Recent content by Roy Badami

I can see no mention of disruption on the National Rail or Avanti websites - are things back to normal already, then - at least as far as passenger trains?

So, to summarise. This summer, they'll be publishing four documents. This autumn, they'll publish another four. Next spring, they'll publish four more. And next autumn, yet one more. So this is just a timetable for publishing policy documents. However, one of the policy documents due to be...

I think that's overstating it a bit. There's certainly been some political grandstanding over the situation, based on either a misunderstanding or a deliberate misrepresention of its status as an "England and Wales" rail project. The fact is that (AIUI) rail infrastructure is not a devolved...

There's serious disruption on the Northern City Line, which is unsurprising given ETCS relies on GSM-R. I'm curious, though - what happens on the Northern City Line when ETCS is unavailable? Can they use conventional signalling (like on the Thameslink core) or some other form of degraded...

I stand corrected. Looking at the list, more MVNOs support it than I had realised. It still looks to be the case that the majority of MVNOs do not provide access to TfL Wi-Fi, although there's a substantially larger minority than I'd realised that do. The figures are heavily skewed by the...

Yes, few, if any, MVNOs offer TfL Wi-Fi access, but all the primary mobile networks currently do (although in the past Vodafone briefly didn't).

There's a good article on Ian Visits about the technology. Even though visible progress has been slow, it sounds like lots of infrastructure has been built out behind the scenes. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-london-finally-cracked-mobile-phone-coverage-on-the-underground-86784/

I used the Victoria line between Kings Cross and Euston this afternoon. Still no Vodafone coverage, despite the fact that this stretch has been shown on the TfL maps - and served by the other three operators - for the best part of a year. EDIT TO ADD: On the other hand, the new Piccadilly line...

Exactly! If I want to travel outwards by one route and back by another then, where appropriate, I should surely be offered the appropriate return ticket together with an excess, right at the point of sale - be that booking office or web site.

I'd been thinking about route excesses (and the lack of availability thereof) and had been wanted to ask a question about it here for a little while - so this seems a good opportunity. Case in point of an actual journey that I've made I think twice, although many years ago. Off-Peak Return (or...

IIRC, the process is, or at least a was a couple of years ago, that you first register for an online Railcard account in your own name, then you select the option to buy a Railcard for someone else, and the site prompts you for the details of the holder in whose name you wish the Railcard to be...

Well, it appears that (at least some of) the new questions have been 'dropped'. There's an article in the Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/eurostar-eu-entry-exit-questions-london-paris-b2845969.html The article is a bit ambiguous as to whether all the...

It seems to me that there are, as others have said, two different things here. In the legal/regulatory sense, a guard is a specific role, with specific duties, as per the rule book. However, what job title a particular company chooses to give their guards is entirely up to them (as is what...

There was a similar exercise at Southeastern, and the South Eastern Railway name is showing no signs of becoming customer-facing, so I don't really expect the Anglia Railway name to be any different in that respect. They're clearly assembling the building blocks of GBR, but there would be...

Sure. I was talking about the situation of staying with family or friends, where it appears that an attestation d'accueil is required - and there doesn't appear to be a way round it. (Some articles have said that demonstrating sufficient funds is an alternative, but I don't think this is...