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Definitely subscribe to braking zones, adjusting for rail conditions. Line speed on my routes is generally 80-100mph so some markers approaching stations after initial brake application are important, such as max 50mph at start of station car park at my home station. Approaching the signal on...

Yes they need a damn good thrashing!

Some of them will be around for a while longer yet, mark my words!

Not one mention of safety. It will be thrown up in the air again when the big accident that’s waiting to happen occurs.

Is there London weighting on top of basic salary at Euston? Also I know there are night turns, but what about earliest start on early turns latest finish late turns etc?

How about we make it a level playing field and force the same thing on airlines, ferry operators, bus companies and the highways agency. Just a thought

There is no audible alarm in the cab to warn if a door is open on a 321. Also there is no alarm in the cab to warn if a safety system is isolated. There is on a 315/317 though.

I always try and give a wave back to the kids waving as they wait for the train with the parents. It’s nice sometimes when you get to London and they say thanks as they walk past the cab. Recently I was pulling out of my terminus station on London and another train pulling out of another...

So when RSSB warned us as drivers not so long ago that the interlock light being lit doesn’t mean the doors are closed and in fact they could be open sufficiently to have someone’s hand in them, that wasn’t exactly true was it.....

When Shenfield was remodelled a couple of years ago we had to learn it in our own time using a briefing booklet and online computer animations.

Unemployable.

Given a passenger was arrested in possession of a 21inch machete on one of our trains recently, you can’t be too careful.

If she had forced her way into the flight deck of an airliner she would be in very very serious trouble. Undoubtedly she would be going to prison. But as it’s a train cab it’s all ok... Given the current terror threat is ‘severe’ and the never ending ‘if you see something that doesn’t look...

Transport minister left fuming as train departs on time

Clacton to London is 90 minutes ish. Pretty much like coming from Stowmarket or Diss and that’s 321’s and 360’s. London to Norwich end to end has to be one of the shortest ‘intercity routes’ and really now we are talking about Norwich in 90 it’s perhaps time to consider it outer suburban and the...

Nothing wrong of course with the city worker liquid lunch, 5 pints and a bottle of wine. Then back to the office to make investment decisions on our pension fund.

One of benefits of NiN is you can now get to Braintree in 77 minutes in the evening peak To put that in perspective about the same time HS2 proposes London to Manchester.

Once on departing one end of a branch line conductor called me up and said just as doors had closed a handsome ginger cat had jumped onboard. Conductor picked him up and put him in the back cab and the moggy was conveyed back to his home station on the return trip.

What platform at Witham does 1A94 use now? 3 or 4. Does 1Y34 now go into 1 at Colchester vice 2? I expect there will be some fairly terse ‘please explains’ coming out this morning for the delays.

James May. ‘Oh c**k. There’s a points failure ahead of us....’ Cybil Fawlty from Fawlty towers in the condescending, not amused tone of voice she always spoke to Basil in. ‘This is stratford so if you want the central line I suggest you change here. And do hurry up’ The Phantom Raspberry...