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[gaf71]

0950 from Exeter is 1 car?

Every train on the Exmouth branch should be 2 car minimum!

0918 from exeter, 0950 from exmouth is diagrammed a single 153, great fun in half term etc.

[Lee]

0950 from Exeter is 1 car?

Every train on the Exmouth branch should be 2 car minimum!

0918 from exeter, 0950 from exmouth is diagrammed a single 153, great fun in half term etc.

What other journeys does this Class 153 unit operate each day , gaf71?

[gaf71]

0950 from Exeter is 1 car?

Every train on the Exmouth branch should be 2 car minimum!

0918 from exeter, 0950 from exmouth is diagrammed a single 153, great fun in half term etc.

What other journeys does this Class 153 unit operate each day , gaf71?

it starts the day attatched to a 150 or 158, on a Paignton/Exmouth run if i remember rightly, then is detatched to run on its own for 9.18 to Exmouth and back. Then stabled at St Davids til it is used for the 12.14 to Gunnislake(I think!) Where it goes later i'm not sure, tho probably to par/penzance, or attatches to something at Plymouth to go back to Exeter.

[Lee]

0950 from Exeter is 1 car?

Every train on the Exmouth branch should be 2 car minimum!

0918 from exeter, 0950 from exmouth is diagrammed a single 153, great fun in half term etc.

What other journeys does this Class 153 unit operate each day , gaf71?

it starts the day attatched to a 150 or 158, on a Paignton/Exmouth run if i remember rightly, then is detatched to run on its own for 9.18 to Exmouth and back. Then stabled at St Davids til it is used for the 12.14 to Gunnislake(I think!) Where it goes later i'm not sure, tho probably to par/penzance, or attatches to something at Plymouth to go back to Exeter.

Thanks for that.

If it does the 1214 to Gunnislake , then I would assume that it would then form a mixture of Gunnislake & Plymouth - Ivybridge - Totnes - Newton Abbot services.

Can anyone confirm that?

[moonraker]

Something that makes my blood boil are idiots that fool around on a crowded platform, trying to push each other on to the rail as their train is pulling in
These oafs are non age specific, ranging from pre-teens to 30 40 somethings.

It scares the living daylight out of the driver! a moments misfooting and it is game over.

[TerminalJunkie]

The things that get on my nipple ends, in no particular order:

One more for the list:

• People who put an extra 'd' in allegedly.

I promise not to go on about it, though!

[smokey]

Things that make my blood boil,
1. Well I share the Coats and Bags on Seats issue, but surely in the By laws when a Passenger occupies a 2nd seat with Coats, Bags, Dogs, or whatever, THEY MUST hold a 2nd Ticket for that seat.
Do any Conductors Guards etc ever impose this by law?

2. The TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company)'s calling Passengers, CUSTOMERS, when on a train you are not a CUSTOMER (unless down in the Buffet). This was something BR^▸ (British Rail(ways)) brought in, god knows why.
If the powers to be don't like the term Passenger then they could refer to passengers as "TRAVELLERS" or "The Travelling Public" but not as CUSTOMERS.
Any one agree with me?

3. The So called Security Boffins who ordered Litter Bins to be removed from Stations! WHY?
Bins WERE never removed from Stations in Northern Ireland during all the troubles of 1970-2000
How does the lack of a Bin stop Suicide Bombers (the modern threat)
All that removing bins ever achived, was it made the Railway look like a Rubbish dump,  I'm not sure I should say this Bins are slowly coming back.

4. The awful layout and lack of tables on FGW^▸ (First Great Western) standard class HST^▸ (High Speed Train) coaches.

5. Music being played openly from Mobiles or Radios on Trains without headsets.
    I know a few years back a Guard who told a PASSENGER NOT to use a Radio, on the 3rd occasion of telling the passenger NOT to use the Radio as in was annoying other passengers he picked said radio up and hurled it threw the open window of the train, to cheers of support from the passengers.

This is NOT mine, but on the Midland (Main Line) a train was held in a station, as a member of the Public was threatening to Jump from the footbridge on to the lines below. After about a half hour wait a Member of the armed services got of the train went to the footbrigde rushed the police and ran on to the bridge and said to the Jumper "You going to Jump or What?" as the jumper said "I don't know" the Militaryman pushed the Jumper from the Bridge.
 The Jumper was taken to Hospitial, the Serviceman arrested and the Train got on it's way.
The moral of this story you just have to be glad that on occasions someone takes the law into their own hands.

[Shazz]

Things that make my blood boil,
1. Well I share the Coats and Bags on Seats issue, but surely in the By laws when a Passenger occupies a 2nd seat with Coats, Bags, Dogs, or whatever, THEY MUST hold a 2nd Ticket for that seat.
Do any Conductors Guards etc ever impose this by law?

2. The TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company)'s calling Passengers, CUSTOMERS, when on a train you are not a CUSTOMER (unless down in the Buffet). This was something BR^▸ (British Rail(ways)) brought in, god knows why.
If the powers to be don't like the term Passenger then they could refer to passengers as "TRAVELLERS" or "The Travelling Public" but not as CUSTOMERS.
Any one agree with me?

1) i've seen it happen in before. when a hst was canceled out of cardiff, and 2 train loads of commuters got on (thank god it was a refurb). It was full and standing just leaving cardiff.
The TM^‡(resolve) came over the intercom saying "if you have a bag on a seat when i do my checks, you'll be paying for an extra ticket, etc etc etc". The person opposite ignored it, and got charged a full standard class ticket.


2) You are a customer of the toc (you pay for a service, they provide it (much like you are a "customer" to a gas company, you pay for gas, they provide you it as a customer)). So its a perfectly reasonable use.