Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected]

Astrophysicist etc. @[email protected]

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

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[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@gobbybobbyy @SW_Help @Geoff390 @BritishRailGuy great! would have been good to suggest this in the original advice, no?

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@SW_Help Your conductor on the train is sweating very badly, I worry for her health. Did someone turn the AC off after the temperature dropped below 30C? Hope not, bring back the windows!

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@SW_Help on the 1430 WAT-PMH .. coach 8/10 feels like being in a greenhouse in the summer with the heating switched on. A feature of the new management? :) Any chance you could turn the aircon to cool rather than heat? thx!

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@SW_Help @Geoff390 @BritishRailGuy ... does this mean the phoneless can no longer travel from there on SWR?

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@SW_Help that's ok, I ended up getting on one of the (very!) late trains - sucked to stand all the way, and my feet hurt, but made it :) sorry that SWR had to go through that, I know it's not easy, esp. on the WAT-CPJ-WIM choke-point. thanks again!

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

hi @SW_Help ... am supposed to be doing KGX-WAT-GLD at ~5.45pm today, can I do KGX-PAD-RDG-GLD on the same ticket? Might be the only way!

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@SW_Help that indeed would make sense :) but the staff at Waterloo seem to disagree with you. Do you have a reference/link to a rulebook so I can check it? thx!

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@SW_Help thanks for that, Waterloo was fine if busy in the end. Quick Q: I had a split ticket WAT-WOK-GLD, in the event of such chaos, *must* I go via WOK? Staff at WAT said I had no choice, even if it meant delay of many hours :-/ thx!

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@SW_Help great, thanks, the "tourist route" for the day :)

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

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I'm giving a talk, evening of 21st October at Uni. Surrey.

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@GNRailUK hi @GNRailUK! 1001 CMB > KGX, carriage 61 223 no wifi: new feature? reduced service? known fault? p.s. good luck with nationalisation :)

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

World Space Week takeover of Guildford tomorrow

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[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@Chris_TheDriver @GNRailUK thanks Chris :) but it is a *vital* service for those that a) pay for tickets and b) need to work during the many hours on these trains. No refund if it fails, and it is an advertised feature of the service. It's up to the operating company to hire staff to check. Trivial to do!

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@GNRailUK hi GNR, same old, same old today. 1014 CBG>KGX, carriage 61 726: no wifi. Yes, before you ask, it has the stickers on the doors but, oddly, they don't make it work. Who'd have thought? :) Can I get a refund for services not rendered?

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@GNRailUK but you (hopefully) have staff *other than the driver* that get the train ready at the start of the day, check its technical systems, etc.? If not... why do you charge us so much for the promised but nonexistent service? On SWR now and *wifi just works*, state ownership+++++!

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@GNRailUK Is there any way to raise these faults before the trains leave the shed? It seems most of them are broken (no wifi, no water, etc.) so the work needs doing earlier.

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@GNRailUK hi Kieran, the SSID is not shown, suggesting the router is disabled or powered off. This is at least more honest than last week, where it *was* shown but nobody could obtain an IP address (DHCP was down). I am not sure that means that this week better! Same old, same old ...

[UCU @ucu]

A crisis of leadership’s making and staff pay the price.

Lancaster University plans to axe 462 jobs to ‘save money’ while its senior leadership team, paid a combined £2.3 million, faces no cuts. @LancasterUCU

https://t.co/bixiQB15OP

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@GNRailUK have done, thanks!

[Robert Izzard ⚫️ @[email protected] @RobIzzard]

@GNRailUK on the very delayed train from CMB to KGX (1032; actually 1057, arrives "1202"). In the borrowed GWR carriages. Wifi broken *as always on these carriages*. No water in any toilet. Why do you borrow these to supply such a service? Train's barely moving too ;)