Recent content by pitdiver

Many years ago one of my relations chartered a whole train for Post Office Telephone employees. This was our from local station, Bowes Park, to Blackpool. On the return that was quite late the staff at Blackpool decided that our private train was the only way they could move a number football...

Hope it's sorted soon. It's a PITA in theory having to go to either Mansfield or Worksop to buy perhaps a complicated ticket.

Priv tickets are not available on line for ex LUL employees. We are still waiting for TfL to sort it out.

As a matter of interest I hold a PTAC. So tickets I purchase are marked PRIV. Every time I have travelled on EMR I have been asked to show it. This does seem strange as I can only purchase PRIV tickets from a booking office who always ask to see my PTAC.

Then on Sundays the service only runs as far as Mansfield Woodhouse. Us in poor old Shirebrook and others are stuck.

Didn't they crane load cars onto those two vessels? I'm sure I saw that being done in the early 60s.

Wasn't Caesarea a BR Sealink vessel that sailed between Weymouth and Jersey/Guernsey?

One of my past jobs meant going to Birmingham on a regular basis. At the time I was living in Milton Keynes so it wasn't that difficult for me to get there for 1000hrs. However some other people attending these meetings would have to come from Southampton, Manchester, Newcastle and Cardiff. So...

All this concern about uniform. When I joined in 1989 as a Booking Clerk we didn't have uniforms. Did eventually get issued with one but can't remember when. Can any ex LUL booking clerks say when that was?

That would be great as EMA is my local airport. We are regular users of jet2 holidays from there. But they don't fly to Egypt as easyJet do but from Luton so we have to drive down to LIA. That adds two hrs to the journey. Whereas we only 35mins from EMA.

Although a member of this forum I have never travelled on the far north line. However have driven it on the way to Scrabster to catch the ferry to Orkney.

A few years ago when I was working for LUL I got off a train at Watford Jct. I was in uniform. I heard a female voice say " Excuse me Porter can you carry my bag" I. did excuse myself saying I wasn't on duty

As a resident of Warsop Vale (5 mins from Shirebrook Stn) any improvement in the service on the Robin Hood line would be welcome. That is apart from a Sunday service which I would expect it to be carrying fresh air.

As an ex LUL station supervisor I would never stand in the way and I would tell my staff to do the same. I knew of an incident where a member of LUL chased a fare evader out of the station and round the corner only to be confronted with the evader wielding a knife. We weren't paid to put our...

Thanks for that useful information. It's significance is now clear.