Recent content by dbrb2

This isn't my photo - I couldn't find one immediately - but it is a result of an image search for the kind of thing I have been seeing. They seem to be mounted at the far end of vehicles. I've seen them on passenger, freight, and network rail trains - but not all of them - so it may be...

I've noticed that quite a few carriages I see now have small grey and white rectangular RFID tags bolted to them at approximately platform level - does anyone know what they are used for, and whether they are being rolled out across the whole network (since many trains have them, but lots do...

Ok cool. So for green zone workung you might phone the signaller and ask for permission to use the area between X and Y o'clock, and either get permission or not. If you get it, you can work without a lookout but have to stop if your time expires or the signaller requests it? Red zone is...

Hi I'm working with a lot of railway people at the moment, and was hoping someone could clear up a bit of terminology for me! I know that some works on track require closures, whilst others can be conducted whilst trains are running. In the latter category it seems that sometimes "line...

Thanks. We may well end up back on the original line - perhaps on one of the foot LCs where there is quite close access to the line without trees etc. Will let you know!

We may try Pilning station car-park - very straight, but lots of freight on the approach to the tunnel - thanks :-)

Somewhere like thins @Nick Ashwell ? https://goo.gl/maps/h6qQpn2W243K9V1c9 It's hard to tell from the aerial view whether we can see the track from the car-park or not - it depends how thick the trees are, and where the fence line is...but worth a look! This LC might also be a possibility -...

Random question: For some R&D work we are doing, we are looking for a location with the following parameters: Gradual curve Lots of container / flat-bed traffic Clear view of the tracks available from outside NR land Our initial test site is here...

Point taken - I just recall the NASA mars mission that was lost when two different groups of engineers used imperial and metric without telling each other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter So wondered if there was some NR standard that laid out in excruciating detail when...

Out of interest, does anyone know whether there is an official position from NR on the use or imperial vs metric units? I have seen both used very widely in documents, but nothing that seems to mandate one or the other I was curious, since you wouldn't want to think (as a basic example) you...

"Bridge" is half right. Surely you don't want to know the city as well :-) I'll fix that now!

Oops - that was down to "south" being replaced with "S" Fixed now :-)

The original non JS site still exists: http://liveTrains.co.uk/noJS Cheers, Ben

I have increased the board window to show up to 2 hours ahead - the maximum the data feed allows

The abbreviations were put in to help fit the data onto small mobile screens, but since there are inevitably more station names than I have abbreviations for, there are many stations where the full name is used. I can be slightly more generic - replacing "street" with "st" and "road" with "rd"...