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Bit of a unusual question but wonder if someone can help my curiosity. A lot of older units and locos have their power controller on the right hand side of the desk and the brake handles on the left and thus would normally be controlled with respective hands. With the move to combined...

Can't remember where it was but I think it was found that a DMU over 5/6 carriages becomes extremely inefficient in both track access charges and fuel consumption. Not a huge penalty for some peak hour combinations and empty coaching stock moves but running all day up and down the country is a...

It's mainly for platform restrictions at Paddington. Outer curved platforms (8,10,12) are not cleared for Class 345 passenger use without SDO in operation. It helps with the ARS software to know not to route a "9" into certain platforms.

It's basically as you mention a more senior position compared to the Operational Planner (or Train Planner as it should be but I digress...) Whilst never one myself it is (or certainly was ) a "planning" team leader/lead point of contact for the appropriate team. They usually represent the teams...

Who doesn't love a bit of dreaming.... So London - Aylesbury and others concerned... - Electrified throughout - Met line cut back to Rickmansworth, new 4 track station built next to the car park and Waitrose - New link from Paddington/Old Oak to become the Chiltern branch of Crossrail - All...

Yes, I believe they are driven by Tfl drivers and route conducted by GBRF.

Full line closures should be coming to an end soon. Bar one at August Bank Holiday weekend. Next significant tfl rail closures will be several weekends of no running Liverpool Street - Stratford on Saturdays due to Pudding Mill (Eastern Portal) works. GA should be unaffected and Sundays...

Ah yes, the Aldwych with 3 different ticket entrances, escalators and 4 platforms, live running lines and an abandoned sleet loco lookalike... Pedantics aside they recreated the atmosphere of the tube brilliantly on that level, everything from switch rooms, store rooms, the looks...

Hopefully that's a sign that Hirwaun station will finally be re-opened.

There were discussions about it in several cases a few years back when planning these. Certainly using 90's and 92's on HOBC/MOBC/Tracklayer was discussed when on Northern ECML and Southern WCML (how serious though I'm not sure). Engineering trains probably have had the single most variety...

Those of us that stayed (I was lucky enough to be living between London and MK) were up against it to put it mildly, some of us coming from haulage/test train/OTM backgrounds switching (being forced) to passenger with that around the corner wasn't very helpful. Introducing a new system while a...

Slightly OT but that traction package was meant to go under a Class 180 esque body as Alstom's bid for the IEP project wasn't it?

Got it in one ;) and that's just part of the east side of the project... Shame about Chadwell Heath to Goodmayes being dropped, could be very useful in the future so hopefully it doesn't get built over etc.

Not heard anything about Chadwell Heath but would be useful come Ilford and Gidea "blockades" as well as Shenfield. The space and overgrown infrastructure still exists so could also provide a useful freight loop and extra platform through the station. If it's merged into the Crossrail budget...

Erm that requires EVERY train into the aforementioned stations to be exactly the same spec, every platform to be capable of holding 12 coaches, the running lines approaching the station to be the same speed, the station throat to have access to every platform and every platform to be on short...