Recent content by edwin_m

Actually, to this day, nobody knows what you and he meant.

True, but they did fall significantly before that. See graph at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-annual-report-2024/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-annual-report-2024.

AAIB investigated a drone incident a few years ago when one in use for inspection of a railway fell unexpectedly and landed near someone. I don't remember enough details for a search to turn up a report, but I've an idea it was near Dundee. Yes, that's the one.

The same applies to walking in the fourfoot if stepping from one section of ballast to the next. If I recall correctly it's too short for a normal step but trying to step over two sleepers would be too far. This is one reason why the cess is safer, but only if a clear cess exists. You need to...

Modern Railways for September has a piece on Network Rail using these too, although they haven't got a licence for beyond line of sight operation yet. I think it's a different setup from the one mentioned above, as their control room is in Southampton.

Presumably so it can link the new campus to the existing one.

The other big difference is that historic investigations would usually slap the blame on one or more of the unfortunate individuals on the ground, without looking at why they came to be in that situation.

They say the view of Tehran from a fifth-floor window is quite something. Alleged he got someone else to do his education for him.

Breaking of the lid is possible but it would probably be visibly damaged. I was thinking more of the risk of it becoming dislodged and dropping into the trough. I do remember being warned about that on a PTS course (30+ years since I did one but I doubt that has got any better).

Risk of one of the lids collapsing.

Also trains arriving at Carlisle from either direction have fairly recently been on long descending gradients.

The geology around Ripon isn't great, being prone to sinkholes.

Perhaps more comparable with walking across the tarmac to the steps in places where there isn't an airbridge.

Perhaps Trump told him to find out from the FSB how to do intelligence properly.

Closely based on the Metroliner EMUs which are about ten years older, but I don't know if they had folding steps. Superliners have the doors on the lower deck so aren't compatible with high platforms. Caltrain's recent puchase of EMUs for San Francisco to San Jose has doors at both heights -...