There should be a contingency plan in place which allows for some coverage north of Preston though this might indeed impact on the southbound service.
Have LUL/London Overground now de-staffed Wembley Central, Kenton, etc.? There always used to be ‘continuous’ staff at these locations.
The lady in question is no stranger to simple answers to complex issues ...
My understanding is that the contract requires stations to be staffed; @parkender102 do you have any evidence staff have been removed at these station?
No they haven’t. The stations still have staff rostered 24/7, except for Christmas Day and short periods where the staff may wish to take a meal break. In the instance of Wembley Central this is staffed at all times trains are running, as it is considered a sub-surface station and has minimum staffing numbers in accordance with the law and London Underground standards.
Will they use real milk not powdered? I find this unbelievable in this day and age!
Yes.
What is "SDO" and "NOC" please?
Fairly standard business practice "pile it high, sell it cheap" If trains were cheaper, more people would use them, so they'd get more money.
NOC is the National Operations Centre. It is based is MK but has a office in London too. The SDO is the senior BTO officer based in London, which is in the same building as TfL and the London NOC which allows for better communication.
Does it really? Hotels in London are £150 per night, plus the lost productivity the day before
I happened to be there at the time
Having to stand long distance is the worst advertisement for the railways there is. If the government wants to be green and environmental, increasing railway subsidy is the best way of doing it. Even increased travel on diesel trains is better for the air as more people are in one coach than in one roadcar. As usual though, short termism rules all decision making in government.
Well they aren't if very few are paying them. That makes them uncompetitive.
I can assure you that, certainly in my part of the public sector, there would be no pay or TOIL either. After all, we are not paid for the time it takes us to commute to work in normal circumstances.
You would be correct there. Though wasn’t that the response at Kenton station? I know that Kenton was the designated access point and all resources were sent there with Harrow being the other end to be restricted to keep the scene sterile I suppose. I know that they followed standard procedure including with 2O41 and i suppose it was all on forensics probably so they could work how the person got on the tracks in the first place though they also had information that none of us did and didn’t release it.
I believe it was introduced as a safety thing and I guess if Virgin didn't change it then Avanti have got no chance. Maybe I was misinformed but that's what I've always been told.
Really? Worse than charging £400 for a ticket then cancelling two consecutive trains and cancelling the last train back and making no alternative provision and making people, who have already paid £400, pay more to sort themselves out? Standing is a problem many train travellers dream of.
I’m due to do a meeting in London next month. An advanced single there and back is less than £150 and a travelodge is around £80. An anytime return is just shy of £400, so my attitude is that if I go down the day before and have a night in a hotel, I arrive fresh and relaxed and ready to go, not frazzled from using the British transport system and I’ve still saved the company nearly £170. I can’t do Teams calls or phone calls from the train, but I can’t do teams in the car either. I can do email, research, training or various other tasks, so productivity wise, the train edges the car out. Hence, I only travel in work time, unless there’s a chance of getting home at a reasonable time!
