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« Reply #2610 on: March 02, 2025, 16:18:38 »
Quote from: IndustryInsider on March 02, 2025, 14:50:48
Quote from: bobm on March 02, 2025, 14:49:28
When was payday?  Sunny weather and a full wallet.....

Not until next Friday for most.

Would that be for staff paid 4-weekly or monthly?
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« Reply #2611 on: March 02, 2025, 20:34:01 »
1803,1903 & 2003 Paddington-Plymouth all cancelled due to crew shortage. I guess that just leaves the Sleeper?
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« Reply #2612 on: March 02, 2025, 20:35:02 »
Railway pay is four weekly, 13 pay days a year so March or April is the freebie month. Also every few years there's a single week bank credit.
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« Reply #2613 on: March 02, 2025, 20:46:06 »
Quote from: TaplowGreen on March 02, 2025, 20:34:01
1803,1903 & 2003 Paddington-Plymouth all cancelled due to crew shortage. I guess that just leaves the Sleeper?

2103 Exeter is shown as running. Also the above trains not showing on RealTime trains so cancelled well in advance?
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« Reply #2614 on: March 02, 2025, 20:59:36 »
Quote from: UstiImmigrunt on March 02, 2025, 20:46:06
Quote from: TaplowGreen on March 02, 2025, 20:34:01
1803,1903 & 2003 Paddington-Plymouth all cancelled due to crew shortage. I guess that just leaves the Sleeper?

2103 Exeter is shown as running. Also the above trains not showing on RealTime trains so cancelled well in advance?

Oh, that's alright then. Just a shame it gets to Exeter half an hour after the last service to Plymouth leaves
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« Reply #2615 on: March 02, 2025, 21:09:16 »
I agree it's pathetic.

Now if only the money was paid up 20 years ago and Sundays were inside the working week. I would have liked that option.
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« Reply #2616 on: March 09, 2025, 08:10:43 »
Not quite as many as last week, but another batch of cancelled/part cancelled trains again today, particularly out of Paddington around 4pm with three long distance trains in a row cancelled.

After many weeks of next to zero cancellations, are we seeing a slow return to how things were before Christmas?
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« Reply #2617 on: March 09, 2025, 09:57:07 »
Drivers prioritising the life over working overtime. You really can't blame them. Rugby @ 1500.
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« Reply #2618 on: March 09, 2025, 11:09:57 »
Quote from: ChrisB on March 09, 2025, 09:57:07
Drivers prioritising the life over working overtime. You really can't blame them. Rugby @ 1500.

.....and to be fair, being a train driver puts you in the income bracket necessary to be able to afford Twickenham tickets these days!
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