Recent content by abn444

Given this whole discussion seems to be that it doesn't need parking because it's supposed to mostly be a destination rather than an origin, I don't see why they're stopping the Cambridge fasts there, especially the ones to/from Ely

I don't see why apart from the fact it uses what's currently GWR to operate it. I believe HEx is an open access operator and open access isn't covered by GBR. From what I can tell the rail side of GBR is just going to be a big TOC running the majority of national rail services in England

There's probably a few reasons why they don't go after YouTube. Firstly they're not the "pure" original sound files, secondly they're recorded from a public area and while I'm not a legal expert I'm pretty sure any kind of argument against recording sounds in a public area would get thrown out...

Must be pretty bad then if Worldline and Anne are better

It was December '07 for the extra Weymouth services. I'm pretty sure I've got the timetable book for May '07 which still has the older pattern

I think what they're saying is that the front section should be declassified with the rear being the "actual" first class on services which have first, rather than the other way round which it is at the moment

Can't be that much of a risk otherwise standing would be banned

I'm not sure exactly when they started (my guess would be some time in the 2000s) but I believe they were a remnant of a previous service run by regional railways and later Wales & West which ran to various places beyond Bristol and into south Wales and beyond, which I believe started in the mid...

Ah that might have been it, I knew they did something with the signalling around Christmas. Indeed, it does seem not only a bad setup in general but also seems that it'd be quite easy for a potential enemy to do a lot of damage without even invading

Didn't they replace the signals back in December in this area? This incident might not be related but it seems like a coincidence

It seems odd that they plan to make Winchester set down/pick up and cut out Basingstoke given the connections at Basingstoke. Surely if they insist on doing this it'd have been better to do it the other way round and make Basingstoke pick up/set down and cut out Winchester

Isn't the reason that they're single 455s because double 455s can't work on certain routes, like Hounslow, because there's short platforms and 455s don't have SDO?

I can believe they'll be in service at some point. I saw one at New Milton the other day and it didn't just go straight through, it stopped for a bit before continuing as if it was on a test run rather than a standard ECS move

But so is £40m but it didn't stop them threatening to withdraw the travelcard. I bet the new worldline system is the cheapest (although still expensive) given how much technology has supposedly got better over the years yet atos/worldline sounds so much worse, much more robotic and rough

Amazing how TfL complain about lack of money yet they've got the money for this