Recent content by PupCuff

Ironically, remaining on the topic of false advertising, you've just taken part of a line out of my post and quoted it in a misleading way which turns it into the opposite of what I've actually said :rolleyes:

I must say I've never quite been able to fathom why enthusiasts trespassing to take photos from the lineside bother wearing high visibility vests. An orange vest isn't suddenly some kind of thing that makes you better than anyone else trespassing on the tracks and it certainly won't offer you...

The thing is, when XC's first class is fully available, it's a good offer. Appropriate food and/or snack items for the length of journey, decent quality drinks etc, friendly attentive and regular service from hosts - some other TOCs can be very impersonal with the catering service delivery. The...

It's really good to see you're keen and enthusiastic with moving on in your career; 30 isn't too late to go after your first 'real' job if you've done entry level stuff or gig work for a while. Your CV needs extensive work however, if I was recruiting it wouldn't be likely to be progressed...

Qwerty keyboards have been around since the typewriter; it's basically the only keyboard layout anyone alive now (typing in English at least) would have ever used. When a user's suddenly faced with a keyboard with the letters in different places to where they're expecting, it will naturally...

TSSA will most likely be the union for you if it's a management grade one. I'd say it's quite patchy whether people are in TSSA or not, I left a while back because (rightly or wrongly) it felt like they'd put all the effort into their ticket office campaigns at the expense of their management...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, there's absolutely places where I sympathise with passengers who've been written up, out the door queue at a ticket office, all machines bar one down etc. But Liverpool Lime Street isn't one of those places, it's got two separate ticket offices, one...

I wonder if it may be helpful for you to provide a little more information on the project. For example, how is it being funded and what skills does your current team not have that you need? How will it be distributed and retailed and on what platforms? What experience do the existing team have...

Unless you have some significant complication with the treatment (and modern HIV medication is very well tolerated by most) there will be no issue with having HIV in any railway role. The medication will need to be declared and the condition disclosed and discussed on your medical, but things...

Quite. In howevermany years I've seen far more Drivers lose their jobs because of things like inappropriate behaviour at work, falsifying sick leave etc than the tiny number who have left the role following safety incidents. Perpetuating the myth that safety incidents will get you sacked just...

Conductor Manager, in whatever guise each TOC has it, is a good role, however you do tend to become a bit of a jack of all trades with not much room to specialise in anything. In my experience you often find people who go into those roles from being a conductor find it difficult to pick up the...

It's generally best not to get yourself in too much of a tizzy trying to learn stuff before the training, a lot of information out there is wrong, outdated, or applies say to one train company but not another. If you want to get yourself in the vibe, there's usually no harm in familiarising...

I'm certainly happy to defer to their knowledge on structural engineering, but I do take some level of umbrage with their comments on safety investigations. Expecting the RAIB to also investigate generic structural issues which happen to occur on the railway infrastructure is unreasonable; the...

First case is that the train can only stop as fast as it can stop, any intervention before the red signal will only be as effective as the brakes on the train can realistically achieve. If for instance the TPWS on approach to a red signal activates, but the train has reduced braking performance...

Great Britain (I'm not sure on the state of play in NI) ceased to have European Train Driver Licences at the end of the Brexit transition period, they are domestic Train Driver Licenses now. Therefore, unless the Spanish authorities make some concession on accepting recent competence on a former...