Recent content by Moriarty01

Regarding the strike between 24th and 27th December. Does anyone in here know the impact it will have on Eurostar services booked to run on 26th December?

Christian Wolmar was on the radio earlier giving his opinion/speculation on the incident and he raised the point that the second train may have had a red signal but was unable to brake in time due to leaves on the lines / general slippage causing it to skid into the first train.

Many thanks both of you for your help. That makes much more sense! I hadn't thought to notice that the car was a left hand drive!

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to use but I'm hoping someone might be able to help me with this photograph taken by my dad back in the late 1960s. I think it shows a Fowler steam locomotive numbered 44460 but I've no idea what the location of this photo is. I'm not even sure if this...

Some further info on this: Michael Palin's published diaries show that filming for the trip took place between 7th May and 21st May 1980. An initial cut shown on 30th July was disappointing and "depressing viewing" for Palin. More work done on the editing and commentary on 25th August and on...

Thanks for all your comments on this. It does sound like conductors are placed in an impossible situation in trying to maintain a balance between issuing tickets and warning passengers about the conditions of travel are. Maybe it would be better if RPI only checked tickets at station entries...

I travel daily on SouthEastern Trains on the Maidstone East line with an annual season ticket. There is a conductor onboard and each day he/she will pass through the train checking tickets and asking if anyone needs to buy a ticket. They do not ask why anyone buying a ticket did not do so...

Seems like there has now been enough interest in the issue for it to be picked up by the local news: https://www.kentlive.news/news/southeastern-toilets-trains-1342446.amp?service=responsive&__twitter_impression=true

A common occurance on the SouthEastern twitter feed for the last couple of months is a message from SouthEastern saying that there are issues with the toilets on their trains and they are trying to get them fixed. Does anyone in here know that the problems are? Is it affecting their whole...

Does anyone know why Southeastern are having (what appears to be) so many problems with these units on the Maidstone East Line? Over the past month they have had daily cancellations of services on this line or are running a single 4-car unit instead of two 4-car units coupled together. I can...