Recent content by Tetchytyke

People who whistle.

Thanks, that would tie in with the damage being more at the back of the car. I really do hope everyone, especially the driver of the train, was ok.

Etihad Campus or Ashton-under-Lyne. There’s a lot of engineering-related closures at the minute but Bury-Etihad/Ashton is running every 10 minutes or so. A single on the tram is £1.40 and you can use contactless by touching in and out on the yellow readers at the tram stops. ETA: not sure where...

We don’t actually know why the car was on the crossing, it might be driver error, it might be mechanical, it might even be railway error. I’m just glad everyone seems to be ok.

Schrödinger’s Compensation: too small to be a financial incentive to improve performance, but too much of a financial burden to be allowed to continue.

Delay attribution is a money-go-round, always has been, always will be. The TOCs have historically always done very well out of Schedule 8 payments. It’s more of an incentive than it was before. But if it isn’t an incentive, perhaps the payments back to passengers need to be increased until it...

The last Overground buffer crash- at Enfield- was due to a driver who had taken cocaine before clocking on. He was jailed for it. Even if there isn’t criminality, it’s always better to work on the assumption that a scene needs to be preserved for evidence. If the driver hasn’t done anything...

And the railway has made a financial decision not to put in sufficient fencing to prevent them from doing so. There’s a cost/benefit analysis to it, turning the entire network into a high security prison isn’t realistic or sensible. But the railway can’t leave their back door wide open and then...

DR15 came about because 20-30 minute delays are not “mild inconveniences” when we’re talking about commuters who are paying a lot of money for 20-30 minute commutes. The political pressure was needed to make operators actually operate the service they said they would. Back in the days when I...

Sharing confidential information is a different issue. Although, given how far and how quickly the video seems to have disseminated, it can’t have been particularly confidential in the first place. If you stick something on a system which thousands of people can access, it’s going to get leaked...

The real issue with the 175s was that they were 175s. They’ve always been temperamental, to put it politely, due to Alstom’s famous build quality. I’d hope/expect the 350s to cope much better with storage. I just hope they change the 3+2 seating on them.

The public already know. That tends to happen when a train crashes into the buffers at a major London terminal. My view is that there should be more communication when these types of things happen, not less. Everybody knows that the thing has happened and if you don’t communicate then you just...

Which bit of the scheme do you think is generous? The delay thresholds at which payment is made? The percentages of the fare paid used to calculate the payment? And should this apply right up the chain? TOCs get delay payments from Network Rail for lots of things that aren’t really the fault of...

Very dangerous for Ukraine. They put their faith in a man who simply cannot be trusted.

Victoria Line southbound, cross platform interchange at Oxford Circus to the Bakerloo Line.