Recent content by Astonished

A rise of 20C in 9 hours is not what I would call rapid in relation to faults with thermal causes. I suspect all yesterday's failures would have shown up over the next few months as seasonal daily max temps climbed. It's just that sweeping right from recent maxs in the teens to 29C in one day...

Adding the above discussions to my own experiences, I feel Redhill has become a textbook case of an enterprise that is focused on achieving objectives defined in terms of train movements, and it has been forgotten what the purpose of the new infrastructure is: to improve people's journeys. It's...

Forgive me: what is a scheme sponsor? And who or what entity in the case of this particular investment decision?

I have sympathy for you - and even more (due to the larger number of them) for people affected by last moment platform changes 2>0 or 0>2. I only use the station about once a week, at random times of day, but I think about 7 out of 10 times since Plat.0 opened, this happens. It doesn't bother me...

Can I amplify infobleep's point about this? People missing their train has bad enough consequences, but anything that systematically causes mass rushing on stairs will, sooner or later and repeatedly, be the cause of accidents with injuries, and perhaps worse. How many passengers are not going...