The Ticket Collector

Good Bye GNER

Bye Bye GNER, I would say its been nice knowing you, but it hasnt. In this post we shall say what lasting legacies GNER has left.

• Towards the end of GNER, their trains have brought power lines down on the ECML, constantly failed in the worst area possible.
• Lack of information when problems do happen.
• Hiked up Car Parking charges.
• Created stupid advance purchase tickets, without any training for staff.
• Hiked up buffet prices, which you needed to have a footballers salary to buy anything. (Wheres Norton Finance when you need them)
• Created surly and aggressive Revenue staff (not all of them.)
• Charged for a WiFi service which never worked.

Have we missed any out? If so please do add them to the comments section.

Possible Engineering work on theticketcollector.co.uk

This website is going to be moving servers, so there maybe some slight downtime in the next few days, but just like Notwork Rail we are unable to give any vague timescales as to when the actual transfer will happen and again just like Notwork Rail it will prob overrun.

Unfortunately there will not be any replacement road transport for the servers.

Fire on Hull Trains at Stevenage

Details are rathy sketchy at the moment but there was a fire on 222012 traveling from Hull to Kings Cross, at around 19:30 the train came to a stand in the Stevenage area.

An emergency call was received by Kings Cross PSB from the driver and the train was evacuated. No passengers were injured and the train evacuation went to plan.

Platform staff at Stevenage were handing out bottles of water to all passengers both off the Hull Trains and other trains sitting in the platform.

The Fire Services stated that they wanted the overhead power lines earthed before they went to the Hull Trains unit, this was done and that is why all services were left at a stand and no services were able to run through the Stevenage area.

More information will be attempted to be sourced.

Services are currently running with delays of up to 3 hours.

Proposed industrial action on One Railway, Saturday 18th August & Monday 20th August

Members of the RMT union working for One Railway have proposed industrial action for Saturday 18th August and Monday 20th August.

MORE THAN I00 RMT guards, revenue-protection inspectors and retail staff at ‘One’ railway in north Essex are to strike on August 18 and 20 after voting by a massive margin for action against the unfair dismissal of a guard.

Guards based at Colchester and Clacton, revenue-protection inspectors based at Colchester and retail members between Chelmsford and Manningtree voted by 83 to one to strike.

The union, which is in dispute over the sacking of guard Paul Yarwood and the company’s failure to support other members involved in an incident with a fare evader on June 7 at Colchester North station, has now also called a company-wide ballot.

“The anger of our members over this issue should now be quite clear to One management,” RMT general secretary Bob Crow said today.

“Our members are furious that the company has failed to support staff who were left to deal with an abusive fare-evader who refused to stop smoking on a train, assaulted a platform supervisor and threatened a passenger and other staff.

“The company’s decision to sack one loyal member of staff and suspend two others stunned their colleagues and left them feeling betrayed.

“Paul Yarwood should never have been sacked in the first place, but if the company wants to win back the trust of its workforce it must start by re-instating him and confirming that there will be no further disciplinary action in this matter.

“Our members face the prospect of assault and abuse daily, and the least they should be able to expect is support from their employers.

“The RMT executive has responded to the magnificent vote for action by calling two days of strike action, and has today also agreed to ballot the entire One workforce over the crucial issues involved,” Bob Crow said.