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It was SWR fitters who effected a temporary repair to an air leak that enabled the train to move forward.

Dorchester CC is easily viewed from trains as the railway runs along the edge of the ground on an embankment.

Further to my above post, a subsequent road on a later housing development in Hanham has been named John Chiddy Close.

A plaque with an inscription to John Chiddy can be found on Memorial Cottage in Hanham, Bristol. The building was built in 1877 for his widow and family using public subscriptions. He was struck and killed by an express train having removed a large boulder from the line near Conham knowing that...

Bradford on Avon to Milford Haven. Connected by a direct train in Regional Railways/Wales & West days.

https://www.firstmyrewards.co.uk/user/login Register on the above website. This is open to employees of First Group operated companies. You have a fixed quota of 'Family & Friends' tickets each year that you can use on the relevant train companies operated by First Group (also bus travel and...

1A98, the 19:05 Paignton to London Paddington service is scheduled to sit at Dawlish Warren to be overtaken by 2U32, the 16:50 Penzance to Cardiff Central service. This is in order to offer a connection at Exeter St Davids from stations in Cornwall and West Devon into the last service to...

I was thinking along the lines of brought down to a red while the signaller was making their regulating decision with the signal then clearing into platform one.

It is also possible that even with flashing aspects provided, the train was checked down before the route was set through platform one. If it hadn't been noticed by the driver that the route had cleared towards platform one instead of platform 3 they could accelerate to a speed as if routed...

Another announcement (which seems to be prevalent on GWR) is 'Coaches x and y will not be PLATFORMED at the next station.'

Indeed. My previous was a hypothesis as to why one individual at one depot wasn't allowed to retain traction knowledge. The wider issue as you say is the over reliance on RDW to cover.

Many thanks for the confirmation. My hypothesis can be discarded.

I am not sure your 'exactly' statement is accurate. The problem is actually the company being ill prepared for the non-renewal of the RDW agreement. If I moved TOC and they told me I had to lose route/traction knowledge then I wouldn't be 'disgusted', it would be up to me to decide whether I...

In BR days I would agree, however not in the privatised railway. Otherwise a driver in a junior link with limited traction/route knowledge for some time could just be leap-frogged by somebody new to the company who has more traction/route knowledge. The person who has been loyal to the company...

Possibly a result of the link that they will start in? Moving to a different TOC voluntarily results in a loss of seniority. If the link joined for new entrants at the new TOC doesn't have HST work then this is not surprising. Previous traction knowledge doesn't override the agreed linking...