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It also means a train traverses it each week so they can check the route is good to use. It allows a crew to see if there’s any over growing foliage, dodgy rails etc. so if there’s a closure and they suddenly need to send multiple trains down there a day, they know the route is ready for it.

No, I agree with that. I hate it when I just miss Page 1 and it rolls through ‘this weather is hot, bring a bottle..’ blah blah, just tell me what platform I’m going too! Just leave one the next departures, I.e. those on Page 1. However, I don’t see why you couldn’t have BSL on the permanent...

I’ve not seen that. Though I do take your point about departure boards displaying pointless messages. Frequently I watch as Page 1 of 2, rolls on to Page 2 of 2 (I kinda accept that) then a message about hot weather. However that’s (in my experience) always a dot matrix and not the BSL one.

Why get bothered by something that doesn’t impact your journey but aided someone else’s? I’ve never needed a wheelchair ramp but I’m glad they exist. It helps people. There’s your justification.

Just another day on the railway. Things happen and have to be handled as and when they do. Unfortunately, things can happen all at once. Many of these things are no one persons fault but a combination of things such as weather and, ultimately, bad luck. Southern will get it sorted.

Route brief packs have all that info. So if you’re asking for route learning purposes, your DI will provide you with all that. If you’re just an enthusiast wishing to learn, not sure you’d be able to get your hands on that stuff.

As someone who commuted through Twickenham for quite a few years, it’s fine since the rebuild, until it’s an event on. Then it’s rammed.

No more so than any other TOC.

No. For the cost of arranging it/getting the approval, then doing the driver training plus the cost of somehow moving them to the opposite operations. Nah.

Don’t really get what’s wrong here? Not sure what I’m missing. If you’re on a northbound TL then ‘other National Rail services’ could include services to the East Grinstead, Uckfield, Tattenham Corner or Caterham branches. Or maybe onto the London Bridge via Tulse Hill service. Seems a...

The 171’s show the driver the fuel gauge. By extension I would assume that means most/all Turbostar variants do too.

Could be either at this time. It’s impossible to say. Both are plausible but so are many other things.

It could be the plan. But chances are other trains are right behind you meaning they’ll have to be sorted first.

I’ve worked services that have been changed on the fly and run nonstop from Three Bridges to Barnham via Hove due to something going wrong on the Arun Valley. It’s often done non-stop. It does also mean that if the closure didn’t take place for whatever reason then it can revert back easily.

There are people that sign both 377’s and 700’s, but all the ones I know of are of the trainer/instructor grade and so using them to help in times like this is easier said then done. I’d be very surprised to know 700’s have gone down via Epsom and Dorking with drivers that have recently ‘gone...