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Xmas Train Alert - Some Windy Weather.....
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theboybilly
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Indeed Class 442s can be split, though being older stock the procedure is a little more labour intensive as Platform staff have to be trained to work outside the train. You also need two Drivers to perform the brake test as Conductors or On-board staff no longer have the competency. There is also a problem that can occur in that there may be a reason to route a train into another platform, say at Haywards Heath, and the pipes which need to be disconnected are then on the wrong side (ie. away from the platform) In the 'through' platforms at Haywards Heath this would involve 'blocking' the other line while the work was carried out. This would be almost certainly pooh-poohed by Network Rail and would go part way to explaining why this class of train does not split or join en-route.
Tempted fate I think... Now sat at Hayward's Heath for 15mins with no announcements
Beach Hut
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think my mind is made up now for tomorrow, WFH
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Well we all sort of hate them when they up-furck for trivial reasons under normal operating conditions. Which they do WAY too often. But these are not normal operating conditions.
£1.99
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- Mar 3, 2008
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I don't work in a office so forgive me if my question is silly! but is it not better to work from home? I think if it were me i would prefer to work from home everyday.
HawkTheSeagull
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Should have just left Haywards Heath - section to Ore has been cancelled.
Safest time to check it really so you dont run the risk of sending a train into a tree.
Back on the move. I'd not travel unless necessary really. Seem to be getting trains running just very late. A Brighton service just went past
Beach Hut
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I would not do it all the time as actually it can get very lonely being isolated with no-one to talk to. I tend to WFH one day a week these days, I have found recently as you get older the commuting makes me far more tired.
worthingseagull123
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- May 5, 2012
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Great time to announce the fare rises.
After a shockingly bad years performance from Southern, it is a shame the government dont have the balls to prevent any fare rises.
http://www.southernrailway.com/sout...-express-tickets-in-its-january-fares-review/
After a shockingly bad years performance from Southern, it is a shame the government dont have the balls to prevent any fare rises.
http://www.southernrailway.com/sout...-express-tickets-in-its-january-fares-review/
Beach Hut
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trust me I have lost the will to live over this fiasco and when these fares could be made available, bloody government
HawkTheSeagull
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Why would the government prevent them when its them who are ordering the train companies to put the prices up to get passengers to pay for the railway. Still, fair play to Southern for not implementing their own 2% price rise, though that would get completely missed.
worthingseagull123
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I did not realise the government ordered them to put fares up.
Southern could not really have justified the 2% extra. Could you imagine the backlash given how poor over the past 12 months services had been.
It is just frustrating to keep seeing fares rise, when the service is constantly medicore to dire.
HawkTheSeagull
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Here is the result of a train hitting a tree in South London this evening at 50mph, which is slower than what it should have been travelling at.
Had it been doing faster, it would be been incredibly serious. Driver is incredibly lucky.....and probably also in need of new pants.
Here is the result of a train hitting a tree in South London this evening at 50mph, which is slower than what it should have been travelling at.
Had it been doing faster, it would be been incredibly serious. Driver is incredibly lucky.....and probably also in need of new pants.
worthingseagull123
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Sorry mate, your link did not work.
HawkTheSeagull
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Barely any pictures work now - any ideas [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] ?
worthingseagull123
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Safety first mate. Last time of the storm a month or so ago, first train was not till 1230pm so work gave me they day off. I doubt we will see any trains until 9-10am.
Driver of my 07:06 SCC from Preston Park to Bedford got his retaliation in earlydoors this morning. Went flying through Preston Park about 50mph when he realised a bit too late he really should have stopped. Big braking thing with front half of the train ending up off the front of the platform, ten minute wait, then he sheepishly reversed back to where he should have stopped in the first place. Fair play though, made most of the time up en route while still remembering to stop everywhere else he was supposed to stop
He'd have had to have admitted his mistake to his bosses, and got authorisation from above to reverse back into the station.
Otherwise the train would not have been insured, and in the worst cases, court and gaol if life is lost.
So I guess it was Christmas good will from the guy who made the call at FCC HQ.