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Not being ticket staff I'm not sure what the actual rule is, but I'm guessing one of the named cardholders should be present when purchasing tickets with a railcard. Otherwise anyone could buy a ticket with any random railcard, leading to misuse. When tickets checks are taking place at Kings...

A Mk4 Mallard with WiFi. Failing that a well maintained Mk2F. The Virgin ones were a bit ropey by the time they were withdrawn, someone had obviously thought that not looking after them would make the Voyagers look better...

In this particular case the booking clerk would have been correct. For all he knew you could have been on your own trying to buy a cheap ticket. Admittedly he could have done you a favour and bent the rules, you would probably have been checked on the train anyway, but that would have been at...

I wouldn't have minded so much if he'd accepted my explanation or he'd spotted a genuine problem. But it was his blind ignorance that he was right so I must have been wrong that pissed me off. I'd like to think that I was competent at my own job! Generally I don't mind talking to people...

What a cheek! :shock: I tend to go for the more traditional approach of using a toilet ;)

Maybe it's just me, but why do a lot of trainspotters think they no more about the railways than the staff do? This morning I was preparing a 91 for departure from the Cross (1D27 to Leeds). As I was on the platform checking the front lights some kid complete with notebook and holdall in his...

:? Well all I can say is that it's definitely not me... :lol:

That only works if the binary numbers are representing a set of ASCII characters. My memory is a bit hazy (there's not much need for a knowledge of binary while driving trains :lol:) so I stand to be corrected, but shouldn't the bit stream also contain parity and checksum bits?

I may have over reacted slightly with my last post. I'd came here from reading "they got what they deserved" comments elsewhere. Comments like these annoy me just as much as ones blaming the railway. This was an accident and in my opinion doesn't warrant such comments. Those two girls made a...

The BBC report also states that the train they were trying to catch had already stopped in the opposite platform. Perhaps they thought that the red light and warning sounds were for that train and didn't think to check the other line. A naive decision to make, but hardly one that warrants...

Sympathies to the driver and the families of the victims. Wonder how long it'll take Bob Crow to jump on the band wagon? :roll:

I can think of a few. The most recent of which involved the "enthusiast" receiving concussion and a broken arm after being hit by another train (he escaped quite lightly). At the next station the train was met by paramedics with a body bag because the driver of the other train thought he'd...

Correct. Unfortunately I'm not one of them though ;)

Cotswold Rail's 47813 with 5Z53 Longtown to Wembley. I'm guessing it was this train unless there was two stock movements via the S&C today.

I'm not familiar with the layout at Longbridge. But in the situation you've described the signal protecting the crossover would be approach controlled, i.e. it would stay at danger until the approaching train had slowed sufficiently. The driver should know the location of the signals and would...

That sounds like quite a serious incident, hardly a laughing matter :roll: I think it'd be best to wait for the full details before jumping to any conclusions. If the driver just forgetting to stop is true though, I'll just be glad it wasn't me...

I don't know as I don't sign the route beyond Leeds, but it could be an issue with the platforms. The platform lengths beyond Leeds (maybe too short) and IIRC the Skipton platform at Shipley is quite tightly curved?

It's not just as case of "knowing the route", there are also a number of other factors to consider; for example the current speed, train length/weight, brake type and the weather all affect a drivers ability to stop their train accurately. Landmarks are still useful as a reference point for...

The windows on the DVT (and cab) doors still open on the Mallard sets.

Yeah, I'm based at Bounds Green and go up to York/Leeds.