Recent content by takno

I think you might have picked up some of the commentary around the Cross Country control centre and run a bit far with it. A TOC control centre is very broadly speaking a load of desks with computers and a decent connection to the internet. Providing a disaster recovery solution for that isn't...

Works well for everybody. You will definitely be able to fit it in the overheads, the gate staff find it much easier to check that people's bags are within the right size limit, and once they start letting underseat-only passengers on they know it's safe to fill any empty locker space rather...

My recollection of it is that at the very start they all had seats allocated at check-in, because they were basically normal airlines with normal airline systems, albeit that they may have charged for hold luggage from day 1. The thing with boarding groups and free seating turned up a fair bit...

I was recently allocated a middle seat between people who'd clearly pulled the window-and-aisle trick, and they didn't offer to switch which was a bit irritating. As you say though, it's a couple of hours and I can live with the very occasional middle seat for the saving on not booking one. In...

It's possible Northern have just put it on their default staff phone setup, in which case the dispatcher wouldn't know. I think the only thing they aren't willing to do is pay me tbh.

That's really interesting, thanks for sharing it. Traksy is web-based so it isn't in either of the app stores, but if you visit the site in Chrome/Safari it can be installed to the phone's home screen so that it acts just like an app. If you use the new (subscription-only) version you can also...

Different people are irritated by different things. The diesel goods line near my house never bothers me at all for example, but I do sometimes choose modes of travel other than rail to avoid seeing it saying it or having it sorted. If that particular announcement was being broadcast into my...

fagioli.com redirects for me. Coffrage&Quipage was dissolved. It's possible that whoever inherited the assets decided not to buy the brand out of the mess for some reason. It's equally possible that they just don't have a good relationship (or possibly any contact with) whoever was hosting the...

Tom mentioned that it shows the timetabled platform rather than the one the signaller/control have decided on. The signalled routes should be more useful, although of course only if they're correct.

The route information is there, but as Tom notes the whole thing is a bit painful to work out. In some cases there are 3 or 4 separate possible routes across different points from the last signal to the platform, each of which has its own bit in the data. There are also a couple of routes which...

As far as I can tell it's more stories which date from before the conviction and tightening up of policies last year. It's an awful domestic violence story, but as well as being old it's one where the hotel would have had to have onsite security guards to prevent the door being kicked down. It's...

Ahh, that makes more sense. I'm not sure how much difference it would make tbh, but I'm completely uninformed about the local road traffic

The whole point is that Loganair are running some weird unaffordable nothing service, completely at odds with what FlyBr were doing on their successful routes. If Loganair are struggling then it's not entirely a surprise

I'm not sure the fares were the issue so much as the attempt to run a lot of routes which were never going to make sense. Whilst they went bust before COVID and would clearly never have made it through COVID, I do wonder how they'd do now, with the large rise in domestic holidays and leisure...

Afaik Reigate is a shortish platform, meaning that the half hourly Purley-Redhill service also has to be short. It has significant commuter traffic heading into London, and a large chunk of local traffic for the sixth form college. Not sure what, if anything, Gatwick has to do with it. FWIW I...