Recent content by Andrew1395

How are Grand Central coping with the loss of (their shared use) XC control?

You also need to record the industries revenues and liabilities (season tickets, and monies owed to third parties), and to record journeys by flow for reporting and analytical reasons. Plus a system to do the net settlement of commission to third party retailers, and to ensure that commission is...

They were last updated in the early 1990s - There was no appetite to touch (or pay) ORCATS. I am aware of only three changes since privatisation - removing the speed threshold due to HS1, changing the sample dates to anywithin the timetable period, rather than a Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday of...

I have to say the article is not “very accurate” For a start ORCATS factors only apply to inter available products where operators have not “agreed” a set of allocation factors. While it is true the demand profiles in ORCATS have not been updated since privatisation. The ORCATS mathematical...

No part of the station was a listed building in 1985. Maybe the old AM made his views known and the council put in a listing. We had in my time lost the L&Y side for a big supermarket and car park development. lots of Grade 2 listed buildings get altered and some even demolished. It’s a...

When I started my career at Preston Area Managers in the mid 1980s, one of my Area Managers big disappointments was the failure of BRB to demolish and rebuild Preston. He thought a new station building on fishergate with a commercial building on a raft over the platforms would be the way to...

That’s fine, I just wondered if an underground journey to Tottenham Hale counted as a journey between London Termini, as opposed to a journey between London Stations. As the staff travel conditions are not (worded) the same as public ones. I can see London Victoria to London Liverpool Street...

Are leisure card privileges rate tickets valid on the Underground to Tottenham Hale? It’s complex I think the situation is:- Travel Restrictions: The card cannot be used for free travel, commuting to work, or on most London Underground (LU) and DLR services. It is valid for privilege-rate...

A journey via University and Worcestershire Parkway fails the fares check as the origin fare (Longbridge) is lower than the University fare. So the double back through Longbridge invalidates the itinerary. The OP could ask WMT to sponsor another easement to resolve this. Easements 700473 and...

Blimey celebrating a capability that a Leading Railman and a PORTIS machine delivered 40 years ago. No doubt they will now start keeping the Barriers closed after 20:00 every day to protect revenue.

As an ex rail employee the railway I would say is indeed safer now. If you want a better indicator than crash fatalities to measure “safeness”, I would look at the trends on staff injuries and deaths. You could compare those events in the UK to say comparable sorts of railways in Europe, both...

RDG (ATOC) manage the scheme. The scheme (participant TOCs who accept the product), technically are the product owner; but yes for practical purposes RDG are the product owner and will seek approval from the scheme members to amend the factors.

LENNON uses agreed allocation factors for Rover products as sales income is apportioned at sale. There will be different Agreed Allocations by product. The product owner manages the factors used by Lennon

Harrow & Wealdstone in 1952 which I think involved a three train collision, the two slow lines were open at 05:00 the following morning. The DC (Lioness Line) three day after, as the wrecked locomotives had to cleared from the track. The fast lines I think were closed for four days. A temporary...

Won’t a journey planner want to have a fixed link in place between Paddington and Marylebone. eg Tube line Or alternatively, a scheduled service by alternative mode, in the data that the ticket is valid on to join together the non rail legs? Is there a fixed link walk time then the journey...