Recent content by AdamWW

No. I can see there is something that looks like a tree branch in that photograph but it's actually a just a heavily mangled part of the pantograph. 1792351553 Nice photo! That certainly is a lot of trams. Or trains.

You might be right. But I think it's easy to overestimate how discerning "normal" passengers are. And they might also enjoy not waiting for guard controlled door operation or for slow gap fillers, being able to hear manual announcements when near the guard as there isn't the echo effect from...

I think you may have to wait until it appears in journey history tomorrow and complains about a missing tap out. You can then add it in manually though that uses up one of your limited quota for being allowed to correct a forgotten tap. I find that customer services are usually quite helpful on...

That will be the one with the modern art on the roof that in previous life was a pantograph.

I don't suppose it's any different to the open air queuing system at Central after matches.

I can see for day trains that speeding up services is great. It certainly doesn't sound so good for the sleeper though.

Yes. It's certainly not impossible that a bug could result in different behaviour when running on a different overall route. Have there been many test runs from Merthyr through Central and back to Aberdare? From what I've seen most of the test runs started and finished at Taffs Well.

I think hitting a bridge while raised would probably explain the damage. If you didn't know what a pantograph is supposed to look like I think it would be hard to figure it out from what was left. Once the offending 398 was out of the way, the trains stuck behind it all came in with their...

While it's certainly worse than, say, the Netherlands, the vast majority of Belgian rolling stock I saw last weekend was graffiti free.

I have seen this too but not personally been aware of anything unpleasant in the stations. The people actually using the services seem to cope.

Never seen (or looked for it) myself but I think I have seen it suggested before that it can vary through a day.

The SNCB/NMBS on-line journey planner (web site or app) is quite useful as it shows train compositions. Some of them are a bit imaginative though. This web site seems to be quite accurate.

Plenty to see in Brussels-Midi/Zuid - double decker push-pull and top and tailed loco hauled trains, top and tailed non double decker services to the Netherlands plus Eurostars (London services and ex Thalys), TGVs and ICEs. Some of the double decker trains also have one single level coach. And...

If I understand these things correctly, it's not quite like that. Extra sections are in the timetable as they are just one train in more than one part, and all but the last section carried green flags. This let a train waiting for one to go in the other direction know to keep waiting until the...

I'm pretty sure a Flexpreis is valid on any train on the day of validity, so yes. But you won't have to look hard to find someone who is more knowledgeable on such matters than me.