Recent content by sheeldz

That's a good set of the longer distance suburban and Ayrshire/Renfrewshire routes. Selfishly, disappointed that the Catchcart lines aren't open, but that makes sense considering the coverage for other transport options, namely the buses and the bikes (which I used yesterday). I will say that...

Partial re-opening of the high level platforms announced. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqgx5kpzxko

Interstingly, the Rail Safey Group do look into platform and surrounding safety of passengers, and the risks to other traffic, from rail disruption. I'ts part of their modelling for risk and the various consequences of such actions, like extra passengers on platforms during disruptions, and how...

Thanks. I guess over to Edinburgh and down the ECML to somewhere across. To the maps!

Heading south today on the 1pm-ish direct GLC to BHM. Best choice is to sack the WCML and head via Edinburgh, South and then head across, on the LNER? Surely the AWC trains from Waverly also head directly to the Preston.

This is a human factors issue in this case, because the brain works heavily on what is expected, and in this case the "correct" action was being undertaken - sanding was applied - but the wrong result was observed. What would have happened in all likelihood is the thought process of "I pressed...

I think the goal is always to be "step free" and the two step free access routes are valid, in that respect. I actually drove past this bridge coming up the M6/M74 a few weeks ago - was clearly that Clarkston one, because it had no lifts!

There was a pesedtrian death there last year, so I wondered if the council decided to modify the refuge island during the parapet works. I think that the buses can still make the corner well, and the single lane going onto the Toll is a better layout... if they change the lane markings on the...

The traffic going through Eaglesham has been quite astonishing, really puts into focus the strength of the developments in Jackton and the good that the A726 bypass on the GSO did when it opened.

I know that this will have been engineered and thought about, but the OHLE poles at Clarkston seem to be sitting a lot higher than they will once the track bed is lowered.

Is it more to do with crew changes there than anything else?

Announcements at Central tonight specifically state that it is a lack of train crew staff.

The thing that really sticks out that you cannot really ignore is the ride quality. Almosst everyone I've spoken to who has ridden the new units has noted that, and that's them brand new, and not enthusiasts. Something will need to be done.

Going to say that dumping three to four full Pendolinos at Carlisle at 4pm and only starting to make announcements about the followup services at 6pm has not been well managed. The control choice to terminate the services here might have been guided, but as a passenger, even knowing and...

Is there an outright operational reason they keep stopping services short? A double train load going to Glasgow which had managed to leave Preston has just been dumped at Carlisle, for example.