Recent content by Tio Terry

They would need to consider the Stadler offerings, from my admittedly old experiences of TFW stations they suffer from many different platform heights, so something that can comply with the step free access requirements must be a front runner.

It needs to be a combined approach. Understandably, the "Combined Authority" will have aims to satisfy their Tax Payers, but this may well clash with other similar Authorities who want to run more services on a particular lines, so GBR will need to adjudicate in such circumstances - only GBR...

In the past, Border Force have ruled out any additional inland `port because the British government decided not to join Schengen. Any new proposal would need to sort out how Border Controls would be handled before anything else.

I think you are missing the regulations applicable to bare electrical conductors. What was acceptable in the past is no longer acceptable in the present.

No, not at all. There is a need to meet safety requirements. Are you saying safety requirements should be ignored?

No. That is a very sensible safety requirement.

Is there a third rail ban? I thought that the legal position in regard to protection from bare live conductors had changed in such a way that any new installations were effectively banned without an adequate safety risk assessment that showed that the risk was acceptable. That would not be...

BBC News says the heroic railworker was a "Steward".

I think it was a case of politics interfering with Engineering. Crossrail limited made it quite clear to Boris and TFL that the sensible procurement option would be trains compatible with the Siemens CBTC signalling system. At the time the decision was made to use CBTC it was being installed...

I retired over seven years ago now so haven't had any dealings with Crossrail in all that time. Back then there were ongoings discussions revolving around the fact that Crossrail Limited had bought Siemens CBTC fixed equipment but that Boris had insisted that TFL purchase the trains and bought...

In East Anglia, back in BR days, most of the AHB's and there were lots of them, often lost their Electricity Board feeds due to lightning. Of course, that wasn't an immediate problem because they had back up battery supplies. That was until they introduced the neon flashing "Another Train...

Grosvenor House in Norwich was once the Divisional Office, then the Area Office, during BR days. It's now been converted into flats.

East Coast Main Line Selby Diversion. Ipswich Bacon Factory Curve.

The Unions would not be fighting Beeching, he didn't close any railway. They would be fighting the Government. Governments, from both major parties, decided which parts of Beechings report to adopt or discard.

Not at all unusual in East Anglia in BR days. Both Keswick and Intwood crossings between Eaton Crossing and Hethersett just had block bells to tell them when trains were coming. I know it was the same for a number of crossings on the East Suffolk as well.