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Tunneling through sand may not be easy compared to the tunneling involved for Crossrail or the London Underground, but isn't it more a case of the tunneling methodology being used? I'm not a civil engineer, but wouldn't driving a tunnel through sand be more along the lines of excavation rather...

I'm not saying that this is the case - but I'm thinking that not having auto-correct would be a consideration for operational comms. It does put the onus on the person entering the information to get the correct information across, but it reduces the risk of having the meaning being changed...

I know that the financing around rail franchises is a bit odd, but what you're describing here doesn't seem to make any sense at all. What appears to being described above is the franchise reducing it's turnover so that the ratio of turnover to costs is 3% - i.e. costs are 97% of turnover...

Metroline Travel Ltd v Stoute link was closely followed by Dawson v Qdos Training link 2. In short, in the first case, the Employment Tribunal ruled that Stoute's type 2 diabetes was a disability, but Metroline successfully appealed. In the second case, the Employment Tribunal ruled that...

... or even "Operational Incident" :wink:

Two regulars nowadays, swapping morning and afternoon shifts. Always found them helpful and friendly. Ticket office being closed in the morning is becoming the exception rather than the rule. Oh, and the station has been getting a lick of paint as well (just in case you're missing it).

Being a layman, I wasn't aware that it is was - hence "intellectual exercise". So, that part's done, just need to get the transfer of movement authorities by GSM-R sorted out... :) Something else to go wrong, need to interface it in, which is the definitive position data source? Does it...

Most of the "idiots guide to ETCS" that I've seen make no mention of GPS, but tend to refer to odometry and radar/lidar plus beacons/balises. How accurate this is to real life has to be seen. As an intellectual exercise - why add a dependency on GPS, with all the complications added by...

* in 4 out of 83 mice.

A very good point - the "Passengers don't wont to be fobbed off" argument runs up against a bit of a wall in that when most of them are getting grumpy about what they think is just wibble, wibble is all that's available. By the time that more accurate information is available most of those...

Let's put aside the "operational incident" discussions for a moment, and go back to the earlier parts of this thread, with the "I know what happened, but won't/can't tell you" comments. I have a feeling that staff shouldn't be disseminating information from the various systems - CCIL, Control...

If announcements of "Something has gone wrong" and "We don't know..." were made, it would just lead to accusations on incompetence.

Actually - that might kill two birds with one stone. Flatten Bourne End station and the industrial estate on the north side of Boston Drive, have a steep rise in track level after coming over the river bridge, and rebuild the station on the bridge crossing Station road (a la Blackfriars, but...

From what's been quoted in other threads, on the GWML electrification the AT feeds are positioned so that, in the case of them falling, they would earth out on the structures. On the LGV OLE, the AT feed may end up on the ground, or waving around in the wind.

I'm thinking that it wouldn't be too far from the truth that the list of Government projects that didn't go wildly over budget would be very short.

£0.5 million per year of savings? That could easily be swallowed up by the increased requirement for lemon-soaked paper napkins.

If you hadn't noticed, what I wrote was a summary of some of the extensive commentary provided on this and other threads (admittedly from the pro-HS2 viewpoint). I don't claim any authority on the subject. It's expensive to build a railway line from scratch. However, when you're building...

Greasers?

You skipped over a key word in there.

Let's see: Not really setting up for reasoned debate here. You missed out "white elephant", "boondoggle", and "waste of taxpayer's money". In brief: It's quicker to build new It's less disruptive to the existing to build from new If you're building new, the extra cost to make...