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springstomind
August 1, 2015, 1:52am

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Drove two hours daily to get to Bulford for pre deployment training for Herrick....it was a illegitimate so know exactly how you feel. Now drive 1 mile to camp each day. Laughing. Decent cost effective diesal motor, sat nav, an understanding boss, travel allowances / benefits, know your best services... Especially on way home on a Friday when KFC sounds better than the misses attempt at shepherds pie. Also... PREP YOUR excrement THE NIGHT BEFORE... Regardless of how tired you are after work...Have you clothes ironed and ready, lunch packed, wallet, phone, watch, keys, socks, boxers, razor.. Always in the same place.. You'll appreciate it in the morning when you've got up early but have 25 minutes to watch sky news nd read the fishy for bollox comments like this.
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August 1, 2015, 2:00am

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since 1998 worked in donny 108 mile round trip ....12 hour shifts so out house 14+ hours a day ......of course M180 /M18 is an easy/boring road to drive......no pay and no milage so feeling sad now !!!!


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since 1998 worked in donny 108 mile round trip ....12 hour shifts so out house 14+ hours a day ......of course M180 /M18 is an easy/boring road to drive......no pay and no milage so feeling sad now !!!!


That's some doing Brazilnut!   it must be tiring mate, there is a chance I will have to travel to the Donny area, I suppose it's easier to get to than some rural locations but that M180 is a very boring stretch of road. Do you start early? I would be doing a 3 shift system 0600-1400,  1400-2200,  2200-0600 which includes Sunday's so I would need to be on the road at 0430ish early turns I reckon.  


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0700 - 1900 or 1900 to 0700 usually leave about 0530 or 1730 from Empire pub area and get home 0800 /2000 but the difference is ....I have to run the railway  when i get here you just snooze in signalbox or gossip on the telephone line lol


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0700 - 1900 or 1900 to 0700 usually leave about 0530 or 1730 from Empire pub area and get home 0800 /2000 but the difference is ....I have to run the railway  when i get here you just snooze in signalbox or gossip on the telephone line lol


Sounds like you know me well mate.  


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August 2, 2015, 11:52am

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0700 - 1900 or 1900 to 0700 usually leave about 0530 or 1730 from Empire pub area and get home 0800 /2000 but the difference is ....I have to run the railway  when i get here you just snooze in signalbox or gossip on the telephone line lol


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Correct Pete! I would say most of my time of being on the fishy has been whilst at work, believe me though I can be very busy at work you know. . It's called multi tasking!


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August 6, 2015, 9:29pm
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I drive 90 - 100 minutes each day to and from work, do 700-800 miles a week.
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Been "commuting" to Hull (from Goole) for the past 10 years Chris

Driven here for the most part but past 6 months have been on Northern Rail into Paragon and then a bus ride out to the port area

People I work with who are local ask how I do it, but as someone above says you get used to it over time

How the shifts thing would sit with me I don't know (as I do just a Mon-Fri 9-6 thing) but when driving I would switch on the radio to make the journey go that bit easier and give me time to build up on the way in and unwind on the way home...traffic around Hull does my head in to be honest but I chose to leave later than I should so as to get a clear run home

Letting the train take the strain is something I've grown to quite like this year....just sitting there and watching the world go by appeals to me. The only problem with that is no flexibility and you have to be in a certain place and time for departures / connections etc and of course, points failures causing delays!

Are you still going to be involved with rail in any way or are you branching out in to something else? Good luck with it whatever  
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August 7, 2015, 10:19pm

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Will be staying signalling Tim, was at Hull paragon signal box Wednesday funnily enough, was looking at the panel as the box is on our closed list for jobs, will either be north of the river Hull/Goole up as far as Beverley or west as far as Donny or south as far as Wainfleet. Will know my new job at the end of the month Tim when the allocations are made, the jobs are allocated under PTR& R arrangements.


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