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They get a lot fewer paying passengers in, and these days would need a volunteer in each van as well. That said Dean Forest Railway advertise trips, typically when they have a demonstration freight out.

Agreed on both points. I'm fairly sure there already AAR sockets on the end of a 93 so no need to modify the locos, but the stock would need to be wired through.

Peak (anytime) singles are 20p less than the day return, and there are no period returns. The latter makes using Merseyrail as a feeder into an overnight trip look pretty expensive if you can't get a through ticket. Some zonal tickets are excellent value because they cover huge distances, and...

I have seen the same thing. I think the step overshoots because it fails to detect the platform edge, then has to back off to the correct place. The system freezes the doors and sounds the alarm whilst the step is moving back, which is quite alarming.

I believe that this is the case at Oakham (Rutland). Certainly not an accessible bridge and access to each platform from the street when not staffed (limited booking office hours). The road route is via the level crossing, which can complicate matters, especially with quite a few freights! I...

I read somewhere that on the TGV the difference in electricity consumption, and so cost, was massive, way more than the revenue benefit. Power to overcome air resistance goes with the cube of speed, hence a doubling of power to get from 100mph to 125mph, which I have also seen quoted. I would...

I think nearly all of the plumbing was redundant as soon as the former Merseyrail Railway locomotives were sold off for private use (surface lines at collierys) and so removed. The Mersey Railway solution was to empty the tank of hot water out and refill with cold when turning trains round...

My experience from Chester to Euston and return has been that it is more likely that the reservations never load... Luckily none of the services were that busy.

On the other hand plenty of cheap and poorly made / designed chargers go up in smoke (hopefully blowing a fuse, but do they even have one?), so a large number of chargers crammed together has fire risks of its own.

From a post by a driver on here, car carriers are 50 when empty and 75 when laden. Some workings run laden in both directions swapping models between plants, I think Toyota used to do this.

Standage canal tunnel is much deeper than normal, around 7 feet or 2.1m (according to the visitor centre), to provide additional water storage precisely because it is pretty much the whole of the summit level of the canal, with locks close each side. There shouldn't be too much silt as it was...

Is there evidence that Driver open is actually quicker in practice? It doesn't seem that way on Merseyrail, with very long waits between train coming to a stand and the doors being released.

777 051 is in platform 1 at Hooton at the moment with a tree branch impaling the leading bogie air bag. Not sure how what seems like quite a small branch got shoved there thick end first... This unit was working 2C08. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:G86504/2026-01-27/detailed

Weirdly, Facebook just decided to show me some pictures (from a group I'm not in) taken in 1974 at the London end of Gidea Park sidings, showing what are described in the comments as "EEB 33kv cables", with a recollection of patrolling them looking for oil leaks. There are at least three...

Chester platform 7 has a banner repeater half way down, needed because the curve at the Wirral end means the starter is not visible past the buildingd. Not a full signal but the layout does permit 7A and 7B to have different trains in them at the same time, e.g. from Wales through 7B to 7A, then...

Interesting. The train I am on now (2C49 which RTT shows as 777021) is showing internal maps with timings, and they are correct. Although it does announce "the next station is ...." just as the doors open at the previous station, which can be a shock if you aren't paying attention.

I thought it had changed in subtle ways recently! I would say an improvement, but I have certainly seen all of the oddities other posters have listed. For a long time Chester direction services used to miss-announce Bromborough Rake as Bromborough (the subsequent stop), much to the confusion of...

The complaint is that if you arrive at the north end of the platforms and follow the signs (which all direct you up the nearest escalator), you end up in a shopping centre when you were trying to change trains. Which way you have to go round is also far from obvious if you don't know the...

All three were of course built at the same time for the Loop project and the refurbished in the same project a few years back - after which they look more like each other than like their former selves, thanks to white panelling replacing dark brown plastic. You can add Hamilton Square platform...

True (as a passenger you have to assume it is still current, in spite of it not saying when there is nothing planned until. Which is pretty rubbish). The Merseyrail web site says the same thing at https://www.merseyrail.org/journey-planning/plan-your-journey/planned-engineering-work/