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Another backronym Ive seen is "Cancelled And Proceed Empty To Depot"

That's certainly the case with the dreadful 196 units on WMT. In the centre of the carriage it's only uncomfortable, over the bogies when going over pointwork you'd think you were off the road.

From RTT it appears that the wheels came off at 13.40, the same time as the power outage. What that tells us I'm not sure. As a layman that looks to me like the ROC lost supply and didn't recover, maybe due to UPS or whatever not taking over. It seems to discount the theory that the UPS took...

Yes could be what happened, also it depends on the state of the batteries. They're going to be fine driving the UPS genny when they're being floated from the mains but take that supply away and it could go south pretty rapidly.

Surely the ROC must have a UPS with the batteries capable of keeping it going for a few hours should the generator fail to start. I suppose the problems come when track circuits, axle counters etc lose their local supply. Are signal heads locally powered with standby batteries?

Shrewsbury MP Julia Buckley posted this on Facebook in answer to a question yesterday following the visit of Heidi Alexander to Shrewsbury.

Therefore not much of an incentive to provide a decent service when it's a lot easier to just pay compensation.

On the heritage railway I signal on the procedure when signing on for duty is to check them and make an entry in the TRB including the words "sealed releases intact" I don't know why this isn't done on NR.

If we assume that not all the refunds were for 100% of the ticket price that means they would have to spend well in excess of £140k (and get refunded of course) which is a hell of a lot of money to be going out and coming in for a student. They've certainly navigated a lot of loopholes to do...

It does seem a staggering amount of money. I'm surprised that some sort of fraud detection algorithm wouldn't have been triggered, either by the huge volume of cancelled tickets or the amount of claims for delay-repay. Maybe it did, but only after 140 grand had been claimed. I believe that TFL...

I've spent most of my life in engineering and one thing I have learned is that true coincidences are extremely rare. The face that the cable system was inspected on the morning of the accident rings alarm bells for me, unless of course it's inspected every day or weekly. I'm wondering if the...

That's a good point about the railcard and ticket system being separate. I always buy tickets through one of several accounts I have with different train operating companies. It would be very easy for them to require you to upload proof of a railcard before allowing a corresponding ticket to be...

An excellent summary of the whole sad situation. Tbh, when I first moved to Shrewsbury in the 80's I liked the loco hauled solution although as you say it added time at Wolves but with young kids and luggage was better then changing trains. I didn't find it was unreliable. I didn't mind the...

Well almost. The Avanti Voyager service was only ever 2 return journeys. Silly o'clock in the morning and 15.24 (I think) to London and returns at 10.30 ish and 18.30ish. This was reduced to just one return a day during/after Covid (the early morning out journey with 18.30 return) however, this...