London Banter - View Single Post - Thank you First, for nearly getting me killed last night.

Joyce Whitchurch · October 7th 06, 08:46 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

wrote:
Yorkie wrote:

What's the point in providing emergency alarms, if the alarm is not
answered?

It was answered, by two railway staff. Why would having the driver
involved have improved the situation?

AIUI, the train was DOO and the driver was in charge. The two people who
asked the OP to leave the train may or may not have been railway staff,
and they may or may not have worked for FCC; they merely claimed to be
railway staff but did not produce any evidence to back up their claim.
All according to the OP, of course.

A little aside: I was on a night bus in Manchester last night and it was
heavily delayed by an incident at a bus stop (a lady waiting to board
claimed to have been robbed by someone alighting). There were masses of
people in hi-viz yellow jackets at this and several other stops. The
jackets did not identify them in any way. They got involved, but all
they did was direct the lady to some more people in yellow jackets and
tall pointy hats, which is what passes for a police uniform in
Manchester these days.

Nobody bothered to tell the remaining passengers what was happening, or
indeed to ask any of us if we'd seen or heard anything untoward, so I
went downstairs to find out for myself. In conversation with one of the
yellowjackets, who didn't identify himself at all, I did catch a glimpse
of a Stagecoach logo on a dark woolly pullover. The logo would have been
completely obscured by the hi-viz jacket if he'd bothered to wear it
properly instead of letting it hang half off him. I suppose that's what
passes for a bus inspector's uniform in Manchester these days.
--
Joyce Whitchurch, Stalybridge, UK
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Old enough to remember when bus
conductors had red stripes down
their trousers, not tomato ketchup