-
Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!
SynthD's latest activity
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Evacuation policy during major incidents.The hike is the self evacuation. As there are only one or two staff members on the train, how can staff be involved with those who leave?
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Hounslow mainline to Heathrow line.Why specifically from Hounslow, rather than Feltham? It’s twice the distance, with no viable worksite, no fast trains from Waterloo. Add...
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Cambridge South : no parking (and local CCTV is dissuade anyone from stopping near by...).It's a bit like the terminating tube stations. There is someone's genuinely nearest station, and there is a nearby preferred station...
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Cambridge South : no parking (and local CCTV is dissuade anyone from stopping near by...).It has 1000 bike spaces inside, and the busway, about 8 road bus routes, and several nationally significant employers within walking...
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Potential solutions for earth shifting after dry weather?.Jump straight to this plan. Are land anchors a relevant temporary measure before building a more technically planned embankment?
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Why doesn't Ripon have a train line towards Harrogate or York?.It had the Leeds to Northallerton line until Beeching. For a proposed reopening, look for anything built on the line, and the reports...
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Track out of Cannon Street towards Charing Cross/Blackfriars.It's called Metropolitan Junction or Metropolitan Reversible, and it's now rusty and not in any passenger service. It had a lot of use...
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Electric wheelchair tie-downs. Should the UK adopt them?.No, the UK often uses a special seat that the wheelchair is backed into. In minivans and personal adapted vehicles this system of straps...
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Climate adaptation challenges facing a railway built for a very different world?.To know how that counts as a proportionate response, what temperature do you have in mind, and how wide an area is closed for one...
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Could train toilet tanks be made to overspill onto the track when full?.How near can a track worker be to a passing train at 125mph? Probably no nearer than I can be at Reading station. The 701's bioreactor...
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Saturdays and Sundays should be inside the working week for drivers at all TOCs (not just some as at present).Are there drivers who have graduated recently enough to have large loans, rose to a level where they have a salary reaching the...
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Saturdays and Sundays should be inside the working week for drivers at all TOCs (not just some as at present).It sounds like the workers wanted a pay rise, the union won them a pay rise, this was repeated many times to their satisfaction, and now...
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Caledonian Sleeper to mainland Europe?.Measuring that for other domestic routes would be very useful for this forum. But for this international route, is that sort of analysis...
-
SSynthD replied to the thread Reopenings - the positive narrative the railway industry needs !.That’s a highly unusual urban journey, as just over half of it is on a motorway. You’d see a similar situation with getting to Heathrow...
-
SSynthD replied to the thread A Braintree to Sudbury railway.A circle of 8km centred on Halstead has 33k people. Adding 10x that is not viable, for fresh water supplies among many other reasons.