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« on: January 06, 2016, 11:47:38 »
Staff:Passenger ratio 3:1. My kind of train!



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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2016, 11:49:46 »
...and he wonders why?   Grin Grin
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2016, 12:03:16 »
In the Kensal Green area on the daily Chiltern service that serves Paddington?
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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2016, 12:26:08 »
Right! Just before the 'turn off' to the GW» (Great Western - used as an abbreviation for the area / lines under the Great Western franchise, as opposed to FGW which includes "First", the company operating them too. For tickets - about)&GCR» (Gloucester - next trains) at Old Oak Conman.

Oh, and the staff:passenger ratio was actually 4:1.
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« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2016, 16:26:35 »
Quote from: bignosemac on January 06, 2016, 12:26:08
Right! Just before the 'turn off' to the GW» (Great Western - used as an abbreviation for the area / lines under the Great Western franchise, as opposed to FGW which includes "First", the company operating them too. For tickets - about)&GCR» (Gloucester - next trains) at Old Oak Conman.

Oh, and the staff:passenger ratio was actually 4:1.

Did they all check your ticket?  Wink
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« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2016, 17:15:35 »
Quote from: TaplowGreen on January 06, 2016, 16:26:35
Quote from: bignosemac on January 06, 2016, 12:26:08
Right! Just before the 'turn off' to the GW» (Great Western - used as an abbreviation for the area / lines under the Great Western franchise, as opposed to FGW which includes "First", the company operating them too. For tickets - about)&GCR» (Gloucester - next trains) at Old Oak Conman.

Oh, and the staff:passenger ratio was actually 4:1.

Did they all check your ticket?  Wink

Judging by the recent post on another thread by BNM, I think you may have inadvertently cursed his most recent journey with that!!
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« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2016, 17:26:52 »
My ticket wasn't checked on the Parly. The TM▸ (Train Manager, or Ticket Machine, or Temple Meads (Bristol), depending on context) merely told me the train was for South and West Ruislip only.

Then we chatted about the diagram and staff turn.
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« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2016, 21:03:57 »
Quote from: bignosemac on January 06, 2016, 11:47:38
Staff:Passenger ratio 3:1. My kind of train!

I hope we can agree to differ on that ... I much prefer somewhere well over 20 people per carriage.  And I despair at how we're supposed to fill a 150/1 with 3+2 seating on the 21:08 off Swindon on a wet Saturday in February when the team was at home and the fans have long since go home.

Mind - I did take a picture just like yours (but obviously without the top of your head in it!) on that train a few weeks ago.    While it as waiting in Swindon .... then as departure time got nearer  Grin ...it became my kind of train.
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« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2016, 21:41:00 »
I din't that Chiltern Parly train would ever find its way to Swindon, Graham!
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« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2016, 20:03:18 »
24 hours later, he is still on his own - but where this time?
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« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2016, 20:11:29 »
Perhaps the staff at Paddington have built him his own holding cell to keep him put whilst they investigate his latest ticket validity
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« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2016, 21:37:01 »
To (mis)quote Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing:

"Nobody puts bignosemac in a corner."

I put myself there. Tight squeeze mind.  Grin
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« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2016, 09:24:33 »
The signalmans' air raid shelter at STEAM?
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« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2016, 09:26:23 »
It is indeed.  Quite how effective it would have been I am not so sure.
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« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2016, 10:22:10 »
......are you sure it's not a prototype Crossrail toilet? (....no more than 5 seated at a time please!)  Smiley
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