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The one or two recent situations I have been in (yes, it seems the prevalence of these large scale incidents has increased) in which trains have been stuck at remote station platforms following incidents, it's been quite noticeable that people just pull out their phones and dial-up an Uber...

Yes, it is very similar to Germany... except that Verbund fares in Switzerland are valid on all Long Distance trains as well (and this is the only way to make the journey the OP seeks insight on...). So there is no way of buying a fully flexible return half. You have to get one that's valid on...

Yes, not sure I see the dip referred to above but as a low embankment on/near a river, the question of the behaviour of the material in the structure and the ground beneath it may well be a contributory factor ie. drying out (especially if either/both contains clay). This is the root cause of...

Has all this answered the OP's question? About 50 posts back, there was reference to some kind of ticket that covers the IDFM area plus a few zones outside it. Does this fare exist and could it be bought at a guichet at Gare du Nord?!!

You are right about the maths, but NR has generally to date largely been driven by other objectives that their Boards are put up to by the S&T function ... such as 'eliminating legacy signals by 20xx' or 'getting y ROCs in place by 20zz'. In particular, their processes are not very good at...

Original article is the usual. Not enough has happened to say anything about what track GBR etc is on! All the debate here will probably be overtaken in the Autumn by HMG thinking about what it's pitch on rail is going to be when it goes to the country (Spring 2029?), ie. what resources it...

Surely having a train on the mainline without GSM-R operational is a safety case violation, even if the system is being rebooted. Similarly without rear marker lights, albeit there is a workaround here with manually positioned lamps it seems?

Has anyone yet said anything about the fares structures on the two routes to Southend? Whatever 'logic' might suggest, unifying them would mean either one route having a cut, the other an increase or some combination thereafter. A fair amount of political criticism inevitable, unless everyone...

The 'Plus' on the ex-Thalys services of course offers no food and I always assumed that this is where Eurostar-blue was going. The salami-slicing tactics on portions/items in their Plus offer seem really odd as they maintain a considerable crew size to serve this (seems to be about 3-4) across...

Surely one would first expect a tech to examine to see if train can be restarted, especially if they are that close? Pushing/dragging failed train is not always a straightforward operation! That said, if aircon is off, one would hope that the train would get priority for recovery/detrainment...

Most of Europe is a 7-day railway with lower frequencies to/from commuter cities. GB and NL specialise in 'weekend engineering work' but, as others have noted, DB doesn't. Generally, there are blockades or (exceptionally) use of single line working as almost all the set up is BiDi. As per...

The phrase 'comparable conditions' in the Passenger Rights Regulations is intended to be read as 'class of travel', so it's only economy seats that they need to provide. However, it has sometimes known that they will upgrade in such situations so, yes, try calling them and see. Travel with...

ES are not altogether totally brilliant at dealing with the Passenger Rights Regulation but the understanding has always been that you are entitled to rail travel, rather than air travel. And it is also their policy to offer new reservations sometimes many days after the original after the...

Clearly it is not! The operators can attempt to reduce demand by asking passengers nicely to change their booked travel but, otherwise, must attempt to transport them.

Former nuclear safety analyst here. Read up on Poisson distributions, which often used to be taught through case studies of the number of Prussian soldiers injured by sudden horse kicks and Bayesian statistics which really attempts to answer the question you are asking. Very rare events...

Wasn't the need for the escalators at Abbey Wood to operate outdoors have been noticed when the spec for building and maintaining them was drawn up?!! Of course, a higher spec is needed. Particularly here, as the height difference is quite significant thus making it much more of a problem when...

Sure, but this feel like aother one of TfL's 'shoot first, ask questions later' approach to getting charges put on cards. This may explain why my US relations ended up paying so much on their Apple last summer so will look at the full article with great interest!

As well as what ORR allows NR to spend, it also get direct grants from HMG to cover enhancement spend (ie. largely TRU at present). Possibly of the order of £1.25-1.5bn/year at present across all programes, ie. another £25m or so a week. And its interest bill (on top of this is also...

On the whole, people aren't travelling to eat. There are land-based restaurants for that! But it would be great if Eurostar could find a way to keep the seats in 'Plus' clean, especially the beige coloured ones which do seem to show the various stains that build up in service to perfection...

Thanks, but did the C345s actually freeze (a la the C700s during that notorious fault in 2019)? Could not a subfleet of them been organised to maintain the Reading all stations service? The special stop order info is helpful. However, there was no mention of these at Reading Station at c.1800...