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BBelperpete replied to the thread Railway water towers.Wasn't the brick tower at St Pancras moved as part of the HS1 works? I have always thought it surprisingly small for a major terminus.
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trivia : Are there any stations that have no public exits?.Does the platform at Maespoeth on the Corris have public access? I know that there is a staff car park with access for staff and...
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BBelperpete posted the thread Signal Berth Codes approaching Waterloo on OTT and Traksy in Infrastructure & Stations.Looking at the Open Train Times map for the Waterloo area, the signals approaching Waterloo seem to have two displays. These second...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Can landowners be liable for damage caused by trees that fall onto railway infrastructure?.Did they check that you had permission to put a dropped kerb in?
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Which heritage lines do and don't have steam bans currently?.Still steam on the Isle of Wight, and that must surely count as South.
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Disruption en-route to Isle of Wight.I was more concerned about catching the hovercraft than getting a receipt for the taxi. Some taxi drivers can make issuing a receipt a...
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BOn Friday afternoon I got caught up in the disruption to services out of Waterloo. I was on the 1730 Waterloo to Portsmouth train...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread TfW - Unable to collect ticket before travel.What do you mean by "paper tickets"? TfW guards are capable of printing paper roll tickets, but not CCST. They can print tickets that...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Can landowners be liable for damage caused by trees that fall onto railway infrastructure?.What has being a landowner got to do with it? The issue is not how many neighbours they have adjacent to their land, but how many...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).If they have followed this traditional practice, then almost certainly once the switchover to generator has been made, the switch back...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).As I keep pointing out, however long the power outage lasted for is irrelevent. This is not a small domestic load. With a large load...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).In this case, the generator appears to have failed, the UPS probably did what it was designed for. You can't expect a UPS to maintain a...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).Emergency panels intended to be used by suitability trained local station staff. The main problems was that they were so rarely used...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).Backup generators do seem to be a very unreliable form of backup. Unless you have the generator running continuously, you can never be...
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BBelperpete replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).When Cannon Street signalbox burnt down, the Southern had a temporary replacement up and running very quickly (within a week IIRC). But...