Recent content by Julia

The optimisation of using the OHLE to the very end is surely small beer compared to the costs if you misjudge it slightly (or forget altogether) and either damage your train or bring the wires down...

Having seen a few of the Mentour Pilot videos, I did wonder why so much of the actual keeping of planes from colliding with each other, both in the air and on the ground (rather than just flying accurately from A to B) is done by voice contact between humans over radio, rather than tech either...

Super, thankyou!

Is it possible to get the full formation of the Inverness/Aberdeen -> London sleeper this morning, would have gone through Huntingdon about 7.15? 92023 was on the front. (As an aside, 45 late and stuck behind a 1P 700/1, it seems super-frustrating for all on board that it couldn't divert to...

There's a lot of GN commuters who will be delighted to hand over the 700/0s - shame I'm retiring too soon to see the 0700 from St Neots and 1742 from Kings Cross get an upgrade!

Does this effectively give him a ransom strip that he's threatening to make use of, or are there guaranteed public rights over this little pocket of land? If the former, then someone really screwed up...

Money is also needed to pay the humans who own resources to allow you to have access to them, either directly (eg. food) or indirectly (eg. the materials needed to build and fix robots). In your extreme conclusion, whoever is sitting on the supply of robot oil is not going to need to work, but...

What I don't follow is the projections for the office space market. There's already masses going up in the area - a giant at the back of Broadgate - and plenty of empty blocks within walking distance, plus the whole of the triangle of Worship St / Curtain Road / Clifton St is earmarked for...

With my cynical software engineer's hat on, I'm sure a lot of firms in this line of work are keenly aware that post-release modifications are a *lot* more profitable than the initial job, when you effectively have the purchaser over a barrel. And therefore they have a perverse incentive to allow...

Recently I've noticed that RRBs on busy routes - like the recent East Grinstead - Three Bridges one - have larger numbers of vehicles on standby, the downside is that they are either high-floor coaches which take forever to load due to people's luggage (and I don't want delicate stuff thrown in...

And, by my experience, they can reschedule at minimal notice including bringing departures earlier, have terrible punctuality with no comeback if eg. they drop you off after onward connections from the airport have ceased for the night, and Ts & Cs loaded up with gotchas to squeeze you for more...

Phonecards. Especially those ones which had a stripe of little segments and the payphone "burnt" them off one by one. Won't be long before you can add the entire realm of public phones to this list.

A savvy contract would then have "we will deduct the cost of any additional heavy overhauls needed to keep full service running in the event of delivery later than <X>" written into it. Because otherwise, you're effectively a hostage to the builders of the new stock.

There are two diverging routes to the right from the platform - the horizontal feather indicates the Cambridge branch, while a right-diagonal feather indicates crossing to the down fast. Likewise, approaching on the down fast, the diagonal feather shows the down slow towards Arlesey, and the...

I remember the pink slip you had to sign on board the aircraft before landing in the States to confirm that you weren't, and hadn't ever been, a member of a communist organisation. Arguably, given the compulsory membership and their policies in the early 1980s, the NUS should have counted, but I...