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Tom Cairns

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Professional keyboard masher. I make @RealtimeTrains, fettle @RailMiles and occasionally do professional railway software stuff. @[email protected]

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Tom Cairns
9 months
Hello. I don’t do this frankly disturbing app anymore unless the company I want to talk to is only here. You can find me in other places under the same handle. Unless it’s owned by Meta, in which case it’s swlinestom. See you on the other side.
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Tom Cairns
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RT @RailMiles: We've released an update to RailMiles in preparation for a series of improvements and updates to all of our products. Includ….
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Tom Cairns
22 days
I'm on a train heading up to Derby for @greatestgather tomorrow. I'm doing a thing at midday. Then I'll just be wandering aimlessly around for the rest of the day I expect.
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Tom Cairns
2 months
RT @RailMiles: We're clearing out some of our shelves and are discounting some of our RailMiles merchandise with hoodies starting from just….
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Tom Cairns
11 months
Some small enthusiast website is 12 years old today.
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Tom Cairns
1 year
I think that has genuinely been the worst day of travel I’ve had in my *life*. Not a single form of public transport that I’ve tried or have travelled on has operated properly.
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Tom Cairns
1 year
I’m at Wick airport. @EasternAirways have deemed it appropriate to cancel my flight for operational reasons.
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Tom Cairns
1 year
Trains.
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Tom Cairns
1 year
Trains late last night.
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Tom Cairns
1 year
Railcard discounts to reduce. Not that I have a national railcard any more (not entitled!) but not exactly a positive step.
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The discount will be trimmed from 34% to 33.4% from the middle of September after system changes.
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Tom Cairns
1 year
don't put all your eggs in one basket comes to mind today.
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Tom Cairns
1 year
Had a lot of @nectar points stolen the other day. They froze account, are "investigating" and have sent me another card. That hasn't arrived yet. So right now, to shop at @sainsburys I have to spend a lot more than normal (can't use Nectar Price!). That doesn't seem right at all.
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Tom Cairns
1 year
This is hilarious. @Avis are telling me (on DM) to contact the “Government” to appeal a *private* parking charge that was issued in *their* car park.
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Tom Cairns
1 year
@Avis And, sure enough, at 1601 - "our offices are now closed" *click*.
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Tom Cairns
1 year
I have now been waiting on hold with @Avis for 80 minutes to talk to them about this nonsense.
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Tom Cairns
1 year
Today I got a letter from @Avis UK with a parking charge notice charging me £90 for parking the car at . Avis . to drop the car off. Bonkers.
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Tom Cairns
1 year
I appear to be travelling on @Gordon_3417’s @JREast_official cousin
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Tom Cairns
1 year
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Tom Cairns
1 year
PSA: @RailMiles will be offline for a little while this morning as we do a data centre migration. You can see more info at (and in general too!) and keep up to date there. We also have RTT status on that page as well.
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Tom Cairns
1 year
Dear @Microsoft, if you're going to send me a one time code please tell me what it is for. Don't tell me to not just worry when I didn't request it. Particularly when I'm receiving a lot of them.
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