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If pipe can’t be isolated - “ hot tapping “ method can be used ( I have not time explain details but easily available on internet)

It is doable in my opinion but many may disagree, but IF ( and it is huge IF) GBR were to introduce this same contracts for various grades in whole country - for example from year 2030 all new drivers sign GBR Drivers contract (and all “old” drivers keep their pay and conditions as they are or...

Needless to say that most trains from South West to Paddington use B&H Line, which would require train reversal at Reading before going to Oxford and then EW Rail, and another reversal at Milton Keynes to Euston. Only Reading drivers sign Reding West Curve if trains were to go direct to Oxford...

At times , when ATP is faulty and cab from train hast to be driven from is where fault occurred, drivers are required to select ETCS on the back wall and run without ATP. Otherwise brakes won’t release. There are speed limits and lines over which such train can run and in the cab the ATP...

Cable theft somewhere between Evesham and Worcester caused absolute carnage in the morning for trains going towards Paddington on North Cots Line ( and to lesser extent away from London). Some diverted via Cheltenham and Swindon, which did not help 100’s of people between Worcester and Oxford...

Platform length at Stansted may not be an issue since automated SDO is fitted pretty much as a standard now. As long as the unit fits between buffers and starting signal , one could get much longer trains than platform itself.

Reading

Marginally longer as most of running times have some padding added

No , GWR could not run better service as electric only powered trains were blocking the lines including Up Main at Ealing Bdw ( Heathrow Express) preventing “diesel” trains from getting to Paddington to form another service. Diesel or not it was impossible to run anything at all . Not to mention...

I love EU07 old school livery , and the sound of accelerating is just amazing …

Regularly, in GWR land Turbo services use mirrors or look back between Oxford and Didcot ( so Oxford and Banbury). Also , on very rare occasions mirrors, CCTV monitors and look back will also apply for Turbos between Didcot and Reading, if short of 387’s. I do not know if there is any booked...

I guess GBR could harmonise by saying -“ from now on such and such grade is on such and such contract if joining the railways “ and let all other contracts expire / retire / transfer, till everybody is on new this same contract everywhere. I know unions would bargain hard but in principle it...

Without naming any depo , route or operator - I saw diagrams issued for the train crew for entire week , where 8 intermediate stations at which all trains call, were missing and next stop on the diagram was 55 miles away in both directions If followed to the letter and not questioned by the...

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Hanborough on North Cotswold Line , I think there is only one a week ( Sundays) train that does not stop : 17.31 Hereford to London. It definitely did not stop last Sunday nor it was advertised to do so.