Recent content by greatkingrat

The good news is that every few thousand years, half the stain will disappear!

If that was the case, anyone wearing a football shirt would be banned from the railway (which some might think is a good thing!)

The RDG Staff Brief says

There were always two presenters from the beginning (Forsyth and Tess Daly). I suspect the new three earn less in total than Tess and Claudia did.

It's not just the new stations, they need to build the new platforms at Hendon and Brent Cross West, plus the line needs to be resignalled before any passenger service could run.

Let's be realistic, anybody checking the ticket is unlikely to have memorised all the departure times on the Cross City Line, so wouldn't know what time trains were booked to leave Sutton Coldfield anyway.

I guess it varies by TOC, but I'm pretty sure if a manager saw me departing a station with my head stuck out the window, they wouldn't be very happy!

I wonder why TfL spent large amounts of money on feasability studies when they could have just got Questaware to do a back of the envelope calculation and tell them it wouldn't work?

That's the wrong route - that is the connection from Acton Wells to the GWML. https://www.railwaydata.co.uk/linefiles/route/?ELR=CAW is the Dudding Hill line.

The problem is that even when a train is cancelled, you can normally only travel up to two hours before or after, so travelling on the 1448 instead of the 1748 may not be considered a reasonable alternative.

TfL don't operate a normal Delay Repay scheme. They are still obliged to meet the minimum compensation listed in the Conditions of Travel, but that only applies to delays of over 1 hour, which it sounds like this wasn't

It already stops at Brent Cross West, so adding a Hendon stop doesn't provide any new interchange.

Well TfL obviously think there is. It won't be a bay platform, but a siding to the west of the station.

If it was one station maybe, but I'm not sure it will be much quicker by the time you add on the walk between the Old Oak stations.

Also from a practical perspective, you never know what might happen. If something goes wrong, a shunt which was expected to take a few minutes, you could end up stuck away from a platform with passengers on board for a prolonged period.