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Newton's third law of dynamics would apply, likely resulting in injury or damage inside the train from a selfie stick suddenly being catapulted at speed. I'm sure other affected parties might care.

Targeted services coming back in December, I suspect a handful of peak time trains and maybe first and last but have no firm intel.

It draws in hot air from the radiators and from outside generally. I've had 158s which were 30c inside but outside was 38c. It was doing its job as it should do and reducing the temperature.

My policy is generally "honesty pays", come and ask for help and I'll help, take the decision away from me and I'll follow the rules.

There is an increasing number of people who chance it and buy a ticket 1 or 2 minutes before they see you, or say "I'm just loading it" whilst making lots of taps and holding their phone in an uncomfortable way to avoid it pointing towards me. In the past few months the scanning apps have all...

Sleaford to Norwich is by far cheaper than Grantham to Norwich, by virtue of it being priced via the closed route from Spalding to March.

Just missing out is Matlock to Matlock Bath (1m 7ch) and Matlock Bath to Cromford (63ch).

Sometimes it just isn't possible to provide information. I recently dealt with a medical emergency onboard my train, which whilst obvious to those who had boarded in that coach, it won't have been noticed by those elsewhere, and my priorities at that time were dealing with emergency services...

171201, 202, 401 and 402 are indeed coming to EMR at some point this year.

It is has been recommended to me and others to use body worn video (BWV) to record encounters such as issuing a Unpaid Fares Notice so that it can be used as evidence if necessary. It is there to protect me and the person/people being filmed from any misconstruction of the truth. The footage is...

An update for EMR. Lincoln Senior Conductors no longer have Nottingham to Skegness route knowledge except perhaps one or two, or Nottingham to Worksop, new entrants aren't being trained on Worksop and current conductors will lose all work up there from May, so in the fullness of time it will...

I use a British Rail leather satchel which goes over my shoulder and can be repositioned to my front side should I be doing a run of tickets to allow quicker access. It has three compartments so allows me to separate notes, silver and pounds. 1p and 2p, and 5p go in their own bags inside the...

Same as last years with 15x and additional stops at Netherfield, Radcliffe and Bingham on some. Both starting at Derby in the path of a Matlock to Nottingham so calling all intermediate stops between those two. 1646135411 None at all, but the only one running right now is the last Matlock to...

I think it's a multitude of issues really. The Mansfield terminators never had adequate time to turnaround, 3mins and no additional time allowed for a running brake test. The resilience was never there after Bulwell lost its second platform to the tram so delays would usually continue through...

I've been provided the above information by a rep.

The wording itself was a carbon copy of the wording for the 12th March tour which is out and back via the WCML to Hellifield. Hence the confusion and the need for it to be changed to reflect this tours different route.

The first departures from Nottingham ECS are pre 4am, the units will at 3am will still be getting shunted and prepared for the days service. Having been a regular there are such hours for many years now I can assure you that the majority won't have been running. Its quite common to turn up at...

The kitchen car(s) are the Pullman Kitchen Second Car No.335 and Kitchen First 'Eagle'.

There appears to be a proposal to transfer most calls at Longport to the WMR franchise from May, to speed up the EMR service and make it more reliable. Very tight consultation deadline however.

There's some reductions taking place from Monday but that's due to Covid/Omicron, the Sunday timetable remains the same as the strike timetable but with Norwich services running as part of the same reduction. The services which should have been added back into the timetable are also staying...