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As I understand, police in the UK now use the term Road Traffic Collision (RTC) rather than RTA, on the assumption that, as in this case, nearly all such incidents involve some level of responsibility.

The post subject is a quote of the headline of the linked article.

That will, of course, be the aim of the RAIB investigation.

On SE 375s passengers would switch the reading lights on during winter months. Once on they would tend to be left on.

Does anybody know the reason for the delay to this service. At Charing we heard initially that it was a fire on one of the diesels at Lenham, then that it was failure of a diesel.

Its advertising for Steam Dreams, who managed the booking of seats for the trip. They use Cathedrals Express as branding for many of their tours.

With all of the major work being carried out, not only Crossrail, there is probaly a lot of railway archeology being uncovered. The Shakespeare Cliff is one example where it won't be practical to preserve it, but how much of it is even appreciated, let alone recorded. Crossrail Press release...

Southeastern website

Not sure that this is the right forum but some might be interested in the future of the last cross channel train ferry. Nigel Scutt posted this on the Dover Marina facebook page There is some information on Nord Pas-de-Calais here and some photos here

Its 18 months since I have travelled regularly during peak hours, but on SouthEastern the conductor would announce first class as declassified and compensation given to passengers with first class tickets, when a train was overcrowded. The compensation could be claimed at the destination...

The police no longer refer to road crashes as accidents as most road traffic collisions are avoidable and they, therefore, do not regard them as accidents. The Oxford Dictionary gives two definitions of accident: 1 An unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally...

Noticed the warning/stop lights went off when the barriers were raised. A cyclist chanced his arm but other motorists were sensible enough to stay put. Should there be a facility to raise the barriers without cancelling the lights?

Are we talking about: B1 Business - Offices (other than those that fall within A2), research and development of products and processes, light industry appropriate in a residential area, B2 General industrial - Use for industrial process other than one falling within class B1 or B8...

It is contrary to byelaws on TfL railways "10(6) In the case of automatic closing train doors, no person shall enter or leave by the door, force open the door or obstruct the door in any way when it is closing."

We recently travelled the California Coast route on Amtrak from LA to Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara to Oakland for San Francisco. LAX to SBA is about 90 miles and is timetabled to take 2 hours, SBA to OKJ is about 320 miles and timetabled to take 8 hours. The thing we noticed was the dwell...