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Not me, Shropshire Seagull

Rumbled. My knee is still sore thank you for asking. Hopefully Occupational Health will be gentle with me. Are you 'dressing up' for Watford?

Here's another anecdote for you then, but this time about our passengers, bless 'em: I was working a Bedford-Brighton service and pulled into Burgess Hill on a Friday evening (about 10pm at a guess). A group of lads got on, obviously well-oiled, heading for the clubs. About a quarter of a mile...

I can only guess that the train involved was a Class 319 unit(s) which don't have automated announcements or displays in the carriages. I don't know if fitting these things are in the pipeline (they are 35 years old now) This incident of...

Indeed it won't. The signaller with be duty-bound to report the conversation with the driver. If it was a Bedford/Blackfriars-based driver (with work still to do) I imagine he will have been met by a manager and a spare Brighton driver would have finished the shift. If it was a Brighton driver...

442s are all I drive now. Actually driving them is a pleasure (well okay the cab is a bit cramped) but it's the unreliability that us blokes at Victoria (and, I'm sure our passengers) find frustrating. The 442s were in storage for quite some time at, I think, Eastleigh which didn't do them a lot...

As I said, my incident was in 1999 (ish). Things have moved on so much since then as far as safety systems are concerned, in what was already a very safe industry. Nobody will feel as bad about that train not calling at Preston Park than the driver himself. I certainly feel for him. Mind you I...

Train Driver here....just to let you know this incident, while being much frowned upon by FCC, won't necessarily require Drugs & Alcohol screening. There will be a full investigation and the driver will put his side (and he sounds the sort to hold his hands up). I've done this myself (Burgess...