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« on: June 06, 2009, 20:32:32 » |
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Hey there folks, been watching this site for a while and decided to join up so I can add my two-penneth when I think I have something to add!
I'm a train guard from Edinburgh working for ScotRail, though I am a First Group sceptic and have not succumbed to the head office propaganda!
Normally interested in fare and customer service topics and will give you an honest insider's opinion!
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Lee
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« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2009, 20:35:50 » |
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Welcome, and enjoy the forum.
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« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2009, 20:57:45 » |
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Indeed welcome to the forum readytostart. Fare and customer service related issues regularly appear on the forum so you will be more than at home here.
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Super Guard
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« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2009, 22:35:46 » |
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Any opinions made on this forum are purely personal and my own. I am in no way speaking for, or offering the views of First Great Western or First Group.
If my employer feels I have broken any aspect of the Social Media Policy, please PM me immediately, so I can rectify without delay.
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readytostart
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« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2009, 13:31:08 » |
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Blakey, we're more beep beep or ding ding up here! Only get the buzz buzz on some hand me down Wessex 158's!
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« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2009, 22:44:07 » |
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Sorry, had forgotten how posh you lot were up in the frozen north! These days we're even back to using flags and whistles on a few trains down this way...
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« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2009, 22:48:06 » |
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No whistles on the lhcs set. Green flag and a toot on the horn.
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inspector_blakey
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« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2009, 14:13:44 » |
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Sorry d_m, need to correct you slightly here...
You are correct in that the "rightaway" signal itself is simply a green flag. However, guards are required to carry a whistle with them when on duty and will use it at their discretion. If a guard working the loco-hauled set feels the need to use a whistle, they will do so. There are some guards who will use their whistle before despatching units at unstaffed stations: it's not technically required by the rule book but is very handy for (a) speeding people up if they're dawdling and (b) making sure everyone in earshot knows the train is about the depart.
Nitpicking over now, I promise.
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« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2009, 15:20:32 » |
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Hey there folks, been watching this site for a while and decided to join up so I can add my two-penneth when I think I have something to add!
I'm a train guard from Edinburgh working for ScotRail, though I am a First Group sceptic and have not succumbed to the head office propaganda!
Normally interested in fare and customer service topics and will give you an honest insider's opinion!
Welcome. After FGW▸ I travel most with Scotrail (thanks to your "bargain berths" I am up north on the sleeper a few times a year and am trying to climb the Munros that can be done by train). Pretty impressed with "Scotland's Railway" (if a little jealous). I was not pleased when NX lost its franchise to First (was a sleeper travelling North on the last day of NX and the staff were determined to give away the last of their buffet stock before the handover), but I think they have made a pretty good job of both Scotrail and FGW ain't so bad now either - and look what has happened to National Express... |
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« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2009, 16:24:23 » |
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Sorry d_m, need to correct you slightly here...
You are correct in that the "rightaway" signal itself is simply a green flag.
The green flag isn't the only right away signal. At the major station they have Right Away markers mounted on signals which illuminate when pressed by dispatch staff, so the green flag is mainly only used at the unstaffed stations with the bigger staffed ones using right away markers. |
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vacman
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« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2009, 21:08:32 » |
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Blakey, we're more beep beep or ding ding up here! Only get the buzz buzz on some hand me down Wessex 158's!
We'll happilly take them back off your hands!!! welcome fellow railwayman! |
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readytostart
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« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2009, 13:52:03 » |
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And swap them for your nodding donkeys, I don't think so! :oP
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readytostart
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« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2009, 23:33:49 » |
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After a successful escape bid from First McJockRail, I shall be coming to little gap in the FGW▸ network in Bournemouth so may see some of you on my travels!
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2009, 23:39:15 » |
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Welcome the sunny South, readytostart - well, to Bournemouth, anyway! Chris    |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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