Recent content by greatkingrat

The ladder is for climbing down from a (right way up) train, not for climbing out of a train on its side.

If you are in a coach that starts shaking violently, then trying to stand up and walk to the nearest alarm probably isn't a good idea and would increase the risk of injury.

The note in the signalling berth was removed at 0330. https://vaildata.uk/berth_history?describer=D3&berth=A025

There is a train now in P12, P11 is still showing as blocked though.

And now Surrey Fire & Rescue Service have had to put out a statement asking people to stop dialling 999 to report their neighbours having BBQs!

It isn't something you have to know right this second. Sending a normal text message that you could read at your convenience would be sufficient.

Or just have a rota system - today A B and C will be answering calls, D and E will be replying to emails - swap round tomorrow.

While things may get a bit better, the pool of people willing to do RDW in August is more limited than usual, so there may well be some cancellations still happening.

And presumably you could legally buy such a ticket with a railcard that you don't own to reduce the price further?

I think the issue is reception must have told him the room number, otherwise he wouldn't have known which door to kick down.

At London Overground, drivers can be rostered for max 26 Saturdays a year, so there will be fewer drivers rostered on a Saturday than on a weekday. I think Elizabeth Line have something similar as well.

The idea of charity fundraising being covered by an NDA is rather odd, surely the whole point is to make as many people aware as possible to maximise donations.

If you did engage with them, the settlement would be 23x2 singles Esher-Waterloo (£9.60) plus say £300 admin fee, so something like £750. However they admit in the original email they don't have any evidence, just suspicions, so the best advice is just to ignore them. Also stop using that...

It is not an either/or situation. Companies can have multiple ways of posting information. And while X may have declining usage, it is still way ahead of similar platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon.

As far as Joe Public is concerned, if they book a trip on a steam train, they want a trip on a steam train. They don't care about "heritage diesel traction".