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    No Trains on Boxing Day

    Wait until you see that the profit-making model would do to the rail services across Britain then
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    No Trains on Boxing Day

    No - it will bring industrial relations chaos to the railway and in any event the infrastructure to run DOO is not in place for non-DOO services (and that includes on the rolling stock)
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    Opentrain times/Signal maps technically question.

    CCF (and its replacement TMV) will get design updates to match infrastructure and signalling changes as part of projects and will be commissioned in line with the commissioning dates of those projects
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    Signalling System

    Essentially NX panels and the design of them are becoming obsolete if not already
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    No Trains on Boxing Day

    You are correct that there are 9 identified public holidays in Scotland, employers are allowed to use statutory days off as that public holiday. The statutory number of days off is 28 days in the UK which means 9 of them can be allocated to public holidays and 19 of them can be allocated as...
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    No Trains on Boxing Day

    No, same number just different days
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    Nationwide signal issue reported on 6th December

    GSM-R is made up of a number of sub-systems and if the main problem was affecting registrations then it is likely to be the Fixed Terminal System (FTS) part of GSM-R that went down. The FTS aggregates the TD information and routes calls from the trainborne mobile to the correct signaller Dicora
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    Nationwide signal issue reported on 6th December

    ETCS is reliant on GSM-R to communicate movement authorities to the train
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    Well no Passengers who cannot travel earlier are getting refunds, passengers who can travel will be getting the best chance of getting to their destination safely. As for staff, CS clearly have that in hand otherwise they would not have announced the change to the public.
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    In what way?
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    Damage to my Motorhome

    I am struggling to follow this Trackside communication channel = concrete troughing? concrete access point = troughing lid?
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    UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns

    I suppoorted the appo9i The issue here is not really about Dennis, it is about the abuse of power from one of the executives
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    UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns

    Hendy did the opposite of you think he did
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    British Rail "Permeant Way Notes"

    These might help https://www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/our-history/where-to-find-railway-records/ https://www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/our-history/the-network-rail-archive/
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    Are Network Rail really this poor?

    It must have been earlier in the day as I got the 18.09 Crewe to Glasgow Central service and it arrived a couple of minutes early into Glasgow
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    First ETCS train operates on the East Coast Mainline

    Which, of course, is very wise
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    "Hazardous Material" Alert at Inverness Station - 14th May 2024

    Refrigerated containers so probably the Tesco train
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    Scotrail Guards Dispute

    I have travelled in the Strathclyde area (commuting for work and leisure) for over 30 years now, all of them on DOO services and they have been perfectly safe
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    RMT turns down Network Rail Pay Offer

    Interested to know this as well, it would seem strange that the RMT is looking to scrap a bonus scheme offered to their members!

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