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    Names that associate with jobs

    The weather presenter, Sara Blizzard.
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    Rail replacement rights

    Trainline is offering me the following Ipswich to Leeds journey departing at 17:58 on 11th Sep which is presumably what the OP is now facing: 17:58 Ipswich 18:58 Ely Greater Anglia train to Ely 19:24 Ely 20:34 Peterborough Rail replacement bus 20:48 Peterborough 22:02 York LNER train to...
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    ECS from Fort William to Queen Street, then on to Edinburgh with passengers.
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    The sleeper called at Queen Street for these passengers to board, but not until shortly after midnight, so over a 2.5 hour connection from the inbound Scotrail service. Time spent waiting around at Queen Street when I bet most passengers were expecting to be tucked up in bed at that point!
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    Supermarket Self Service Tills

    They can give notes as part of the change. I would guess they either go out of service or switch to only accepting card payments if the change reserves get too low.
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    Supermarket Self Service Tills

    You scan your Clubcard to release a scanner at the start of your shop in Tesco so it’s linked to you that way. The system will have identified you as a first time user hence a fairly thorough check. When I started using it several years ago I got checks on my first 3 or so shops with no errors...
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    Morrisons to close all stores on Boxing Day

    Boxing Day is Sunday 26th December this year. The associated public holiday is on Tuesday 28th December. Monday 27th December is the public holiday date for Christmas Day (which falls on Saturday).
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    Models for the cost of car ownership

    Tesla V3 Superchargers are capable of delivering peak charge rates up to 250kW.
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    ScotRail Highland Explorer ticket price

    According to https://www.scotrail.co.uk/scotrail-highland-explorer The ScotRail Highland Explorer carriage has 24 seats as well as 20 cycle spaces. Seats in this carriage will be reserved for those who purchase a 'Highland Explorer ticket'. If you buy a Highland Explorer ticket, you'll benefit...
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    ScotRail Highland Explorer ticket price

    BRFares lists the following adult advance purchase fares between Glasgow and Oban: £56.00 Highland Explorer Return £50.90 Highland Explorer Off-Peak Return £41.60 Highland Explorer Off-Peak Day Return £37.20 Highland Explorer Single There is also a £10 walk-up Highland Explorer single fare...
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    Max speed on UK network

    Under UK law a car speedometer is permitted to over-indicate the true speed by quite a margin, but it must never indicate a speed Lower than that at which the vehicle is travelling. Because of this and to allow for tyre wear, etc. speedos are designed to over read slightly.
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    TOD collections onboard?

    Ticket on Departure - allows tickets purchased in advance to be collected from a ticket vending machine (TVM) up to the point of departure using a reference number and payment card (usually needs to be the card used to pay for the tickets, unless the order has been set up to allow collection...
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    Trainline/GWR anti-fraud partnership

    I wonder what the volume of refund fraud is across the network and whether Trainline are coming under any scrutiny from the industry for facilitating easy refunds of tickets that haven’t been clipped during the journey? I imagine people are far more likely to try it on if they just need to tap a...
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    Restriction QU Cardiff to Tunbridge Wells 08/08/21

    Based on the price, it sounds like trainsplit have provided you split tickets for this journey. Can you confirm the split point(s) and ticket type for each ticket as this will affect the answer.

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