Recent content by LdnNiko

If I may give a passenger, rather than a high-level industry perspective? Used to use the train every couple of weeks to visit family living only 25 miles away. The wife and I would go from fairly central London to North Herts on a Saturday morning, return Sunday evening. The journey was...

Keeping similar class stock with the same TOC would be far too sensible. Someone clever at the DfT will think that installing the pantographs will be too costly, so will send the units to Southeastern.

Again, except that ~4/5 of the original Digswell parish is *not* part of the WGCDC area, even by the excellent map that you provided. The bit that is, is Green Belt recreational use and open fields and the district council shows them as distinct areas, as separated by Green Belt boundary...

Except that it is not perfectly correct. The area (Digswell) isn't absorbed into Welwyn Garden City at all. The river Mimram creates a natural barrier and the Digswell viaduct is one of only a handful of crossing points (not that it is the Severn or anything). North of WGC, yes. But still far...

It doesn't include 'Town' or 'Central', but for distantly-located *and* erroneously-named station, could we have a mention for Welwyn North? 1.6 mile walk from, and located south-east of, the village it is named after.

My Local: Elephant and Castle Setting: Situated behind a run-down shopping centre (that should have already been in the process of being demolished and re-built) and onto a poorly-lit street at night that has crime issues. The awkward, angular station concourse is beneath the platforms at...

Just a mess. Again. When should we expect the timetable to actually be of any use to passengers?

Do extra wheel rotations over non-original routings mean that the announcements are always early or is the distance counter reset once the next station has been reached? If the latter, could someone explain what system is used to achieve this?

Does that mean that after 20+ years we will lose "This train is for Blondon [sic] King's Cross"? Not sure how I'll cope with this change! Looks like a worthwhile improvement, to be fair.

And yet when the automation failed, the aircraft was no longer in straight and level flight. See again the text from the report below. Clearly, everything worked as planned until such time as it didn't - it was then necessary for human operators to intervene. Leaving the aircraft to do it's...

That's clearly balls when reading the BEA accident report. Page 172 highlights that: Additionally, page 46 describes the meteorological conditions encountered at the time the pitot tubes froze over: While I'm no fan of the crew (who through aircraft pitch and engine power settings...

I finally had the opportunity to have my first journey aboard a 387 (albeit with GWR). What a complete disappointment! Whereas originally I expected seats similar to 377s before the /6, today's three-stop journey between West Ealing and Paddington disavowed me of the notion that this thread...

Broken link - here it is again http://www.heathrowrail.com/ It looks to have been initiated following this Network Rail feasibility study produced this time last year, with news articles appearing early 2016 and even securing a Commons debate in October (see Hansard). Given the sparse...

With the changes in political hue of the mayor and the change in political attitude from the new SoS for Transport, the consultation paper 'A new approach to rail passenger services in London and the South East' clearly wasn't worth the bandwidth it wasn't printed on. If Metro services could...

Here is a picture of the letter as described in The Standard's article, linked by KTHV https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzESxUyXcAAvecw.jpg:large While it's clearly dogmatic to refuse to grant TfL the right to run London's suburban rail services just to prevent a Labour mayor from being in...