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« Reply #60 on: February 03, 2008, 11:56:19 » |
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The majority of HSS▸ also call at staffed stations whereas many local call at virtually all unstaffed stations and who knows who/what could be waiting on the platform.
And even at the staffed ones, they ask the staff to run the Cuppa down to the Driver! o yeah, i see that all the time and of course the platform staff would all be prepared to do that. They normally are prepared to do that, at Westbury anyway! That brings me on to another point, I often see Coffee etc, being dropped off to station staff at HSS stations, and not Local! |
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« Reply #61 on: February 03, 2008, 11:57:14 » |
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The majority of HSS▸ also call at staffed stations whereas many local call at virtually all unstaffed stations and who knows who/what could be waiting on the platform.
hereford line - mostly unstaffed cheltenham to swindon - unstaffed highbridge - unmanned bridgwater - unmanned, weston milton, worle, yatton, nailsea - unmanned and trust me, even at most manned stations dross waiting to get on the trains is still an issue as a good deal of platform staff just want rid. That doesn't really make up the majority of HSS stations though. The most regular stations to call at are: London Padd Reading Didcot Oxford Swindon Chippenham Bath Bristol TM‡Bristol Parkway Newport Cardiff Central Taunton Tiverton Exeter Newton A Totns Plymouth All Staffed for much of the day and night! |
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« Reply #62 on: February 03, 2008, 11:57:32 » |
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The majority of HSS▸ also call at staffed stations whereas many local call at virtually all unstaffed stations and who knows who/what could be waiting on the platform.
And even at the staffed ones, they ask the staff to run the Cuppa down to the Driver! o yeah, i see that all the time and of course the platform staff would all be prepared to do that. They normally are prepared to do that, at Westbury anyway! That brings me on to another point, I often see Coffee etc, being dropped off to station staff at HSS stations, and not Local! o my gawd - how awful. what can we do about this. |
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« Reply #63 on: February 03, 2008, 11:59:29 » |
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The majority of HSS▸ also call at staffed stations whereas many local call at virtually all unstaffed stations and who knows who/what could be waiting on the platform.
And even at the staffed ones, they ask the staff to run the Cuppa down to the Driver! o yeah, i see that all the time and of course the platform staff would all be prepared to do that. They normally are prepared to do that, at Westbury anyway! That brings me on to another point, I often see Coffee etc, being dropped off to station staff at HSS stations, and not Local! o my gawd - how awful. what can we do about this. More often than not, it's the TM‡ that drops it off! |
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« Reply #64 on: February 03, 2008, 12:06:06 » |
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The majority of HSS▸ also call at staffed stations whereas many local call at virtually all unstaffed stations and who knows who/what could be waiting on the platform.
And even at the staffed ones, they ask the staff to run the Cuppa down to the Driver! o yeah, i see that all the time and of course the platform staff would all be prepared to do that. They normally are prepared to do that, at Westbury anyway! That brings me on to another point, I often see Coffee etc, being dropped off to station staff at HSS stations, and not Local! o my gawd - how awful. what can we do about this. More often than not, it's the TM‡ that drops it off! goodness those lazy antisocial train managers really are taking the biscuit arnt they. shocking. |
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« Reply #65 on: February 03, 2008, 12:10:22 » |
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Umm, have to put my hands up and say that most Devon and Cornwall "Wessex" stations do get coffee/tea/bottled water dropped of from HST▸ 's, usually by the TM‡ or Customer host. Whilst I stand by my arguement for harmonisation, at Penzance, where they have merged the mess rooms/booking on/locker rooms etc there is a much better "banter" between west and HSS▸ crews and Penzance actually had a full depot Christmas party last year, where as in previous years there have been two seperate parties! but it seems it is just Penzance where this happens, whenever I work down there it is usually a pleasure to sit in the mess room!
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« Reply #66 on: February 03, 2008, 12:29:55 » |
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Had a brilliant TM‡ on the 7:30 PAD» -PNZ in Cornwall. I got on at Hayle and he stopped at St.Erth and issued two carriages of tickets, pretty good in ten minutes.
Wasn't you by any chance Vacman? Probably not, but that service does have an Assistant ticket examiner between Plymouth and Penzance, who are ex-Wessex! He did half, the TM did the other half, usually the ATE has to do it all. |
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« Reply #67 on: February 03, 2008, 12:40:41 » |
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Had a brilliant TM‡ on the 7:30 PAD» -PNZ in Cornwall. I got on at Hayle and he stopped at St.Erth and issued two carriages of tickets, pretty good in ten minutes.
Wasn't you by any chance Vacman? Probably not, but that service does have an Assistant ticket examiner between Plymouth and Penzance, who are ex-Wessex! He did half, the TM did the other half, usually the ATE has to do it all. ATE's don't usually complain as they get 5% commission! |
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« Reply #68 on: February 03, 2008, 12:41:50 » |
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Had a brilliant TM‡ on the 7:30 PAD» -PNZ in Cornwall. I got on at Hayle and he stopped at St.Erth and issued two carriages of tickets, pretty good in ten minutes.
Wasn't you by any chance Vacman? Probably not, but that service does have an Assistant ticket examiner between Plymouth and Penzance, who are ex-Wessex! He did half, the TM did the other half, usually the ATE has to do it all. ATE's don't usually complain as they get 5% commission! What do TM's/Guards get? |
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« Reply #69 on: February 03, 2008, 12:47:18 » |
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Had a brilliant TM‡ on the 7:30 PAD» -PNZ in Cornwall. I got on at Hayle and he stopped at St.Erth and issued two carriages of tickets, pretty good in ten minutes.
Wasn't you by any chance Vacman? Probably not, but that service does have an Assistant ticket examiner between Plymouth and Penzance, who are ex-Wessex! He did half, the TM did the other half, usually the ATE has to do it all. ATE's don't usually complain as they get 5% commission! What do TM's/Guards get? Conductors have to tak ^2200 in a four week period, after the ^2200 has been reached then they get 5% on everything after that until the end of the four week period, si if they take ^2200 within the first week then they get 5% after that. TM's get a strange arrangement where 1% of the money taken in the whole depot is shared between all of the TM's, so basicly, the TM's who go and do tickets still get the same "commission" as the TM's who sit on their arse doing nothing! |
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« Reply #70 on: February 03, 2008, 13:16:55 » |
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Had a brilliant TM‡ on the 7:30 PAD» -PNZ in Cornwall. I got on at Hayle and he stopped at St.Erth and issued two carriages of tickets, pretty good in ten minutes.
Wasn't you by any chance Vacman? Probably not, but that service does have an Assistant ticket examiner between Plymouth and Penzance, who are ex-Wessex! He did half, the TM did the other half, usually the ATE has to do it all. ATE's don't usually complain as they get 5% commission! What do TM's/Guards get? Conductors have to tak ^2200 in a four week period, after the ^2200 has been reached then they get 5% on everything after that until the end of the four week period, si if they take ^2200 within the first week then they get 5% after that. TM's get a strange arrangement where 1% of the money taken in the whole depot is shared between all of the TM's, so basicly, the TM's who go and do tickets still get the same "commission" as the TM's who sit on their arse doing nothing! wrong again. you really need to change your sources of information vacman. tm's get 1% of the on train revenue taken in the whole company. its not depot based at all. |
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« Reply #71 on: February 03, 2008, 13:37:15 » |
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Had a brilliant TM‡ on the 7:30 PAD» -PNZ in Cornwall. I got on at Hayle and he stopped at St.Erth and issued two carriages of tickets, pretty good in ten minutes.
Wasn't you by any chance Vacman? Probably not, but that service does have an Assistant ticket examiner between Plymouth and Penzance, who are ex-Wessex! He did half, the TM did the other half, usually the ATE has to do it all. ATE's don't usually complain as they get 5% commission! What do TM's/Guards get? Conductors have to take ^2200 in a four week period, after the ^2200 has been reached then they get 5% on everything after that until the end of the four week period, si if they take ^2200 within the first week then they get 5% after that. TM's get a strange arrangement where 1% of the money taken in the whole depot is shared between all of the TM's, so basicly, the TM's who go and do tickets still get the same "commission" as the TM's who sit on their arse doing nothing! wrong again. you really need to change your sources of information vacman. tm's get 1% of the on train revenue taken in the whole company. its not depot based at all. I'm only going on what TM's have told me! But it's still the case that the "lazy" TM's get the benefit's of the "keen" TM's, also, I've been led to believe that "on train revenue" includes that taken by conductors and ATE's?  If you look at my past posts about various things you'll see that most of my sources are indeed VERY accurate! |
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« Reply #72 on: February 03, 2008, 13:40:12 » |
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Had a brilliant TM‡ on the 7:30 PAD» -PNZ in Cornwall. I got on at Hayle and he stopped at St.Erth and issued two carriages of tickets, pretty good in ten minutes.
Wasn't you by any chance Vacman? Probably not, but that service does have an Assistant ticket examiner between Plymouth and Penzance, who are ex-Wessex! He did half, the TM did the other half, usually the ATE has to do it all. ATE's don't usually complain as they get 5% commission! What do TM's/Guards get? Conductors have to take ^2200 in a four week period, after the ^2200 has been reached then they get 5% on everything after that until the end of the four week period, si if they take ^2200 within the first week then they get 5% after that. TM's get a strange arrangement where 1% of the money taken in the whole depot is shared between all of the TM's, so basicly, the TM's who go and do tickets still get the same "commission" as the TM's who sit on their arse doing nothing! wrong again. you really need to change your sources of information vacman. tm's get 1% of the on train revenue taken in the whole company. its not depot based at all. I'm only going on what TM's have told me! But it's still the case that the "lazy" TM's get the benefit's of the "keen" TM's, also, I've been led to believe that "on train revenue" includes that taken by conductors and ATE's? If you look at my past posts about various things you'll see that most of my sources are indeed VERY accurate! but not on this issue. see a clever person checks his facts and confirms them before he / she forms an opinion and also trys to tell others from a position of authority which you are obviously not on hss issues. now then, to correct another inaccuracy of your knowledge of all things hss - the 1% is from hss revenue only and does not include LTV▸ and West on train revenue. |
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« Reply #73 on: February 03, 2008, 13:42:00 » |
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Had a brilliant TM‡ on the 7:30 PAD» -PNZ in Cornwall. I got on at Hayle and he stopped at St.Erth and issued two carriages of tickets, pretty good in ten minutes.
Wasn't you by any chance Vacman? Probably not, but that service does have an Assistant ticket examiner between Plymouth and Penzance, who are ex-Wessex! He did half, the TM did the other half, usually the ATE has to do it all. ATE's don't usually complain as they get 5% commission! What do TM's/Guards get? Conductors have to take ^2200 in a four week period, after the ^2200 has been reached then they get 5% on everything after that until the end of the four week period, si if they take ^2200 within the first week then they get 5% after that. TM's get a strange arrangement where 1% of the money taken in the whole depot is shared between all of the TM's, so basicly, the TM's who go and do tickets still get the same "commission" as the TM's who sit on their arse doing nothing! wrong again. you really need to change your sources of information vacman. tm's get 1% of the on train revenue taken in the whole company. its not depot based at all. I'm only going on what TM's have told me! But it's still the case that the "lazy" TM's get the benefit's of the "keen" TM's, also, I've been led to believe that "on train revenue" includes that taken by conductors and ATE's? If you look at my past posts about various things you'll see that most of my sources are indeed VERY accurate! but not on this issue. see a clever person checks his facts and confirms them before he / she forms an opinion and also trys to tell others from a position of authority which you are obviously not on hss issues. now then, to correct another inaccuracy of your knowledge of all things hss - the 1% is from hss revenue only and does not include LTV▸ and West on train revenue. Like I wrote "i've been led to believe", Are you ex BR▸ by any chnce?? |
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« Reply #74 on: February 03, 2008, 13:44:16 » |
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Had a brilliant TM‡ on the 7:30 PAD» -PNZ in Cornwall. I got on at Hayle and he stopped at St.Erth and issued two carriages of tickets, pretty good in ten minutes.
Wasn't you by any chance Vacman? Probably not, but that service does have an Assistant ticket examiner between Plymouth and Penzance, who are ex-Wessex! He did half, the TM did the other half, usually the ATE has to do it all. ATE's don't usually complain as they get 5% commission! What do TM's/Guards get? Conductors have to take ^2200 in a four week period, after the ^2200 has been reached then they get 5% on everything after that until the end of the four week period, si if they take ^2200 within the first week then they get 5% after that. TM's get a strange arrangement where 1% of the money taken in the whole depot is shared between all of the TM's, so basicly, the TM's who go and do tickets still get the same "commission" as the TM's who sit on their arse doing nothing! wrong again. you really need to change your sources of information vacman. tm's get 1% of the on train revenue taken in the whole company. its not depot based at all. I'm only going on what TM's have told me! But it's still the case that the "lazy" TM's get the benefit's of the "keen" TM's, also, I've been led to believe that "on train revenue" includes that taken by conductors and ATE's? If you look at my past posts about various things you'll see that most of my sources are indeed VERY accurate! but not on this issue. see a clever person checks his facts and confirms them before he / she forms an opinion and also trys to tell others from a position of authority which you are obviously not on hss issues. now then, to correct another inaccuracy of your knowledge of all things hss - the 1% is from hss revenue only and does not include LTV▸ and West on train revenue. Like I wrote "i've been led to believe", Are you ex BR▸ by any chnce?? do you beleive everything you are told vacman? your original post on the subject didnt have "ive been told" or "i have been led to beleive" maybe if you want to find out something about hss staff and their pay and conditions the best people to ask would be hss staff. at least now you know. |
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