Recent content by mrmartin

You are far better borrowing the money from credit card/personal loan/overdraft and making minimum payment on that for a few months IMO than defaulting on paying GTR and getting a criminal record which is going to hang over you for 11 years in your sector. Obviously don't default on anything...

In fairness to GWR when I reported a very serious jolt on twitter DMs with a screenshot of GPS location they did reply very quickly. Whether anything got done im not sure. But yes I agree with the other poster on accelerometers. You'd think they would be fitted to all trains and send back data...

There's surely no way that they're powering the lights etc 50 miles away from this facility??? The AC losses involved would be absolutely insane. Surely not? If you kept interlocking but lost the control system itself then at least you havent lost all the positions of the trains (etc) and it's...

You sure about that? I believe UPS generally switches back to mains power automatically if the incoming power is restored and stable for a period of time (60s or so). Especially if there is no other power to restore to (ie a generator?).

Something has went catastrophically wrong here. The generator is basically irrelevant. In a proper datacentre you'd expect UPS to last for probably 10-15mins regardless. So a 90s power outage should be completely covered by UPS. _even worse_ it seems the core "servers" themselves didn't have...

To be honest, a big warning coming up that "you've purchased x short tickets" recently would probably deter a lot of people. 1786027478 I don't think there's as clear line between the two as you think. My point is that we get the most 'worried' people on here by nature that they've went to the...

Keep in mind there is a huge selection bias going on here. It's very likely that only anxious fare avoiders bother posting on here. If you weren't you would probably put the letter in the bin and not think twice about it, not go to considerable effort to find this forum, make an account and post...

I agree that I think this approach is going to end in tears for the TOCs. It has quite a few parallels to the post office story. 1) New IT system gets introduced/becomes available 2) Revenue/prosecutions team believes that it allows them to finally clamp down on fraud 3) IT system has issues...

But that's my point. There's not going to be a second bottleneck like that one. You've got 5 lanes of traffic across both Severn bridges, then the new bypass would start (2/3 on the old M4 and 3 on the new one). Cardiff is all 3 lane and has spare capacity to absorb a lot of new traffic, you'd...

How wouldn't it solve the issue? It'd be >100% more capacity on the key bottleneck across South Wales. I am extremely doubtful you could induce 2x the current traffic flows. Would you suggest the Elizabeth line shouldn't be built because it doesn't solve all of London commuting needs "long...

Surely the priority should be some proper rail based park and ride from the M4? Cardiff "parkway" doesn't really meet that need. And on the M4 I totally agree that it desperately needs doing. Since I've moved to Cardiff it's probably the most shocking thing about infrastructure in South Wales...

I've had an EV for a few months (got a ludicrously cheap business lease). I only have access to on street parking and I'm amazed at how easy it's been. I don't think not having access to home charging is a huge problem tbh. The Tesla member rates are 30-40p/kWh which is fine, obviously more...

Suspended sentences are actually a pretty serious punishment, albeit less important when they live abroad (but I don't think the sentencing guidelines take into account their residency). Still completely lost why BTP can't arrest some of the domestic people involved. A tiny amount of people...

Isn't there "space" after reading because Liz line terminates there, and it's quad tracked until Didcot, so they could run on the relief lines until then? Or is it Didcot Oxford that's the issue?

How can they say the project is completed when Crwys road station still hasn't even had a contractor assigned (afiak)?