Manchester Exchange Station?

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Well, as I remember it, you used Exchange to get over to Liverpool. You used Victoria to get over to Leeds. It’s a pretty vague memory, admittedly.

Edit: that memory’s so vague that it’s wrong. It was of course Central over to Liverpool.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Ha! Yes. I used to work at Salford fire station which is Liverpool Street... just a habit of writing that!

How on earth did you get on Eggheads?

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

not far from where you look for some .....company

I was waiting down a side street near the old Mayfield station about midnight a few years back, picking up my son from the late express from London Euston to Piccadilly

Two rough slags tapped on my window and said "Do you want to do some business?"

I said, "No thank you, I went to the toilet before I left home"

Some strange folk about at that time of night.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

I once upset a railway official by suggesting the Liverpool service could be speeded up if they bought some of Harry Pollitt's single-wheelers (built about 1899) and wooden clerestory coaches. It did not go down well.

I upset one at London Waterloo once on a day of cancellations & delays on account of strikes or weather or whatever. There were always two fast trains an hour to where I was going, 10 and 40 minutes past I think. When I asked the chap how they were running he said "everything's an hour late." Thought for a moment and said "so they're all on time then?"
That didn't go down well either.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

How on earth did you get on Eggheads?

They need a thick one in every team!! :-)

 

[Grassland Blue]

There were far less trains on the network back in steam days though, and the concept of a clock face timetable (the same trains running at the same minutes past each hour with the same stops) is relatively new.
As part of my last job before retirement, I had to find paths for diverted Avanti trains during engineering works. In some hours, when I needed to divert Euston to Liverpool trains via Warrington and Huyton no paths existed at all due to the high frequency of stopping and freight trains between Huyton and Edge Hill. I had to terminate some trains at Warrington and provide onward connecting buses.
I understand this situation has changed somewhat post COVID with Northern and TPE service frequencies being slashed to cut costs, because of traincrew shortages and perceived drops in customer numbers.

If you travel on a bus you are a passenger.
If you travel on a ship you are a passenger.
If you travel on a 'plane you are a passenger.
Why is it then the case that if you travel on a train you are a customer?

 

[BrianW]

Well, as I remember it, you used Exchange to get over to Liverpool. You used Victoria to get over to Leeds. It’s a pretty vague memory, admittedly.

Edit: that memory’s so vague that it’s wrong. It was of course Central over to Liverpool.

It was either, and you could go from Vicky to Liverpool (Exchange).