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Apologies, post edited

It does mention previous offences. It will be a hefty out of court settlement or a day in court

Ahh, then I'm not sure. Unless the train can count/weigh I'm not how that works.

It's to show amount of reservations in each carriage if I recall.

EIther/Or would work.

I would imagine they will end up allocated to Heaton, so all Perkins engined units are in one place, releasing 156s to boost capacity elsewhere.

Class 159 to Exeter St David's

Maintenance training and familiarisation.

The only fix shorter term is to increase the working week for all train crew from 35 hour weeks to a 40 hour week (on average), adding an additional 2 days work every four weeks. That would involve a hefty pay rise and many train crew don't want their working week increased. It would take many...

Both 125mph (designed for 140mph). 805 & 807s currently restricted to 110mph on the WCML.

So according to that, they will receive SDO mods.

All you can do is report their descriptions to Revenue Protection, and state the times they got on and off. Once a pattern of travel builds, RPIs will be aware and organise a sting. Not ideal, but there has been train crew in the North East who has been assaulted for simply asking to see their...

Taking stops out of the service west of Newton Abbot will have minimal effect on timings, due to the low line speed. Newton Abbot, Liskeard, Par, Truro and St Erth are all interchange stations, with the latter two feeding into a 2tph branch line service. There is also a large commuter flow to...

As for the split of through workings, its more likely to take place at Plymouth for capacity reasons, with 80x forwards, with some 175s working to and from exeter on selected workings. Eventually once enough train crew are trained, 175s will work all the way to Cardiff.

For the most part. On a nice summers day, not unsual for a 5 car on a through working to be full and standing. Most will be suffient as a 3 car, but with a few 4 or 5 car services, splitting and joining to best meet demand.