Recent content by zwk500

Yep, primarily Bristol Uni's new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus which (not by accident) opens on the same day. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/temple-quarter-enterprise-campus/ IIRC the new entrance was within the TQEC's construction site so couldn't open until that was ready.

Which is what I posted. Agreed. Platform 1 is the Down Main (Gloucester bound) platform, a passenger train cannot depart towards Birmingham from it. Does the shunt signal (G443) have 2 routes on it? The drawings I have suggest it only reads towards Alstone CS but there's not definitive...

@railfan99, the ORR Data Portal https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/ is the original source of the passenger numbers in wiki The historic series of the station usage data is available here: https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage, it is open data so it's free to...

I expect one issue with designing any training is that there are a range of ways derailments can happen and a variety of places they can happen which would result in very different feelings in the cab. If you trained for every eventuality you'd never pass anybody out and if you trained for only...

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/authoritarian (I thought it the most appropriate dictionary to use :) ) Meaning of authoritarian in English In what way is not providing a parking space "demanding that people obey completely". And if that fits your interpretation of "refusing...

Fine, use Voi if you have to (not that I've had massively good experiences with the Voi or Bolt services I used elsewhere), just make sure there's a high number of hire bikes very obvious to people parking at the P&R, and at the stations.

NR already use drones for inspections, although I expect there's different setups for the BTP drones focusing on people and the NR ones focusing on structures and equipment.

If the road capacity is very low (say the roads are narrower than modern cars, in e.g. a medieval city centre), then it won't take much traffic to cause serious congestion. If many more people live in the city than the vehicular capacity, then it is possible for both statements to be true at the...

In order to reduce car use you need to encourage people *not to get in the car at all*. By providing parking, you are /encouraging/ car use. In most cases, the trade off is then worth it, but in the case of a fairly urban station where the bus and bicycle is already a viable option, by providing...

It's not so much a backwards attitude, but a realistic appraisal of the situation. The UK isn't very big, and has a very very busy railway. Parcels still need to get from distribution centers to front doors anyway, so the rail leg is competing against trunk distribution legs. However, compare...

If it was disconnected it'd normally have 'OOU-' or (RT)'3178' or similar, for something properly taken out of use. 'FAIL' suggests to me just that - a Track Circuit, Axle Counter or Points failure, in this case quite possibly caused or exacerbated by lack of use. A completely random guess...

Yes, especially at night, getting an infrared camera up in the air that can get a view from every angle and can scan multiple miles of lineside in less than an hour will be a big improvement. Especially for things like getting trains moving after self-evacuations.

I'm more interested in whether they will be fitting the drones with a big grippy hooky thing so that having located the trespassers, they can effect immediate (and somewhat comical) resolution of the situation :)

It's incredibly arrogant of motorists to assume they should be allowed to drive everywhere. And Authoritarian of them to demand valuable narrow street space is given up to huge SUVs instead of pedestrians. It won't fail, there'll be plenty of passengers given the employment nearby and...

Also, your alignment suggests you are demolishing the main station building.