Zifa ticket stampers

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[SDS]

It wont identify the train on some trains as the letter cog doesn't have every letter on it.
e.g. AFAIK^▸ ('as far as I know') it has A/C/E/G/L/M/O/S/T/X as letters. I know some trains that dont use any of those letters as main headcodes.
The number only identifies the ziffa number and not the individual guard (unless logged that way) and isnt unique to ziffa only to the order made.

[inspector_blakey]

Fair point re reporting numbers, but using an X in place of the letter assuming the correct one isn't on the wheel still gives a good indication of what train it was used on. From the context of "I used this ticket on the xxxx train from Nempnett Thrubwell to Portishead on dd-mm-yyyy" it should be pretty easy to deduce the train which 2X34 instead of, say, 2R34, refers to.

And not just because there are very few trains between Nempnett Thrubwell and Portishead

[Chris from Nailsea]

And not just because there are very few trains between Nempnett Thrubwell and Portishead

[readytostart]

I've had it before where a passenger claims the return portion of a ticket was stamped in error on the outward journey of an SVR, the ZIFA stamp however told a different story and had been used two days previously on the same service (and surprisingly the passenger did not have any overnight bags). Easier to do that when you have a regular route and get to know the headcodes, we're mainly Mike and Oscar, one shift a day has a Victor, we get an Echo on Saturdays and will be getting a Sierra a day come December!

[Super Guard]

The number only identifies the ziffa number and not the individual guard (unless logged that way) and isnt unique to ziffa only to the order made.

The ziffa number is logged by Crew Admin staff to the staff member locally so can be traced within FGW^▸ (First Great Western).

[inspector_blakey]

Makes good sense! Would seem a bit pointless to issue all that kit with control numbers but not actually log them.