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If a train is cancelled by operator A, and the next available train is operated by operator B, are the passengers holding an advance purchase or TOC specific ticket entitled to travel on the next available train (even if operator B) or must they wait for the next train by operator A?
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A cynical election year scheme using our imaginary HS2 money. The gig is up, they're toast this year either way.
I will believe it when I see it. They'll spunk that £350m on consultants and then decide not to do it.
If you're 30 and buy a 26-30 railcard, ensure you activate it before your 31st birthday otherwise it will bug out and there's nothing trip.com can do. My OH bought one before her birthday with view to buying the "activating" ticket when she needed it within the 30 days as stated by Trip. But...
If the UK train operations were in Japan I'm sure most of the exec would have resigned in shame. There is no way that the standard would be tolerated, whether the cracking or interiors of train being held together with tape.
I wouldn't get hyped into the idea that it being a Japanese company would make it any better. Take Hitatchi in the UK, it's Japanese style in nothing but name.
I'm not sure if/why OP is being coy with the "terminus", but for context this was played at Portsmouth Harbour to avoid people flushing the contents of their bowels into the Solent. Portsmouth Harbour is built on a pier. Obviously its obsolete now because all GWR stock has CET.
Shouldn't be putting colleagues in an awkward position asking to go on ECS without the permission of relevant control. And at that point it's not really ECS if it has a passenger.
P.S not sure how this makes staff more important than pax.
I remember working a train that had all stops taken out due to late running and we ended up passing what would have been the penultimate station early. I was cringing as we passed the station very slowly waiting for the signal come off as the passengers stood on the platform. That was pre that...