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@lateturn @ChimeWhistle Also note the subtle wording on "a" train in the depot vice "the" train. So could well be that the allocated unit blocked in or borrowed or countless other reasons. The other problem with RTT is that the codes are only simply explained as well and don't update when re-allocated

@ChimeWhistle "The depot", in this case, consists of a single road shed/fuel point and four short stabling sidings, with most of the 20 or so units stabling overnight in the station after being fuelled and serviced. Hardly spending "all night" with the fitters' undivided attention.

I've done, as a journalist, a number of depot night shifts - reporting on and photographing what happens. Often a train will arrive at the depot with faults and there just isn't the time to fix them all during the night shift.

@RMcCarthy86 @MarkMiddleton37 Well their biscuits are rather nice...

@MarkMiddleton37 Nice! Haworth's lovely, especially outside of the summer when it fills up with Americans looking for the Brontës.

Off to the North country.

@seatsixtyone If that was today, then your service was 4 1/2 late in to Oxford, so if you got to watch the connecting train leave, then you would have made it - if the inbound was on time?

Wonder why they bother showing connections like this? True, I *did* get to see the 15:49 leave in front of me by the time I fought my way over the footbridge, which was nice. But realistically, the 16:19 is the Oxford-Bicester train you’re actually going to end up on, innit? 🤷‍♂️

@cjparry @MrTimDunn Not the Exe Estuary

@pgbswi @MrTimDunn Exe estuary?

And for a @MrTimDunn favourite of view from the train window...guess the location!

@poetwithpace @mrwilldouglas Report says. Coach H - 36 people, Coach G - 42 people. The front two vehicles would seat 48 people. So, how was that crowded when not every seat was full?

@mrwilldouglas @CrossCountryUK Have seen this for decades. I also recall the train tragedy at Paddington 1999 which killed many because of crowded at front. I may suggest lobby your MP and transport minister.

That was the worst and most unsafe train journey I’ve experienced. @CrossCountryUK you should be ashamed. You lay on a dirty, old train. And allow it to fill to the gunnels. People jammed in filling toilets, vestibules and luggage hold areas. Elderly and disabled people, and mums with young kids treated like cattle. Packed in like sardines. Plus no audible information - tannoy so quiet no one could hear. It’s dangerous for people to travel squashed like this and had I been travelling with my wife and children I’d have got off. From what I can see on X this is a regular occurrence. Mark my words - if there is a major tragedy involving an overcrowded train like this there will be horrendous and unnecessary loss of lives, and people rightly going to jail for turning a blind eye. XC Trains Ltd / Crosscountry Trains - you need to find a way to put the passengers before your profits and shareholders.

“” …. and Advance - splitters” “and Restore - splitters” “We’re Restore!” “Oh, I thought we were Reform?” “Restore!” “”Whatever happened to Advance?” “”He’s over there” “Splitter!”

Tories are blue Labour is red If you vote Reform You're thick in the head #ValentinesDay

@MarkMiddleton37 @ChimeWhistle Exactly that. Download it and then never scan it. Then claim never used. Suspect when it has all gone tits up you'll be able to claim an abandoned journey.

@ChimeWhistle Apparently fraudulent refunds cost the industry 40 million a year. So one brief says.

Changes to ticket conditions to be announced on 1 March. From 1 April, walk up tickets will only be refundable up to 23.59 the day before they become valid for travel.From the date a ticket becomes valid for travel, passengers will have no right for a refund on an unused ticket.

Just needed the right set for it to be spot on!

@RobinMoseley778 @dimenpsyonal Up Line (reversible) open this morning and traffic moving. Which considering the waves at Dawlish station were managing to get about 50m inland is rather impressive! Credit to those teams that were out there to sort it out!

@dimenpsyonal Not sure you understand what the word “constant” means. Your own chart shows it is 12 yeas since the last major disruption. This isn’t even the sea defences. You can see the concrete defences behind the wall are intact. This wall will be sorted in quick time.

Like. Bro. In a sensible country this constant disruption CANNOT be worth whatever the cost is to reroute it further inland

@AndyRoden1 @PaulMBigland The Dawlish webcams are impressive. Waves going over the top of the station and landing on the road to the car park!

@PaulMBigland Looks like it! A good call to stay home today, I think.

Crikey - not good at all.

Looks like I won't be getting in to America then!

@tcnoca @peopledisplacer Let's allow the OP to do the maths on it. Assume the railway operates for 363 days a year for 21 hours a day. How many minutes per hour are put to train drivers?

Go look up the 2024 FOI request to Network Rail where all of this stuff was reported. Drivers are overwhelmingly the greatest source of rail delays, as well as a huge drain on finances via union-inflated pay. Given all they do is sit on their ass and push the odd button, it’s about time they were automated out of existence. Good riddance.

Deflect because we're chatting shit. Yes, I do work on the railway. It's how I know drivers are rarely the cause of train delays.

@Captain_Deltic @paultrowntree @ChimeWhistle @ClarkeMicah @stephen37292ML Be interesting to know how big the above person thinks the "army" actually is!?

@paultrowntree @ChimeWhistle @ClarkeMicah @stephen37292ML We need the data from delay attribution to determine what went wrong and take action to stop it happening again . That's how you win Golden Spanners. But privatisation adding pound notes gave it a bad name.

.@stephen37292ML . All this and a Guard's Van too, in which you could easily put your bike without reservation fuss or getting in the way of other passengers. How I miss BR. But all its attackers can do is make (untrue) attacks on the sandwiches.

@GordonDudman @ChimeWhistle @ClarkeMicah @stephen37292ML Well said. Although prime cause not root cause as potentially the root cause could be different!

@ChimeWhistle @ClarkeMicah @stephen37292ML "Blame"? Surely you mean investigate the root cause if delays to trains?

@commuterdramas Nope. Annoys me as well. Merseyrail used to employ rent-a-thug to deal with it (amongst other things!)

Does anyone else get annoyed by feet on the seats or is it just me?

@John_The_Fitter You do realise that the reason used refers to the original incident and may not refer to the train in question?

I wonder what happened here, surely not a fault on an AZUMA train?

@SarahWoods66 Absolute Yobbo driving Lyd 😅

What Mr P and work chums got up to while I was at work on Saturday- there is some stunning footage here youtu.be/XaiPKrEano0?si…

@ChimeWhistle Might want to check your geography on that one. Hartlebury / Bewdley served Stourport, not Kidderminster.

Today marks 56 years since BR closed the Kidderminster to Stourport route. Photograph of D9551 and 813 double heading out of Kidderminster n 2019. flic.kr/p/2rPWi1C @svrofficialsite