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Staff:Passenger ratio 3:1. My kind of train!

(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Mobile%20Uploads/rps20160106_114346_zps0yfjczab.jpg)

 ;D

...and he wonders why?   ;D ;D

In the Kensal Green area on the daily Chiltern service that serves Paddington?

Right! Just before the 'turn off' to the GW&GCR at Old Oak Conman.

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

Did they all check your ticket?  ;)

Judging by the recent post on another thread by BNM, I think you may have inadvertently cursed his most recent journey with that!!

My ticket wasn't checked on the Parly. The TM merely told me the train was for South and West Ruislip only.

Then we chatted about the diagram and staff turn.

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  ;D ...it became my kind of train.

I din't that Chiltern Parly train would ever find its way to Swindon, Graham!

24 hours later, he is still on his own - but where this time?

(http://www.mbob.co.uk/rforum/jam070116.jpg)

Perhaps the staff at Paddington have built him his own holding cell to keep him put whilst they investigate his latest ticket validity

To (mis)quote Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing:

"Nobody puts bignosemac in a corner."

I put myself there. Tight squeeze mind.  ;D

The signalmans' air raid shelter at STEAM?

It is indeed.  Quite how effective it would have been I am not so sure.

......are you sure it's not a prototype Crossrail toilet? (....no more than 5 seated at a time please!)  :)

The reason why the staff ratio on the Chiltern parly is high is that it's mostly run for route knowledge purposes to keep Chiltern drivers and TMs up to date on the route for diversions into Padd and of course to allow the DfT not to have to issue a passenger closesure notice for the line.

The BBC admits that budget cuts have affected the design of the replacement Tardis.