Re: Virgin tail lamps (or lack of them)

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

And why is this in aus.rail?

<banger59@my-deja.com> wrote in message 81lpcc$5au$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:81lpcc$5au$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> Quite right mate
> <Pine.SOL.3.96.991124104118.18312A-100000@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
>   Mark Coley <mdc1003@nospam.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > I was at Holmes Chapel station on 1st November this year and at about
> 0833
> > a Virgin train went north (diverted from the Macclesfield line I
> think).
> > It was a short train with an engine and about 5 or 6 carriages, and
> the
> > rear end of the train was just a normal seating carriage, which was
> black
> > with dirt. I could not see the usual red flashing light.
> >
> > Bearing in mind such trains are not usually on the Crewe-Manchester
> line,
> > I thought I would write to Virgin to ask them how it is that trains
> (with
> > completely black ends) can be allowed to travel without warning
> lights,
> > especially when they are on lines they don't normally run on.
> >
> > The reply I got said something along the lines of 'other people have
> > raised the issues you have mentioned and we are continually trying to
> > improve our service'.
> >
> > I would hope it was a standard letter.
> >
> > Does anyone know who is responsible for chasing things up like these,
> as I
> > feel like writing another letter.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark.
> >
> >
>
>
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