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I usually find it gets a better result talking to control/support desks by saying "I have X problem. I have tried Y. I would like to do Z because..." rather than "I have X problem. Help." I think it helps to show you have thought about the problem and are trying to find solutions yourself. It...

I had someone tell me they were no longer allowed to say "You may feel a little prick", and some people found "little prick" offensive So they switched to "You may feel a sharp scratch..... You big prick"

So, for all the remarks about that announcement being pointless, you saw something that did not look right, couldn't speak to a member of staff, so considered texting British Transport Police on 61016 so that they could sort it...

You can be professional and light hearted at the same time. One example I see in a different setting: "How did you get onto the floor like that? Do you remember falling?" "(Big sigh) Whatcha doing down there then?" Or "Can you tell me what happened?" "I fell" "Well, that wasn't a great...

I've been taught to leave in neutral when on flat ground, and the gearstick wiggle is part of the cockpit drill. I will admit to skipping some steps of that, like checking there's nothing behind the sun visor that could fall down, and might not do all twelve steps in the right order, but the...

Can I revisit a question I approached earlier? How long did it take the Boris bikes to change colour? I think the Barclays to Santander switch was fairly quick, but I'm not a daily visitor to London, so from my perspective it may have been a faster change. Was that sponsorship change quicker...

Tuber Eats... Full line sponsorship. I guess there's been precedent with the Emirates Cabl- wait, it's not called that now. The IFS Cloud Cable Car, is it? People got upset about the "circle to search" line... If they do renaming, it will have a lot of downsides. If the sponsorship means...

But again, the passenger is not the customer. They aren't the ones buying/leasing the train. And to preempt comments about them paying for it with their fares, they aren't the ones signing the contract

The customer requirement is to shift more people

Sorry, I did mean to say "no". Juggling too many things at once when posting again. And I'm not asking about any specific incident - just a hypothetical inspired by the other thread.

A thought prompted by the BSR thread. Driver asks if a BSR has been lifted. Told yes. Drives at line speed. Is found to have been in excess of the limit in place at the time So, here's a scenario I'm curious about... Driver is aware of a temporary limit. Driver is on the first train of the...

Not sure if this is the right place, but... I am watching a YouTube video. Every 90 seconds, the exact same SWR advert plays. Seen it before, but nothing like this much. Surprised that they are aggressively pushing old adverts at the moment Edit... Two SWR adverts. "Chickago" and "Sandy we've...

Wow! A real world example of octal in use. I thought it only existed to make JavaScript do annoying things, like parsing a user input of "010" as 8 after the initial zero in a box wasn't removed and there was no explicit "this is base 10" specified, causing a lot of confusion and frustration...

Still, won't a 9 bit number only allow up to 511?

Ok, that one might make sense. And explain why a change would be painful... If the carriage number in a unit is represented as a 2 bit number as part of a complex data type then it could only have 4. And to extend that could mean having to rejig a lot of stuff. The 80s and 90s were a great...

Aren't the other trains still sort of fixed length? Each unit isn't going to change length? So what is the difference between 2 or 3 X metre units coupled versus 1 Y metre unit not coupled? Or is this where the bodge comes in, if things HAVE to be run in multiple, and entering the B23 stock...

There's some irony or something to a "Coming soon!" message stuck to the side of a train that is "coming soon" for many years

444. And it will almost certainly hit 450 and 458. Hopefully not 701 And REALLY hopefully not 4584 or 4585

Isn't it "telescopic" because it has multiple sections sliding at different rates? Though the sections aren't contained inside each other, "telescopic" describes that multiple motion better than "sliding", which could be taken to mean a single leaf? And when trying to explain in simplest terms...

That's the one! I'm glad that my vague memory dump was good enough! I didn't think it was pump - I remember seeing the request instructions when I'd looked it up before. So, the question is whether that is unique?