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    Seasonal Rail Jobs, esp Driving

    Is anyone aware of train companies that hire seasonal workers, say for a period of 6 months or permanent jobs where the contractual hours can be compressed? In particular for qualified drivers, where for example you might work for X number of months then have X months off work, Realise it's a...
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    GB Station extremities- highest, lowest etc

    Just wanted to see if my understanding is right on this: All apply to mainline and Great Britain mainland stations. Highest elevation: Corrour Lowest elevation: Shippea Hill ???? Most Northerly: Thurso Most Easterly: Lowestoft Most Southerly: Penzance Most Westerly: Arisaig In the absence...
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    Adding TWO or more discounts to an Oyster card

    Hi Oyster Fare Experts! Not sure how common this is or if people have any experience. Is it possible to add two discounts to an oyster? In particular, would it be possible to add a staff leisure (priv) card (issued to non safeguarded staff) which gives national rail discount but not tube, and...
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    WCML stopping patterns and journey times

    Moderator Note: posts #1-#15 originally in this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/caledonian-sleeper.176365/ There was one that if not exactly 4 hrs from EUS to gLc was very close,. Think it left eus at 1630 and only stopped at Preston (crew change). Used it a few times but can't...
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    Wallers Ash (near Winchester) Landslip 27/8/20

    A small Landslip near Wallers Ash tunnel has caused debris to block both lines. XC service struck landslip but no derailmemt. Pic from Network Rail Wessex Twitter (though presume from back cab of the XC unit).
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    Fire & Rehire for railway jobs, especially Train Drivers.

    With British Airways and British Gas proposing to fire and rehire many of their employees on inferior contracts, what is the general opinion on whether this could become widespread and reach the railways? If as seems likely, the government will have almost complete control of railway franchises...
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    SSP (station/airport food outlets) job loses.

    More bad news on the jobs front with upto 5000 jobs going from station and airport retailers SSP. As they've all been closed since March and still massive reductions in footfall at stations, I'd imagine many won't reopen any time soon. From BBC News:
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    The Flying Scotsman - Slow Radio - 2330 - 31 May 2020

    "We take a journey back in time to recreate the golden age of steam, travelling on the Flying Scotsman from Manchester to Carlisle. We have privileged access to the footplate of this iconic engine which weighs 100 tonnes and is nearly 100 years old. We hear coal being shovelled from the tender...
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    Drivers/Guards etc. Messrooms & Trains - COVID19 measures.

    Can't see a thread on this topic although it's been touched in in one of trainee threads about training courses being postponed. This is aimed at productive staff. 1) What measures has your TOC/FOC introduced in messrooms, especially in the way of social distancing and provision of adequate...
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    The trains that time forgot - BBC4

    Not sure if listed elsewhere, but first of six programmes currently running on BBC 4. Fascinating!
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    SWR Longest Strike - December 2019

    So today is day 1 of the SWR month long December strike after 38 days of other strikes over the past couple of years. One news report suggested it is the longest continuous strike in railway history, but I've not checked that c!aim tbh. How are people's experiences of travelling so far and will...
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    My ideas to stop ROSCOs and other companies making profits

    Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/class-442s-storage-refurbishment-and-redeployment.127422/page-128#post-4102004 In general no TOC owns any of the rolling stock , the ROSCOs own it all, and they are just finance companies trying to get as much profit as they can...
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    Over reliance on Real Time Trains and other data sources

    At the outset, I'll say that the listings provided by Real Time Trains, Open Train Times, Traksy etc are all a great and useful addition to real time info and are often used by rail staff as well as enthusiasts and the public. However, I'm beginning to wonder if there is an over reliance on...
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    online PRV on Cal Sleeper

    Has the ability to book PRV tickets online for the cal sleeper stopped. I can see plenty of available berths without prv, but none on various routes/dates when trying to get a prv?
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    Top Railway Jobs

    Another thread got me thinking what people consider to be the 'best' railway jobs. Taking into account multiple factors, such as job satisfaction, terms and conditions, benefits, pay, people, work life balance,stress, effect on health etc etc. Whatever factors you think might make up the best...
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    Gatwick Express Drivers

    Hi, Any GX drivers here or Southern drivers in the know? From a drivers point of view are Gatwick express and southern run separately or do gx drivers do southern work, (including metro work)? I'm assuming gx only have a depot at Victoria. Otherwise, is gx work just half hourly gatwicks and...
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    Wareham to Weymouth overrunning engineering works. 13-15/5

    Oh dear....... Due to overrunning engineering works between Weymouth and Wareham all lines are closed. Train services running to and from these stations will be cancelled. Disruption is expected until the end of the day on 15/05/18. A Network Rail engineering train has broken down between...
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    SWR: Guards/RMT Industrial Action. Next strike dates: 30/31 August, 1/2 September 2019

    RMT have announced further dates in the guards dispute on SWR with no rest day working or late changes to guards duties from 0001 Good Friday 30/3 to 2359 Easter Monday 2/4 Details on rmt website and Twitter
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    Route/break of journey query - Glasgow to London Terminals

    If I have a off peak return from Glasgow to London Terminals (£142.50) validity 3A, I understand I can use: 1) Glasgow central to London Euston direct 2) Glasgow queen Street to Edinburgh then down east coast to kings cross 3) Glasgow central to Carlisle then via settle on s and c to Leeds...
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    Passengers abandon train at Lewisham with 3rd rails still live.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-43266245 Apparently this train was held here for 3 hours. I imagine it's a DOO service but after an hour a controlled evacuation should have been authorised with the necessary switch off and block. It's perfectly understandable why people are...

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