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I'd be careful in using the steel 'nationalisation' as a general comparator. Forgemasters was brought into MOD ownership in order to retain UK capability to forge nuclear reactors for submarines and in particular the continued viability of the Dreadnought class programme. Arguably more like...

I wonder if it might be more a point of an operating company; in whatever level that still exists with management contracts, being prepared to point the finger at other organisations. If he was, presumably, prepared to authorise public facing messaging blaming Hitachi then the next logical...

Honestly not the result I was expecting at all. Good news for the railway and in particular the north of England.

I don't think Nightsleeper is the issue, more probably concerned with assisting planning for sabotage by foreign state actors? (or to be honest here... Russia.) It has certainly been happening in Ukraine by Russian forces / sympathisers and the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GUR) has...

As preparatory works for the potential "Cardiff Crossrail" then it starts to make more sense. Also as a properly integrated tram option, I think, will be more appealing than a bus service for most occasional public transport users for the new arena or the Millennium Centre (WMC). Especially if...

It is a great channel but doesn't post as often as it used to, apparently more of the video editing is now done centrally (amusingly by another Dutch police officer who runs a different vlog as part of his job.) More pertinently to the rest of the thread they have a video posted of a VIP...

Personally I think the opportunity to do a full fleet replacement including the 170's being missed is probably a mistake longer term. I'd agree with something like a 7 Car Class 800 derivative to replace the Voyagers with 5 car units to replace the 170's. The advantage of having a single fleet...

I'd agree about the RAF Museum Cosford, definitely worth a visit if you are in the area. Not transport related but I can also recommend the small museum in Shrewsbury castle, very good local regimental museum with some history of the town itself. Very close to the station if anyone has a...

I feel that this is the main problem here and most likely the thing that brought about the prosecution. In some ways whether it was droplight or something else its the lack of process to action that matters e.g. what would have happened if Agility or GWR wrote a risk assessment indicating...

Whilst that may be true for other bylaws the Railway Bylaws don't say "an address at which summons may be served" or "an address which you can be contacted at" they say this: As a side note TFL Railway bylaws that cover London Overground etc. have the same as above at 22 (1).

See the Traction and Rolling Stock Thread but briefly the modification to shorter carriages from the base 26m IET design hasn't gone well and issues have arisen in testing with electrical wiring potentially needing wholesale replacement. Or in other words don't buy trains partially manufactured...

Arguably EMR get less attention because as dire as they might be currently there is a plan to do something about it (the 810's) which unfortunately has gone wrong. Will it probably still go further wrong, yes but at least some glimmer of hope exists. CrossCountry has been under capacity for...

From memory GWR pay on board catering staff a "Front Set Lead" rate when operating 5 car IETs in multiple with the guard in the rear unit. There were problems back in the beginning of IET introduction with units being locked out due to this not happening, I remember threads about it on the forum...

I can't see Butetown happening until the May 2026 timetable change personally. It can't work until the branch has gone to line of sight operation and I don't see the training on the 398's being done by December. A small point on the dwell time for the Flirts; I would suspect that a door going...

To potentially narrow the criticism of the post you quoted down a bit (with my comments in italics.) Do you think Northern, any other TOC involved or Network Rail who run Leeds station should have closed the station? Personally I believe that it was probably a sensible decision for the reasons...