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Dr Hoo's latest activity
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).On a heavily publicly funded and publicly-owned railway system, such as in the UK, the answer is basically “The Taxpayer” one way or... -
Dr Hoo replied to the thread Lumo running train with no toilets.We have been advised that ‘Hitachi’ have the contract to perform the CET and tanking work; at Ferme Park apparently. Can anyone confirm...
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread Lumo running train with no toilets.Which ‘company’ normally provides the tanking/CET at the London end?
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).Sixty years ago, under the WCML electrification project, Birmingham New Street power signal box had two levels of back-up. Normal supply...
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread When is a local train, not a local train?.I completely agree that the service provided is ‘local’ on one section and not on others. In the same way, a Euston-Glasgow train is...
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread Seaspeed hovercraft.I used the service on several occasions. During one phase the connecting train service from Boulogne to Paris was a gas turbine...
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread When is a local train, not a local train?.Precisely making my point that it is the local service that the train provides that makes it local train (rather than the operator - all...
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread When is a local train, not a local train?.An alternative way of looking at it is to think in terms of ‘trains for local people along a line of route’. This is very much where the...
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread Constant delays around the Sheffield area - what can be done to improve the situation?.A bit more on the former ‘grade separation’ south of Sheffield: Following a quick look at the Signalling Record Society set of maps of...
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread Delayed due to failure of Tesco daventry - coatbridge DRS service (17/12).As I understand it, passenger trains always ran with brake application rates that would be regarded as ‘passenger’ even if including...
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread Delayed due to failure of Tesco daventry - coatbridge DRS service (17/12).Many years ago ~ >100. I’ve got a railway history book with it in - an ‘eye witness’ account from that era.
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread Delayed due to failure of Tesco daventry - coatbridge DRS service (17/12).(Not recommended!) Many years ago the Lickey bankers would ‘assist on the fly’, even at night, even passenger trains. I.e. pass > let...
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread Kings Cross Platform Rules.The mid-platform bridge makes sense in a world where you want to distribute passengers along the full length of the train (rather than...
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread How is a commuter only train defined?.Historically there were a few ‘workers’ trains to/from industrial premises that were effectively ‘commuter only’. The Singer Works in...
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Dr Hoo replied to the thread Kings Cross Platform Rules.According to the July Modern Railways the future GBR organisation (post the Network Rail wind-up)was described as being ‘East Coast’ -...