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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 possibly Ticket Machine, 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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