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« Reply #45 on: June 16, 2014, 11:41:17 »
Quote from: SDS on June 15, 2014, 23:05:31
After PAs▸ (Public Address (broadcast loudspeaker announcements) or Passenger Assist (railway staff providing physical assistance to passengers with mobility issues), depending on context) are made and its shown as first stop SWI» (Swindon - next trains) then defo Excess with a threat that if they are caught again then prosecution could result!

Charge them to return to Reading too!
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« Reply #46 on: June 16, 2014, 17:37:11 »
A poster on rail forums who's a TM▸ (Train Manager, or Ticket Machine, or Temple Meads (Bristol), depending on context) for fgw has said there was approximately 80 for reading ended up in Swindon. This is almost a full carriage on a HST▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) that the further traveller has been deprived of and potentially turned away.
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« Reply #47 on: June 16, 2014, 18:23:42 »
And you cannot tell me that all 80 didn't know that they shouldn't have been on the 1915.
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« Reply #48 on: June 16, 2014, 18:48:39 »
Quote from: Timmer on June 16, 2014, 18:23:42
And you cannot tell me that all 80 didn't know that they shouldn't have been on the 1915.

"But im an Annual Gold Card holder so I know everything and how dare you tell me what to do.... I pay your wages etc etc etc"
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« Reply #49 on: June 16, 2014, 19:00:32 »
Quote from: richwarwicker on June 16, 2014, 17:37:11
A poster on rail forums who's a TM▸ (Train Manager, or Ticket Machine, or Temple Meads (Bristol), depending on context) for fgw has said there was approximately 80 for reading ended up in Swindon. This is almost a full carriage on a HST▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) that the further traveller has been deprived of and potentially turned away.

Not to forget the equivalent amount of space taken up returning these individuals to Reading...
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« Reply #50 on: June 16, 2014, 19:45:11 »
Well if they had tried that in 1972 they would have ended up in some very exotic places  Grin  Cheesy  Roll Eyes
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