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    ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend

    I’m fairly sure you realise that I meant anybody involved with the match. The nearest possible venue for the final is Brackley, roughly halfway between London and Birmingham.
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    ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend

    Tube strike- they’ve swapped the day with the National League North promotion final, which happens at a club ground so there shouldn’t be any need for anybody to go anywhere near London.
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    Merseyrail mandates that Trainline tickets must be printed out

    Part of the problem is that it would mean disabling the e-ticket option on any open ticket which could possibly be used between Liverpool South Parkway and Central or Moorfields on the Northern Line.
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    Merseyrail mandates that Trainline tickets must be printed out

    Day Savers are less than the price of a point to point return from my parents’ local station in Birkenhead to West Kirby, but more than a return to New Brighton. When Northern had their last flash sale, I used one in conjunction with a Leeds-Chester £1 single to go over to Birkenhead for about...
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    Princess of Wales has cancer

    Private schools tend to have shorter terms than state ones, probably a hangover from when most of them were boarding schools and the pupils had to travel home at the end of term. You wouldn’t have thought that Princess of Wales was a particularly hazardous occupation, but the last one to become...
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    ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend

    And I think this is where the heart of the matter lies. The Treasury mentality is to tell departments “this is how much you can have” rather than going out and proactively finding the money to do things. Ministers don’t generally have the time or the inclination to look critically at the...
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    LNER to offer free period products on trains

    On a similar note, I remember reading about a British embassy in a country where contraception was frowned upon, which decided to promote safe sex by having a free supply of condoms in the toilets for both sexes. The ambassador was shocked when somebody at the Foreign Office took him up on...
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    Liverpool to Worcester Train Strike

    In theory, it ought to be possible to do the following: Merseyrail or TfW Liverpool-Chester TfW Chester-Hereford GWR Hereford-Worcester
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    Ticket Inspectors onboard buses.

    Somebody I worked with about 20 years ago had a boyfriend who worked for one of the student unions in Leeds, who used to run her one off every year. Had my first encounter with a couple of these inspectors the week before last - one person was sent to the driver to buy a new weekly ticket, but...
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    Man arrested at Liverpool Central over ticket row won't face prosecution

    Merseyrail do have problems keeping their ticket offices staffed, it seems. I visit family in Birkenhead about once every month-six weeks and the ticket window at their local station is regularly unstaffed. Indeed, one Saturday afternoon the ticket office at Conway Park had a “please pay at...
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    Trivia: More than one operator on town services

    The 965 in Otley (West Yorkshire) is operated by Connexions during the week up until early evening, then by Transdev as an extension of the Bradford-Airport-Otley A3.
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    Merseyrail legacy fleet updates (Class 507/508)

    One interesting development is that there seems to be a track fault affecting Platform 2 at Birkenhead North, so I may well have had my last 507 rides into and out of Platform 1.
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    Merseyrail legacy fleet updates (Class 507/508)

    777024 is on the xx23s from New Brighton so be warned! Just passed at Grove Road.
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    Class 503 disposal

    It’s natural that the SUB would attract more support given that the units operated pretty much every local route out of Waterloo and Victoria for nearly 40 years. The ability to work with a 33,73 or MLV opens the door to operating the unit (and getting some revenue in) without it needing to be...
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    Three potential new stations in Liverpool City Region

    I think there’s a certain amount of pork barrel going on here- the most recent new stations have been in the Liverpool/Knowsley/Sefton area, so it’s time to spend money in Wirral, St Helens and Halton. The Metro Mayor has to be seen to be spreading the money around as there’s still a lot of...

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