Recent content by josh-j

If the carriages separate from each other then brakes will apply. But also if the driver stops responding to vigilence as miloo says, and there are a few other ways too (AWS, TPWS). Derailing while staying in one piece won't do it though, the train doesn't "know" it has derailed in that sense...

All sorts of large businesses have had embarrassing major outages. Remember when Facebook locked themselves out of their datacentre? I think it's hyperbole to call this incompetence without knowing what actually happened. The fact they crashed and burned for the best part of a day doesn't imply...

Its a rather wild photo that even though obviously it could have been way worse. Well done to the onboard staff, imagine being that guy, I don't know if I'd save and keep that photo or never want to think about it again! I thought the calmness of the announcements that got reported on was very...

Oh fair enough, I was sure I've seen lower but quite possible I was mistaken!

Since a tramway is also a railway, for completeness I'll add that Manchester Metrolink has limits below 5mph in 'TSR' (Temporary Speed Restriction) type situations. The curve up to Deansgate from the city centre got slower and slower over a prolonged period as the track degraded, with...

And in all of this, everyone has forgotten poor Robert. I hope he makes a full recovery.

We also, in this country, removed the buggy from the track without any impact on passenger services. You're only making a big deal of it because you want to have a go at H&S. edit: And re your latest post - yes we did manage that! It just didn't happen immediately. And it didn't need to happen...

In fairness if it hasn't affected the trains, the more efficient option may well be to leave it until later.

The railway is a service, not a business - even if some businesses are grafted into it, as a whole it is a service. Roads "operate at a loss" too. All sorts of public services do not directly make money, why should they? They have societal and economic benefits that are worth paying for. It...

It's fortunate at least that temperatures will soon be dropping.

Obvious speculation but, heat related buckling? The track doesn't look great there. I hope nobody is injured, that looks pretty serious.

I expect the stone will weather eventually to be more similar to the rest, maybe the original stonework looked bright like that when new? Very exciting seeing signs of the new canopy!

These also exist at Manchester Piccadilly :)

I've been on a bus with very verbose repeating announcements every stop and it was really annoying and did not feel necessary. I think there's a difference between useful and not useful announcements. If it just said the location I'd be ok with it and clearly it would be great for visually...

You're saying there isn't money to provide for disabled people and that spending can't be justified on such a "relatively small percentage of the population". I realise now that you're not expressing that as your own view necessarily but simply how the funding decisions will work, which is fair...