Recent content by Javelin_55

OA still exists, but it's now 'Regulation decision made with best endeavours', which sounds like more or less the same thing as 'congestion'

Please don't forget that the announcement of the long closure has come 24 hours after the RAIB got on site. It's possible the evidence they've already collected points to multiple complex or conflicting causes.

Excellent point. Even with any camera footage, the worst outcome I can think of for the investigation is if all the data is reviewed and shows no signalling irregularities and the train being controlled appropriately to the conditions, up to the point of collision. Under those circumstances the...

Basically. Internally Gatwick Airport staff are furious that this has been allowed to happen. Southern services are made up of Gatwick Express liveried 387s, meanwhile Gatwick Express services are made up of one GatEx, one ex GWR, and one ex-Great Northern 387. Add to the mix a sprinkling of...

700s have 'Hogsmeade' and 'Walford East', alongside a whole host of Southern destinations, some of which Thameslink never went to and probably never will.

Absolutely, manual updates are the name of the game, and so annoying when they're missed or staff are playing catch up. I live one station away from a terminus where drivers book on. I've lost count of the number of times the CIS says the train is "on time" until it isn't, then gets cancelled...

Except sometimes it does happen - if a unit is swapped for example. It's for reasons such as this that services have to be manually cancelled in the system (at least for my TOC), and it sounds like in this case it was overlooked. Frustrating. However information systems projecting into the...

The toilet vinyl rollout is achingly slow. As far as I'm aware only about two trains per week are stopped for long enough to have some of the toilets wrapped, but if something goes wrong and those trains are needed, that obviously takes priority. I've seen one train go out with only one toilet...

TPWS interventions are treated fairly seriously, as you'd expect (they can be just as dangerous as SPaDs if the speed is high enough), but the major focus will be on why it happened, and how to prevent it next time. I imagine the process differs slightly from company to company, but generally...

Thameslink Three Bridges no longer sign the diversion to Brighton via Lewes. However Three Bridges Link 1 signs St Pancras/Kings Cross up to Hornsey for the purpose of fleet moves. Thameslink Horsham also signs Finsbury Park - King's Cross.

From what I remember, London Bridge has the fewest disgustingly early starts out of the three.

I went from TOC side into NR delay attribution. The job requires the same skills. Similarly, the TOC version also serves as a springboard into other roles. Alumni from the GTR TDA group have gone into Station Control Manager, Fleet Control, and Train Service Manager roles.

I did this job for four years. It's not for internals only. It's a fantastic opportunity to learn about how everything on the railway works, so the manager of this team is very open-minded about applicants from outside the industry. Feel free to PM me for any further details (if it's not too...

They break with a hard press. I don't know about Intercity but I'd personally use my elbow or a solid object as the glass can splinter on the units I work on.

This might have been the case in years gone by, but modern stock doesn't usually have these issues. As per the post above, this reason is usually used for cancellations when the booked stock just isn't available. This would be a reactionary 'Y' code, 'YI' which is for delays due to the inward...