castleford. They sign both 185 and 802 traction. That work is spread across two links...

Depends on the routing, it can also be better staff wise for southbound traffic to run via Crewe.

The reverser comes in three types, pole, screw and power. Pole is best for shunting locos where lots of direction changes are required, but can be difficult to notch up with steam on. However really tough drivers will still try to beat the engine and won’t reduce power whilst notching up...

I believe Leeds barrier is now in fine everyone mode. The penalty fare area is quickly covering all routes now. I was told about a fare anomaly at Saltaire the other week which caused a young lad severe distress. The TVM showed a CDS to Crossflats at £999,999.00. Most of us would look at that...

Ok, apologies if you know how the ticketing structure works, but I’ll try to explain using Mirfield to Huddersfield as an example. The any permitted single is £2.30. Both Northern and TPE operate those service so after splitting they would get £1.15 each. In May TPE introduced its TPE only...

Indeed. Most of the silly alterations to the CIS at Leeds have been done with the best intentions, just maybe needed a bit more discussion in the office before implementing?

Since the May timetable there has been a price war between Northern and TPE on some routes, Leeds to Huddersfield being one of them. To try and prevent confrontation on the train with passengers having the wrong operator tickets, the badly worded ‘Northern Only’ line is shown not just at Leeds...