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A door open in traffic is not normally something that the RAIB would investigate. It would probably fall under 'another incident that could have caused death or serious injury had the circumstances been slightly different' so would therefore have had to be be reported to the RAIB immediately but...

M&S (and a few other retailers) have closed back/side entrances at a number of stores as it means there are less entrances/exits to monitor for shoplifters who tend to prefer these entrances. They've obviously done their sums looking at the cost in lost sales from those who don't want to walk...

That's really weird, I recently appealed a penalty fare on behalf of someone based on the signage being incorrect. The appeal was successful at the second go, the reason given for the appeal being successful was 'due to the machine not functioning correctly' even though I believe the machine was...

The first three questions will be along the lines of. What do you know about Northern, what do you know about the job of conductor, why do you think you would fit the role. These are fairly easy to prepare an answer for. The rest of the questions will be competency based, along the lines of :-...

What's the line speed? Can't be more than 40? Surely a low line speed would only need a proportionately short overrun?

They do, but this sounds like a TIR was completed as a penalty fare can only be issued at the time not retrospectively by post. It sounds like the OP has been offered an out of court settlement not a penalty fare.

They are entirely separate. There is no longer any national standard tests for conductors although some TOCs choose to use psychometric tests as part of the recruitment process.

They could, if the DFT approved the spend on leasing costs, the cost of crew and maintenance staff training, the ongoing running and maintenance costs, and paid for somewhere for these units to be stabled and serviced as Northerns depots and sidings are pretty full already. The chances of this...

I'm not sure of the year, I'm guessing it was the late noughties that Manchester got a regular hourly service to Bristol with some extensions to Plymouth and Paignton, and trains from the north east got an hourly service to Reading. Prior to that the Manchester trains mostly went to Reading /...

195s have run via Bolton right from when they started in service. When the Lake District to Manchester Airport service generally ran via Wigan, there was an early evening service that ran non stop from Preston to Oxford Rd through Bolton.

Whilst the fares to the customer are the same, it's often the case with local authority discounts to students aged 16 or over that the train operator is subsidised by the authority for the full or part difference between the fare paid by the passenger and the full adult fare. Where a child...

These are not new roles they are replacing expected retirements and those moving to other companies.

Preston to Liverpool stations tickets Anytime and Off Peak tickets are available as e-tickets. These are valid via Hunts Cross, Ormskirk or Kirkby on Merseyrail.

There is already a scheduled hourly shuttle on the Windermere branch. It's not possible to add another train in to do this without changing this schedule, which would inconvenience locals. This also doesn't automatically line up.with paths on the WCML either due to freight paths so they can't...

That is true but generally early shifts for driver start before 7am and finish by 4pm, late shifts start between 10am and 4pm and finish between 7pm and 3am. So there isn't much travel at peak time. There are shifts at Victoria that finish about 10pm and it can take over an hour to get out of...