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Hhwl replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).Highly likely it was problems compounding, which will take some unpicking
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Hhwl replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).And semi-currently the Class 700 toilets are being trashed regularly
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Hhwl replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).Signal, point motors, track circuits, AWS , TPWS, functional modules and remote interlockings etc are powered from different supplies...
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Hhwl replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).Agreed and the logic for deciding what is good enough to synchronise to (and clean up) or desynchronise from isn't always perfect for...
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Hhwl replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).You are aware that the disabled toilets of the 377/6 and /7s are used as standing space on busy peak services so that there isn't...
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Hhwl replied to the thread Trains all at a stand in the Manchester area... (Thursday afternoon 06AUG2026).SPENW has already said it was an outage in very much higher voltage cable over 2miles away There are certain kinds of cable fault (e.g...
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Hhwl replied to the thread How will Gatwick station cope with a second runway?.The LBSCR OHLE clearance to overhead structures was very low - you can still see the where they had to chip away the arches at the...
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Hhwl replied to the thread How will Gatwick station cope with a second runway?.Yes longer trains is the elephant in the room that no one has wanted to talk about but not in the way you think - it is the comparative...
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Hhwl replied to the thread SWR cracking down on Vauxhall - Waterloo doughnuts/short fares - Also GTR.Agreed but it is silly not to to automate what you can, get some relatively easy wins and help set the a better tone on revenue...
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Hhwl replied to the thread SWR cracking down on Vauxhall - Waterloo doughnuts/short fares - Also GTR.The point is systems could automate most of the work and do it far cheaper than TOC staff could.
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Hhwl replied to the thread SWR cracking down on Vauxhall - Waterloo doughnuts/short fares - Also GTR.E-ticket retailing probably needs to move to a situation where key data is automatically supplied rather than needing to be requested...
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Hhwl replied to the thread Class 93 Tri-mode Loco.Minimal room for improvement: Same traction motors but the main improvement on the hills at speed is the improved transformer in the...
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Hhwl replied to the thread SWR cracking down on Vauxhall - Waterloo doughnuts/short fares - Also GTR.They opened up the market and are by far the biggest. From my observations of what other passengers are doing when I occasionally use of...
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Hhwl replied to the thread Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates.The problem is that there are lots of out of service units taking up space for upto 24hours a day most days, getting the all the already...
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Hhwl replied to the thread SWR cracking down on Vauxhall - Waterloo doughnuts/short fares - Also GTR.A huge part of the problem is Tr**nl*n* but putting that genie back in the bottle will be difficult as they will scream until there are...
