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You get a different type of people in ’standard’ class, says Tory MP

February 18, 2010
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Conservative MP Nicholas Winterton has argued that MPs should be allowed to travel in first class so that they can work in peace and quiet. Does he not realise that we’d all like peace and quiet?

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480 jobs hit the buffers at South West Trains

January 16, 2009

Are we heading for a strike? We could be, as South West Trains has announced plans to trim its workforce by 480 heads.

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More anti-terror proposals for rail passengers

January 15, 2009

British Transport Police want to change the Conditions of Carriage that form a contract between every rail passenger and the companies that carry them on their trains. If it happened, and the proposed new clauses were introduced, it would mean that every time you bought a train ticket you agreed to be searched by the [...]

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Anti-terror laws used against train spotters

January 5, 2009

Lib Dem MP highlights the number of times train spotters have been apprehended by police under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2000. 62,584 have been stopped, and a further 87,000 questioned.

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