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Their website states that it will be stored in Newark Northgate for collection or you can pay to get it sent to you LNER lost property database MissingX is the provider of the LNER lost property database, helping to reunite you with your lost property. If you have lost an item at or on a train...

The name change from WMSCC to BROC looks like it only considered the fringes. It is only when you get get to a national system like GSM-R that you notice. WMSCC should have been renamed to BIROC or something similar. Using the GSM-R phone book to contact the signaller is rare I would have thought.

Well in a similar outage in November 2023 in Edinburgh, the interlockings lost communication with the trackside modules and the messages overwhelmed the control system. I do not know if they replaced certain parts but I would not take any PR statements as gospel at this time.

Only for those who wish to travel without a toilet. What did Lumo provide for those unwilling to travel without a toilet even taking into consideration the mitigations?

Indeed, the proverbial race to the bottom which some think is acceptable

Did they offer passengers alternative travel to their destination?

It is unacceptable to run that service without working toilets. The arrogance of them to think they could get away with it.

The signalling system is fail safe therefore any interruption to the power or communications between the interlocking and trackside and the interlocking and signaller control system will put the signals to red (which are likely on different power supply to the interlocking or the control system).

A UPS is made up of batteries

The outage incident in Edinburgh a couple of years ago was this, there was a wiring error and the UPS was in bypass mode.

GSM-R is owned and operated by Network Rail

It is very misleading precisely because 'a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing' I can, and have, written accessible summaries for readers who do not understand signalling and it is not misleading

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TPWS TSS & OSS fitment at every signal to protect rear end collisions? That will cost an absolute fortune 1782313363 You are assuming the train ahead is stopped at the signal ahead. It could be stopped anywhere in the signal section.

The risk assessment carried out when TPWS was rolled out determined that the cost does not justify the expense of fitting them.