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    Pointless TOC Engineering Announcements

    So your beef is with two words?
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    Pointless TOC Engineering Announcements

    "To allow works to take place, Network Rail warned there would be disruption on Brighton Road and access to the station would be restricted at certain times. Night-time road closures will be operation every Monday to Friday, from 21:00 BST to 05:30, from 8 September to 17 October. A full...
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    Pointless TOC Engineering Announcements

    If you read further in the article then it explains the expected disruption to the public - that is the reason for the press release. The NR route director put in 'each day' in her statement that was probably not needed but overall, this is NR engaging with the local community to explain what...
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    Storm Floris disruption - 4/8/25

    Ever since British Rail days, the intercity service changed crew at Preston therefore it is Glasgow / Edinburgh based crew that does the Preston - Scotland leg of the journey. Virgin Trains and AWC kept that arrangement
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    Labour Spending Review

    One of the projects will have the records booked out from NRG for their work and the other project is meant to seek an Overlapping Design Agreement with the project that has the records which is meant to avoid situations you describe. It can only work if people do their job properly but clearly...
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    How are track circuits / signals wired together?

    In simple terms: For relay room areas - Multicore signalling cables along the track are brought into the signalling location cases dotted about. At these location cases, circuit functions are introduced, joined, passed through or terminated. The indications for a train describer and signaller...
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    Ayr-Stranraer: Glenwhilly

    This is a case of managed decline, a recent project to renew/fix the axle counter at Kilkerran was knocked back multiple times because the 'benefit did not justify the cost'
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    Should the two track railway north of Preston be fitted with bidirectional signalling?

    Apparantly, the first 4S38 rescue loco ran out of fuel and that is why it sat down near Beattock Summit!
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    Should the two track railway north of Preston be fitted with bidirectional signalling?

    Bi-directional signalling will not happen on that portion of the WCML until the interlockings are replaced as they are 1970s era geographical relay interlockings and there is little chance NR or the supply chain now has the capability of doing such design and testing work. The interlockings are...
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    4S38 has failed on Beattock Bank 29/4/2025

    The failed freight train had problems earlier at Carlisle and Beattock is notorious for failing freights so why on earth did NR route it ahead of all the cross border passenger trains
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    Network Rail 'lobbying'

    From the Lexington website https://www.lexcomm.co.uk/network-rail
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    OHLE works at Portobello

    The junction remodelling job was cancelled a few years ago. There are two live projects in the area, renewing the signalling interlocking and a new traction feeder station beside the S&T depot (in your picture). It seems very likely that the OHL works are associated with the traction feeder...
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    How do train operators monitor when and why trains are late? What systems do they use?

    CCF is being replaced by Train Movement Viewer (TMV) this year
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    Carmont inquiry to start in January

    Not sure what is to be gained with this FAI given the fact (as stated above), the RAIB has already established the facts of the accident and criminal charges were brought under H&S legislation. Is this FAI to apportion culpability at individuals?
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    Old Trafford freight relocation

    There is a whiff of public money bailing out private enterprises here (Man Utd & Freightliner)
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    Should Southeastern's Grove Park be counted as a maintenance depot?

    It is a stabling sidings / depot, driver booking on point and potentially a cleaning location (well it was when I was last there about 10 years ago)
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    Travel insurance is recommended for any holiday where you have hotels and other connecting forms of travel whether that holiday is using aircraft, trains, buses or cars
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    That is what travel insurance is for
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    It is a very good thing and we had this same discussion last time NR & CS facilitated it
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    Cambridge South new station opening

    This is the new Alstom MCS Infinity system, it was meant have integrated video feeds for the Level Crossing CCTV but that got ditched. It looks like the integrated NR screens for Trust and CCF got ditched as well (in the example above)

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