| Re: First it was squirrels..... Posted by Zoe at 14:16, 23rd November 2024 |      |
Next they'll be asking passengers to drive the trains!
Might help with regular driver shortages.
I seem to remember back in the 1990s Great Eastern Railway having the idea of using commuters as guards although it never came to anything.Might help with regular driver shortages.
| Re: First it was squirrels..... Posted by JayMac at 13:47, 23rd November 2024 | |
Next they'll be asking passengers to drive the trains!
Might help with regular driver shortages.
| Re: First it was squirrels..... Posted by Trowres at 12:18, 23rd November 2024 | |
Continuing to widen the theme of weird messaging, this appeared on Journeycheck.com/greatwesternrailway today:
Westbury: Staffing
Westbury station will be single staffed from now until the end of the day.
Additional Information
Please be prepared to assist with dispatch or self dispatch if necessary.
Last Updated:23/11/2024 11:00
Westbury station will be single staffed from now until the end of the day.
Additional Information
Please be prepared to assist with dispatch or self dispatch if necessary.
Last Updated:23/11/2024 11:00
| Re: First it was squirrels..... Posted by UstiImmigrunt at 19:29, 19th November 2024 | |
11:10 Weston-Super-Mare to Severn Beach due 12:23
11:10 Weston-Super-Mare to Severn Beach due 12:23 will be started from Bristol Temple Meads.
It will no longer call at Weston-Super-Mare, Weston Milton, Worle, Yatton, Nailsea & Backwell, Parson Street and Bedminster.
This is due to a fault with the electric third rail earlier today.
Last Updated:19/11/2024 10:18
11:10 Weston-Super-Mare to Severn Beach due 12:23 will be started from Bristol Temple Meads.
It will no longer call at Weston-Super-Mare, Weston Milton, Worle, Yatton, Nailsea & Backwell, Parson Street and Bedminster.
This is due to a fault with the electric third rail earlier today.
Last Updated:19/11/2024 10:18
The stabiliser rail always causes problems.
At a guess the set was pinched to restart a Pompey Cardiff at the Temple Meads of Doom.
| Re: First it was squirrels..... Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 17:56, 19th November 2024 | |
Yes, that third rail at Nailsea & Backwell has always been a bit of an issue ...
| Re: First it was squirrels..... Posted by Trowres at 11:57, 19th November 2024 | |
11:10 Weston-Super-Mare to Severn Beach due 12:23
11:10 Weston-Super-Mare to Severn Beach due 12:23 will be started from Bristol Temple Meads.
It will no longer call at Weston-Super-Mare, Weston Milton, Worle, Yatton, Nailsea & Backwell, Parson Street and Bedminster.
This is due to a fault with the electric third rail earlier today.
Last Updated:19/11/2024 10:18
11:10 Weston-Super-Mare to Severn Beach due 12:23 will be started from Bristol Temple Meads.
It will no longer call at Weston-Super-Mare, Weston Milton, Worle, Yatton, Nailsea & Backwell, Parson Street and Bedminster.
This is due to a fault with the electric third rail earlier today.
Last Updated:19/11/2024 10:18
| Re: First it was squirrels..... Posted by Timmer at 20:03, 25th September 2024 | |
PLEASE, don't tell Timmer. 
You called?
Absolute fare dodger if I’ve ever seen one.
Not the first time a seagull has travelled on a train of course:
https://youtu.be/qsztO2d9KaM?si=baBYTA9KNuTbf_Sg
| Re: First it was squirrels..... Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 18:51, 25th September 2024 | |
PLEASE, don't tell Timmer.
| Re: First it was squirrels..... Posted by Marlburian at 18:35, 25th September 2024 | |
| Re: First it was squirrels..... Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 17:10, 25th September 2024 | |
| Re: First it was squirrels..... Posted by Red Squirrel at 07:27, 25th September 2024 | |
Hmm… undone by flies, one might say.
| Re: First it was squirrels..... Posted by Western Pathfinder at 21:34, 24th September 2024 | |
Time flies Fruit Flys like a Banana,unless they catch a train that is
Or it might just be a case of Flys go mad in Devon
Now where did I leave my coat.
| Re: First it was squirrels..... Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 20:04, 24th September 2024 | |
Hmm. That reflects on their cleaning staff team, methinks?
| First it was squirrels..... Posted by bobm at 17:36, 24th September 2024 | |
...now
16:50 Plymouth to London Paddington due 20:23
Facilities on the 16:50 Plymouth to London Paddington due 20:23.
Catering is reduced between Plymouth and London Paddington No catering in rear set due to an infestation of fruit flys.
Facilities on the 16:50 Plymouth to London Paddington due 20:23.
Catering is reduced between Plymouth and London Paddington No catering in rear set due to an infestation of fruit flys.
