Recent content by Egg Centric

You could always travel to Leeds and take one from there where you have options if one is substituted. Either going to Leeds in cattle class in which case it's reasonably cheap, or take the opportunity to make it a rail gourmet tour and sample TPE's first menu as well which imo is better than...

There is nothing wrong with it when used as intended. To use a rubbish analogy, if the owners manual of your car says its top speed is 155mph, this doesn't mean that if you drive it at that everywhere things are going to go well for you.

Have you got a credit card? If not then unless you have a bad credit history, you might be surprised how big a limit you would be given on a graduate job. You definitely should balance whether how much you "care" about a very minor criminal conviction that will be spent within a year though...

Do 73 stock have a Westinghouse brake like the 72 stock? if so do you have enough time to react to an EPB failure without an overshoot? Doesn't sound like it - I assume this is fine cause there's plenty of signal overlap and it's a backup brake rather than something to allow normal driving?

One of the reasons I don't like buses is the vast majority of the drivers - while driving perfectly safely and legally - don't seem to be able to drive smoothly at all, ie they have a very high "jerk". And it's not that it's impossible to drive a bus smoothly (it may be more difficult than a...

Not disagreeing with that but just as an FYI despite the tabloid driven hysteria about TikTok videos all indications are that this appears to have been part of a feud (one of the perps' houses was ram raided half an hour earlier) rather than driving dangerously "for the sake of it". Which...

It depends what you want to be doing with prison. For deterrence, sure, 30 years is barely any difference to 20 years. For keeping someone out of circulation though it's 50% better! My own view is that: a) we have far too many laws (I doubt that many people are convicted because of them, but...

They certainly have. Which is why Middlesbrough is now free of crime!

Please don't do this, it will just cause a bunch of confusion. What is an anonymous cheque? Also how many students have chequebooks :lol: Since GTR are now state owned, if you *really* wanted to do this then the treasury accepts voluntary contributions. I would suggest practically any charity...

Ok thanks - well dunno what anyone's moaning about then :lol:

It'll make no difference, in much the same way it won't persuade the politicians to legalise what in almost all types of class A drug has a far better safety/harm profile than alcohol. Unfortunately complicated problems have complicated solutions. Fixing the rift between traveller and gorger...

Not a lot other than to recognise that some of the cost of that unaffordability is being passed on to those illegible for the schemes themselves in the form of lower wages than they would otherwise be getting - even if the schemes are fully funded.

At an individual level, no. But surely when Network Rail make a 'global' offer of an average 3% uplift (or whatever) the finance team has worked out what this is going to cost, and in doing so they have taken into account the cost to the business not just of headline salary but also also their...

Sure but it wouldn't do that forever, it would be rotated. This won't be the case for eg a pacer on the Weardale Railway. It's a pretty obvious point so I'm sure it's been thought about; curious of conclusion. This is interesting - the impression I had, based not really on very much other...

I'm still not sure that I've made my question clear - is the employer subsidy for the "older" pension greater and is differential pay based upon pension permitted by the inion? If that's the case, then the newer workers are to an extent subsidising the older ones because they are getting less...