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London - Manchester Train Tickets for £1 (if you can get the site to work)

We have been emailed in this offer of tickets for a quid. It only works on London - Manchester and Return.

However we have not been able to get the stupid Virmin Trains website to work, so it seems that either the offer is so popular its crashed the site, or more likley its a false offer. Try it at http://www.mobitix.thetrainline.com/vt and let us know it it works.

People have been saying that there are no quid fares, but the ones that have got the site to work can get £5 and £7 tickets.

The catch.
As with all Virmin Train tickets theres always a catch and they are as follows:
You cannot get off early or combine it with any other ticket.
You must get on the train the ticket states, any other is forbidden.
You must book with a Credit Card and the Credit Card must be with your tickets to proove their yours.
Offer ends 26th October 2007.
The sites link is http://www.mobitix.thetrainline.com/vt

Paul Yarwood - the RMT responds.

Dear Colleagues

MANAGEMENT NEGLECT OF STAFF SAFETY – ‘one’

Further to my correspondence in relation to the sacking of Paul Yarwood I can now advise you there have been developments in this matter which has led to the settlement of this dispute.

I am pleased to inform you that management has offered a settlement satisfactory to Brother Yarwood and following consultations, the General Grades Committee has decided to accept the offer. Therefore all further industrial action has been called off.

Additionally, management has agreed to widen the parameters of the Assaults Working Group comprised of elected local representatives to deal with all aspects of staff safety and security and to ensure that this is a priority.

We will be making plans to discuss these issues with all RMT local, Health & Safety and Company Council Representatives and will be asking them to contact their Constituents to find out specific problems prior to this meeting. Following this meeting there will be further discussions with the company.

I will of course keep Branches and members advised of all developments.

This is undoubtedly a great victory and an absolute object lesson in demonstrating what complete solidarity can achieve.

No ticket? False details given?

If you travel on the Railway without the correct ticket and dont have a vaild reason or excuse, several things could now happen to you.

If you are stopped at your final destination you could be Penalty Fared twice the single fare or £20 whichever the greater, for your complete journey.

It is an offence to provide false details, or to refuse to provide details. The maximum penalty after conviction is up to 51 weeks prison. Regulation of Railways Act 1889 as amended by Criminal Justice Act 2003

You have the right of appeal on all Penalty Fare notices, You can do this by writing to the address on the Penalty Fare notice within 21 days and stating your reasons for appeal.

You could be recommended for prosecution, a statement may be taken by the Inspector and you will be contacted by the Fraud department of the Railway Company. Maximum fine is £1,000 plus costs. Regulation of Railways Act 1889. However if you swear or are abusive to the Inspector this could increase your fine. Public Order Act

Again it is an offence to provide false details, or to refuse to provide details. The maximum penalty after conviction is up to 51 weeks prison. Regulation of Railways Act 1889 as amended by Criminal Justice Act 2003.

It is your responsiblity to purchase a ticket for the whole of your journey before you get on the train. If there is a long queue at the ticket office/ticket machine, this does not allow you to get on the train without a ticket, it is still your responsibility to allow yourself sufficient time to buy a ticket before travelling.

At stations where there is only one self-service ticket machine there is a further automatic machine called a Permit to Travel machine. This is normally located near the station entrance / exit or beside other self-service machines. You should insert the maximum number of coins you have with you into the Permit to Travel machine, up to the value of your journey. Press the button and you will be issued with a Permit to Travel. Failure to insert the maximum number of coins may lead to you being issued with a Penalty Fare or recommended for prosecution for Permit Abuse.

If their is a genuine reason for you traveling without a ticket (such as ticket machine broken or ticket office closed) then you may not be recommended for prosecution or charged a Penalty Fare, but if there is another method of payment available then you may be issued with a Penalty Fare or recommended for prosecution.

The above information is intended as a guide only and should not be regarded as a complete or authoritative statement of the law or regulations. TheTicketCollector.co.uk cannot give advice on any Penalty Fares issued and cannot help in any Penalty Fare Appeals.

Paul Yarwood - an update.

This is somthing posted on another railway related website.

The guard has not been reinstated,he was offered £1000 and no job,this was rejected,he was offered £5000 and no job,this was also rejected,he then went to the RMT and told them he did’nt want his job back and he did’nt want any more action taken that would lose his fellow men/women money through strike action.

Many members at Colchester and Claction feel that the RMT have really stiched them up and bowed into corporate pressure. Lots of members have also resigned their membership of the RMT for failing to protect them and continue the pressure on ‘one’.

one Railway strike called off.

Two days of rail chaos in Norfolk have been averted after planned strikes by One workers were called off at the eleventh hour.

The industrial action was cancelled after a row over the sacking of a guard (paul Yarwood) was resolved, it was announced today.

Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) were due to walk out for 24 hours on Saturday and again on Monday in support of Paul Yarwood, who was dismissed from his job as a guard following an incident with a fare dodger.

The union said today there had been a settlement acceptable to both sides.

One had said that the strike would mean services from Norwich to Cambridge, Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Sheringham as well as Lowestoft to Ipswich would not operate.

The action was also were expected to disrupt Norwich to London intercity routes and services between Bury St. Edmunds and Lowestoft to London

Latest Vistor Information

This is the Latest Visitor Information as to who is visiting this site.

Hopefully this should be a weekly feature, just so we can say “we know who your are” and “we know what your searching for”.

The top 2 search queries to get to this site are:
paul yarwood
family railcard

emap the publishing company visit not that often. The IP tracks down to an area in Peterborough.
Vodafone have been visiting Recently. This maybe be bored employees, or someone accessing the site on a mobile.
HSBC, Barclays, and a few Merchant banks such as UBS have been visiting.

South West Trains loves this site and always comes back every day, somtimes at early hours in the morning.
Notwork Rail also visit on a daily baisis, prehaps they come to the site to find out what the staff that they employe on the tracks are actually doing. They have also been searching for “paul yarwood”.

The BBC visit regually also, but seeing as the BBC have a huge IP range it is impossible to track down which area of the BBC is visiting.
We also know that one person likes viewing the site using Google Reader. Is this a way around the corporate firewall? interesting, still shows the corporate IP range.

There are a lot of people visiting using home ISP’s which is great.

New way to contact Theticketcollector.co.uk

The site has now intergrated a nice new contact form for you to contact the site. We have email issues recently so we decided to add a nice new shiny form for people to directly type into to contact the site.

Due to the increase in spam we have had to add a robot confuser form, this is the Yes/No question.

Try the form now and send us an Email, we do respond belive it or not!

http://www.theticketcollector.co.uk/wordpress/contact-me/