Recent content by coppercapped

Cut them some slack, I thought English was their second language...

This southern entrance serves the housing along and around the Tilehurst Road, of which there is a lot. It is well used, especially during the peaks. There is no direct access to Platform 2 from the Tilehurst Road, passengers have to walk to the Oxford Road entrance using Platform 1, cross...

Absolute rubbish. There is pedestrian access to Reading West station from the Tilehurst Road complete with ticket machine and an automatic gate. Look at Streetview in Google maps.

This response is not relevant. English has become the lingua franca for international air travel, science and technology. Signs in many airports around the world use English as a second language to assist those who can't read e.g., Japanese, Chinese or Malayan characters. In many countries...

Some prolific posters on this forum frequently suggest that Paddington is poorly situated for a central London terminus by being essentially out in the sticks. So why would passengers for Salisbury schlepp out there...? (Giving Crossrail as part of the answer is not valid...!!) Back in the day...

Does nobody read earlier posts anymore? In post no. 10 I wrote Quote - Secondly, the issue is not so much the platform height but how far a platform - or any other obstacle such as a bridge girder - is set back from the running rails to allow the stock built to the UIC gauge to pass - end quote

Thank you for the comment but if you had read my earlier post no.5 (found here) you will find that I had already addressed this point:

:) ('Young whippersnapper' - nicest thing anyone has said to me all day!!)

I was just re-reading this thread and for some reason this post didn’t register with me the first time around but if what is reported is true then it is unbelievable. What on earth is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom doing wasting his time on dealing with auto-renewable subscriptions...

I'm not sure that I understand your point. Firstly, I presume that when you write about the 'Berne Gauge' you are referring to, in today's context, one of the variants of the UIC's G(abarit)B loading gauge. Secondly, the issue is not so much the platform height but how far a platform - or any...

This question calls to mind a thread on the so-called 'Berne Gauge' of some ten or twelve years ago either here or on Usenet. I made some notes at the time which I use here but I'm afraid that I no longer have a record of links to the original threads with the exception of a reference to a...

Hmm! HEx lost its dedicated rolling stock maintenance depot at Old Oak Common because the site was needed for the HS2 station. There were proposals to build a replacement depot at, IIRC, somewhere near Langley at HS2's expense but that was rejected. The only other halfway suitable sites, so I...

This type of argument is bonkers: I thought that people subscribing to this forum wanted to see more people using the trains and fewer using the roads... ...quite apart from the noxious emissions produced by taxis (no, they are not all electric) compared to the electric HEx.

Heathrow Express started running nearly 30 years ago - how long do you think people need to find out 'Available alternatives'? Does everybody need to be spoon-fed? 1789308747 Why do you think that Burnham is 'going to war'? And, apart from anything else, I thought air transport was the...

The way I parsed your post was that your first paragraph stated: As I wrote, many of these large scale plants are now in China and they supply the whole world. I’m struggling to think of large manufacturing plants in the UK which need trainload quantities of bulk materials. And even if they did...