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A man (the driver) and his grandson were killed on 17 February 2018 when their car was struck by a train at the Barns Green level crossing between Horsham and Billingshurst. The inquest concluded that the driver had weaved round the lowered half barriers...

Is there a website which simply shows up-to-date train liveries? Googling for it, all I can find are historic liveries, or lengthy discussions of how and why liveries have changed, very often with no pictures anyway.

Maybe I'm being dense, but can anyone explain to me what BT will do, physically around my house, when the changeover from analogue to digital phones "by 2025"? The BT website is too vague and hyped to make anything clear, but from the Telecoms World website for example :- It seems to me that...

Tesco are rolling out a scheme to take £120 from all Pay at the Pump customers, even if they buy less (there is a £100 limit anyway). They refund you "shortly afterwards". Their claim is to stop people driving off without paying. However, I don't get it - if they can charge you £120 if you...

If anyone is interested, I have written a critique of Elon Musk's proposal for his Hyperloop, from the viewpoint of a former railway and power station engineer. I would have hoped that the Hyperloop idea would have died a death by now, but unfortunately it is still being pursued by some...

To settle an argument, how far would a loaded eight coach train doing 125mph on level track roll freely if the traction were cut off? I'm guessing about 2 miles.

What is the justification for standing or minimum charges for mobile phone services? Unlike a land line, there can only be a tiny amount of infrastructure dedicated to each customer (a few bytes of data) and all the rest of the infrastructure (masts, computers, telecommunication hardware, admin...

It has not yet been noted here that Richard Branson's Virgin Hyperloop One, the most significant Hyperloop company, has abandoned its plans to carry passengers. Half its staff were sacked in late February...

Are double slips ever used in new trackwork? At one time they were widely used at the throats of goods yards as the start of the fan of sidings, simultaneously providing the entry to the headshunt in the opposite direction. They save space compared wiith sequential points.

On another forum (not primarily train related) someone claimed the London Underground was dangerous because the trains carried lithium batteries (with their reputation for bursting into flames for no particualr reason). When I worked for LU the train batteries for emergency lighting and control...

I've been reading the Island Line Upgrade thread (re : the Isle of Wight line) in the Infrastructure forum, and a remark was made that it has been quite easy to convert ex-LU stock from fourth to third rail electrification : just a matter of removing the centre shoes and re-routing some power...

The media are underwhelmed, describing it as just Tesla cars used as taxis, being manually driven slowly in a small tunnel, which is exactly what it is. cnet for example

I was wondering how many turnback loops there are in the UK. The only ones I know of are on the LU at Kennington, the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch at Dungeness, and at one end of the Scarborough miniature North Bay Railway (keeping to public railways). There was one at White City when it was the...

There has been a reference to this old thread about the Woodhead Tunnel having a signal box within it to divide it into sections : https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/worst-job-in-history-woodhead.48451/ That thread is closed now, but I wonder about steam trains being stopped by signals...

In the toy section of a folk museum I noticed, in a glass case of model trains and cars, an OO scale carriage in green and cream livery, the green (a mid shade) being on the lower bodyside. The model looked authentic, and the style was of a main line carriage of the 1930-1960 period. What...

In another (non-railway) forum someone made the comment that some A4s would run in service in later years without the streamlined casing. I have never heard of this happening. Of course he may have been confusing it with the LMS Coronation class, or the SR Merchant Navy class. Does anyone know...

Does anyone know what has happened with the cartmetro website? I often refer to it for its detailed map of London's railways, and have bookmarked it. But two days ago my browser (FF ver 68.3) came up with a full red-screen warning that the site contains malware. I clicked through the...

Looking at the Carto.Metro map of London's railways ... http://carto.metro.free.fr/cartes/metro-tram-london/index.php ... I am wondering what the reasoning is behind the location of turn-back sidings on the Underground. Some are at more significant stations like just south of Victoria, facing...

This might be a tall order. I have been sorting through old photos of my father's, and found this. Does anyone know where it was? I suspect it might be Thorpeness Halt on the GE Aldeburgh Branch, as my parents did holiday around there once or twice. I guess those coach bodies might have been...

Microsoft is arm-twisting new Windows 10 users into signing up for a Microsoft Account, by making it hard to set up a local one. From : https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-wants-to-do-away-with-windows-10-local-accounts/ It is still possible to set up a local account...