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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).I would question whether two feeders from the same substation are truly independent. If the substation goes down, you lose both feeds...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).You are assuming that the system would automatically switch back to the DNO supply as soon as it comes back on. On systems that I am...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).Nothing will show if the Control System has no power! The screens will be totally blank, no track layout, zilch. I think you are...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).I should imagine the technicians, signallers and controllers are totally overwhelmed getting the system back up and running. For...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).I recall that Southern Region power boxes had two separate feeds from the traction supply. The concept was that if the traction went...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).Yes, but the poster you were replying to was complaining that he couldn't get this information from social media feeds. As Iskra said...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Security at Barrow Crossings.Agreed that virtually no chance of getting a new barrow crossing. The existing UWC will have an authorised user who is responsible for...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).It depends on what the problem was. If it was because of a failure to maintain the equipment properly, then yes. If it was because of...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).Agreed. You would not only need a complete identical set of workstations, but they would need to be continuously kept up to date with...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Air India crash at Ahmedabad on flight towards Gatwick - 12/06/2025.Agreed, but if you apply the same logic to the aircraft type, how many millions of hours, day after day, that type of aircraft has...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Air India crash at Ahmedabad on flight towards Gatwick - 12/06/2025.But the situation I described was not a catastrophic failure, but a switch failing to latch because it has not been operated correctly...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Can landowners be liable for damage caused by trees that fall onto railway infrastructure?.You may be right about comparison with landowners, as power distribution companies generally don't own the land on which their poles are...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Railway Telephone Circuits Help.BR lines could dial out onto the BT network by dialling 9, although not all phones had "level 9" access. Most with level 9 could only...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Railway Telephone Circuits Help.I attended The Grove a number of times, and I am fairly certain that the staff in both the main building and the CCE annex had railway...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread TFW removing off peak day returns.You may be right, but I have yet to find a TfW train on the North Wales coast where the Flexi Advance isn't available, including trains...