Recent content by steve_brown

The shortcut from the bottom of the escalators to the central line platforms at TCR is still there, and also provides an option of transferring from the EL via the Northern Line platforms to the Central Line without going up & back down the main escalators. Don't think anyone's mentioned the...

Heidi (The Station Wagon) at Mistley, admittedly slightly off the beaten track

Sounds like a sensible route assuming they are staying in one of the hotels near Tower Hill (tube not very accessible). There's no difference in walking distance above vs below ground, so I would suggest leaving via the Lizzie Line exit (Broadgate side), as the single lift in the main LU...

On GA, the 17:30 ex LST is going to be carnage from June, with the 17:00 having the MNG call removed (also neatly severing the fast Harwich option), the 17:30 retaining the COL call and the 17:50 retimed to depart LST at 18:00. 17:30 is currently full and standing at LST by 17:20 and full to...

Seems to have zero TINs after 2 weeks, so that gives the Class 745 fleet an industry leading MTIN of ∞ ;) That should jinx it.

Thanks, I'll update my mental notes! I think a signaller told me it wasn't possible, or perhaps I misunderstood.

I might be wrong on this, not been to Liverpool Street IECC in a long while and every ARS installation is a little bit different. I concur that signaller and controller workload is easy to underestimate for those who haven't spent time in control environments, even when things are running smoothly.

...is the correct answer. ARS (Automatic Route Setting) can make a regulating decision at a converging location, but once two trains are following one another it will not intervene, and cannot intervene because Mk I ARS can't deviate from a train's booked platform. The signaller can override...

Presumably that's permitted because the top deck is actually at about railway ground level, and the lower deck is sunk and so the whole thing is invisible from a distance. I expect £10 million might be on the low side, but if I were the Sponsor I'd be looking a building a case based on...

Any solution would have to avoid impacting the AONB, so that probably precludes any sort of bridge, as this would be visible from Flatford. I believe this is the same reason a larger multi-story car park cannot be provided nor can the land to the north of the station be developed. In my view...

RWA was a few years ago now! But yes, that's me. Still dabbling in said dark arts, and have some new toys to play with now.

These are indeed the defaults to be used if more accurate data is not provided (e.g. by TOCs). Recent studies have shown that actual observed braking rates are typically in the range 2%g to 6%g, so approximately 0.2 m/s² to 0.6 m/s², and this has been noted for more recent studies. This has...

As explained above, under the TSR there cannot be any reduction in service frequencies at Manningtree, Chelmsford or Stratford, which is implied by your proposal. TSR3 gets around this by introducing a fourth stopping path as far as Ipswich and extending one stopper to Norwich.

That seems to be the service defined by TSR3, which was originally planned for May 2020. Using the same off-peak period, 17 trains from Norwich, 24 from Ipswich, 19 Manningtree, 31 Colchester, 31 Chelmsford so that would imply that 1 of the 4 tph from Ipswich would stop only at Colchester...

Yup that's correct, but the service frequencies to/from London at Chelmsford and Manningtree must remain pretty much as now, so the calling pattern of the InterCity services south of Ipswich can't change. Extending every Ipswich service to Norwich is not totally straightforward because of...