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	<title>The Ticket Collector</title>
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	<description>An unofficial daily blog of a Ticket Collector, based on one of London's main Railway Networks.</description>
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		<title>FGW Train Maintenance and Cleaning staff to strike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First Great Western staff based at Bristol, Reading, Oxford, Penzance, Exeter, Plymouth, Swansea, and Old Oak Common in London will not book on for shifts that begin after 00:01 on May 18 for 24 hours.
This is due to the company&#8217;s refusal to pay an enhanced rate of pay for overtime and or to concede a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NXEC tickets are a rip-off.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the May 18th many of the UK&#8217;s Train Companies tickets will increase in price. We have been looking at the new fares and have noticed that many of National Express East Coast&#8217;s (NXEC) advance purchase tickets will just disappear and become just &#8220;advance&#8221;.
NXEC have 8 advance tickets all charged at different prices. 4 First [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theticketcollector.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/08/nxec-tickets-are-a-rip-off/</link>
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		<title>Fares &#8216;revision&#8217; 18th May.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 18th May the new revised fares will be coming into effect on the National Network. Some companies have withdrawn some tickets and replaced them with more expensive tickets.
In January 2008 the overall allowable average increase for regulated fares Peak day and Season Tickets was 4.8%, with variations by flow and ticket type up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theticketcollector.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/08/fares-revision-18th-may/</link>
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		<title>Guards on East Midland Trains to strike.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guards part of the RMT union on East Midlands Trains (Previously Midland Mainline) are to go on strike on the first 3 Saturdays in May.
After voting for both strike action and action short of strike, the senior conductors, will not book on for shifts that commence between a minute after midnight and 23:59 on May [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theticketcollector.co.uk/wordpress/2008/04/25/guards-on-east-midland-trains-to-strike/</link>
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		<title>Tony Blair caught without a ticket, and then allowed to travel for free!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former prime minister Tony Blair was left red-faced when he was caught travelling on a Heathrow Express train on Wednesday without a ticket and said he had no cash to pay the fare.
Blair, who has earned around 500,000 pounds being a speaker at various events since leaving office in June, was confronted by a ticket [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theticketcollector.co.uk/wordpress/2008/04/23/tony-blair-caught-without-a-ticket/</link>
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