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Originally Posted by XCGuard
Nice to see a fellow railwayman on here.
I work as a Train Manager/Senior Conductor or simply a Train Guard for Cross Country Trains (ex Central Trains  ) |
So a back end bell ringer then
Or as one of my colleagues says over the PA when he needs to contact the guard when their doing tickets in the train 'Will the ding-a-ling give us a ring'
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Originally Posted by XCGuard
Delayed my train one morning about a year ago:
Phone rings at home "Are you planning on coming in this morning?"
Me: I don't start till.....rubs eyes......10 mins ago .
Manager: Train's waiting with some pi**ed off people onboard, get yourself here sharpish you muppet!!
Just my luck I sleep in on one of the few days there is nobody sitting spare/standby.
The irony being I was presented with a certificate the previous day for excellence in customer services lol with high street vouchers as a Thankyou gift. 
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I had always heard from friends who worked for CT that they were a bunch of miserable bar-stewards. Being called a muppet and getting vouchers sounds not to bad