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It just shows you whatever wheeze you dream up to scam the railway or others it quickly unravels especially in the digital age

the point is the guard may recollect things differently to what we've been told

But if the train was so crowded how did the guard get through ?

Unfortunately what seems a good idea on paper is absolutely useless , they usually fall apart in minutes. I had great pleasure once demolishing a managers idea of restructuring the leave pattern which would have left 90% of the people on leave on one shift.

Wouldn't someone who worked at Wembley know that there weren't guards on their trains into Marylebone ?

Not when it's 3 months out of date

They get the usual quotes in it from people on lower earning jobs wishing drivers were paid less instead of themselves worth more. I wonder how many of the rent a quote mob actually know what being a driver entails ?

Sit on their lap

And all those possibly delayed because people can't turn up on time don't count ?

What happens if you get out and leave the station and for some reason the train departs early and without you ?

I noticed that last month on various journeys, loads of building work at stations making them hard to get through, I'm disabled. The trains were just as bad, lots of delays and over crowding even in 1st class as I had a 1st class Interrail. Even on the journey back to Brussels from Koln there...

Is ticket assistance someone standing around ? Looks like GTR, even Victoria and Brighton going that way, madness

Or someone went sick and someone forgot to cover that train , happens too

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But you had somebody on board the train which is my point, why wasn't he contacted or did he contact him. For all they knew he could have been sat with the guard having a chat and forgot the time which has happened many a time there. You had a second safety critical trained person on the train...

I was asking as others have what was he doing and why wasn't he concerned with something that wasn't right, you have a guard on the train but stop a passing train to check if things were ok ?

It was a 313 so had a conductor on board, having worked thousands of trains terminating at West Worthing and going to the sidings and back the conductor/guard should have suspected something was wrong if the Littlehampton had gone past and you didn't get the road. The conductor would have been a...

You terminate in the platform , clear the train go into the sidings, change ends and back to the upside for the return journey. Guard is with the train at all times which is why it's strange nothing much is made of him in the report

And we got no pay rise for that year as IIRC it was the second year of a pay deal and it was inflation as the % of the rise. So we didn't get one, now with inflation the other way they won't pay up

Working out of Brighton the worst day was Gay Pride day, drink, drugs, sex and violence in full sight on the trains. Made the football traffic look like a vicars tea party. No football trains and travel can compare to the 70's and 80's , anyone who travelled in those days were in fear of their...