Recent content by plugwash

Probablly not as part of normal service patterns, but I could see it getting used in disruption or perhaps for stabling. IIRC the signalling was already there so may as well have the stop board to go with it.

While that is a useful approach in many cases, I don't think it works in the case of Manchester/Liverpool. 1. There are two roughtly-equal in time/distance but largely disjoint routes between manchester and liverpool. The "chat moss" route via earlstwon and the "clc" route via warrnington...

My understanding magstripe tickets have very limited data storage capacity, there is a "ticket number" but IIRC it's not big enough to uniquely identify a ticket across the whole country. Some ticket barriers will write back to a ticket to mark it as "used", this being far more common on TFL...

Are any of the trains involved marked as compulsory reservations?

Looking on google maps I think you could quite easilly slot in a couple of lifts at Levenshulme. Doing it without lifts would be rather harder.

I don't think you can read the "participating operators" section and yet ignore the actual description of the ticket (emphasis mine). I do think it's a bit crappy though that you have to go to a seperate "trams" page to find out which trams plusbus is accepted on, rather than it being...

I'm pretty sure the 9 headcode for thameslink predates ATO. I can see two advantages to using it. 1. The regular headcode system is simply not designed to accomodate the massive numbers of inter-region trains that thameslink (and crossrail) entail. AIUI the first number if a regular headcode is...

To me the obvious reason for doing what they did would be they came to believe the original transaction had a high risk of being fraudulent.

TPE operate quite a bit from 13/14 which are primerally accessed via Also the current gates at picadilly are operated by Avanti and TPE. Maybe they decided it was easier to avoid introducing a third gate operator to the mix.

There are also many cases where ticket acceptance is arranged on busses not managed by the railway, I highly doubt these are ever loaded into railway timetabling systems.

Seen that sort of thing in a few places, not just on the railway. I presume that when the screen is unable to correctly establish a network connection and talk to it's master server the it drops into a mode where it displays troubleshooting information.

3 decades ago there were a lot less lithium ion batteries around...............

Regardless of what they are doing next, eveyone enters/leaves the station via connections to the south terminal of Gatwick airport Cross-referencing different maps, it seems there are essentially 3 options for pedestrians from there. 1. Exit onto the footpaths and service roads between the...

Who sets the incomplete journey fee? I'd assumed that at-least within the zones it would be set by tfl since it's first and foremost their system.

It seems to be quite inconsistent, IIRC when I looked it up manchester to leeds was not valid via sheffield, but manchester to york was.