Recent content by 455refurb

Thoughts and prayers for the crew member now fighting for their life. And, undoubtedly the driver and signaller have between them saved a lot of lives with their quick and professional action to get the train rapidly platformed. I hope their collective action will be recognised in the days and...

One of the first witnesses talking on Sky News last night said they had pressed the passcom and praised the driver's response, and also said the driver did a "right thing" stopping the train where they did (which was very nice to see).

I live in Horsham and apart from work in London, most of my life is spread around Leatherhead, Epsom, Sutton, and Carshalton. I am right in the target market for the Mole Valley line but we call it "the joke train" in our house because it's basically useless. Case in point: we've been invited...

The length of delay and consequential vigilante action - just another example of the symptoms and outcome of the state of today's rail industry in the UK. Paralysed by inaction, lack of resources, political meddling, and endless procedural bureaucracy. That is not to say that the vast majority...

That's surprising as one would think it would be an obvious diversionary route to maintain London services for the Arun Valley stations. They do run this way during Planned Work. As always thoughts to those who've had to deal with this incident on the front line.

I have read elsewhere that the circumstances are, unfortunately, suspicious. A lot of cancellations from Horsham as you'd expect. Are Victoria services diverting via Dorking and Sutton?

Having now heard some of the new recordings, I can tell you this is what you get when you don't use professionals. I say this as a professional voice artist who has been heard on the railways in the past, and I'm also quite experienced at recording for auto-attendants and what's known as IVR...

It's really high time the ORR ran a human factors based investigation into the safety case and effectiveness of announcements on the UK rail network (including TfL routes). I would argue the frequency of announcements do indeed reduce the safety and usability of the network. TfL in particular...

It absolutely is down to Hitachi and absolutely not incompetence from GWR, to be running stock which is supposed to be Dawlish proof through Dawlish. The issue here is Hitachi's shoddy, cracking, embarrassment of a unit, all of which should run on the network with the headcode assigned by Exeter...

It's quite possibly an event at the RAI centre which is a massive conference, exhibition and performance centre. Amsterdam doesn't have enough hotel capacity so if they have a big show on it pushes the prices up hugely. I usually check first but completely forgot on this occasion! 1682450030...

Hi all, I have a ticket to Amsterdam on Eurostar for a business trip but for whatever reason hotel prices on my first night are absolutely astronomical (schoolboy error in not checking before booking!). Rotterdam is looking far more reasonable on that first night - would I be able to exit the...

Not sure if the 345's have been mentioned, but that is an example of a modern train with a very pleasant internal ambience to me. The nicely diffused warm light contrasts well with the dark grey panelling, with brighter lighting coming on in the door areas at stops. This is entirely subjective...

GWR have now loaded the services for this week for booking, and updated their website with details of suspensions for March (quite a few, for various reasons).

Does anyone know if the Plymouth services will return next week as scheduled? There's a message on GWR's Pullman Dining page about engineering work suspending dining on that route until today, however, when trying to book a table for next week no services are showing. Never tried it before and...

My employer now mandates against rail travel for business, has ended its contract with our business rail ticketing supplier, and we have a new deal with Enterprise car hire. This is not a small company, either. This happened after our Managing Director was stranded in Liverpool by Avanti and...