Recent content by SN74LS123N

Well maybe, but can I take it that if there was anything *specific* I had wrong, you'd be playing the ball not the man?

It's just a turn of phrase. As for my level of experience and knowledge, well, I can only refer you to the evaluation of Mr 455driver:

Or "shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted", as we call it. For avoidance of doubt, getting third parties to mop up the mess caused by not resolving a stranded train in a timely manner does not absolve liability.

O RLY?

Absolutely agree with exile. A train without power may be what the rule book calls a "place of safety", but it isn't a safe place. In winter, the passengers are at risk of hypothermia, hypo/hyperglycaemia, etc etc. In summer, on a crush loaded train, it'll be heat exhaustion instead of...

Baildon, which has had absolutely no ticket facilities whatsoever since it reopened in 1973, is 240 scheduled seconds of travel from Shipley. Allow time for visual checks along the platform as the train accelerates, locking up the door operating panel, operating the PA and making the...

You're right, Mr Ferret, and I'll edit my preceding post to better reflect the facts. Sorry for the minor infraction.

The guard already knows perfectly well that he or she isn't selling tickets and that stations at which passengers have boarded do not have ticket issuing facilities. It should not take a knock on the door to make the guard aware of that. A PA announcement would certainly be helpful, but...

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It's worth pointing out that these new journey opportunities all save capacity at Leeds City. By avoiding the need for passengers to travel into Leeds, change trains, and travel out again, money spent on Bradford Crossrail etc would save money otherwise to be spent on the ever more difficult...