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Who said anything about Virgin? Hull Trains are far from the only operator running between Selby and Doncaster. Both Northern and LNER operate over this section of line. In fact that is an interesting point. We always hear about the costs of withdrawing services over a section of track, but...

Of course if you wanted to be an MP pushing in the same direction as the government (and hence have a chance of success) you'd table an amendment to amend the Not Primarily Abstractive measure. When you think about it, £0.30 for every £1 income is pretty poor. If Open Access is really what it...

We'll know renationalisation is making itself felt with Department for Transport Operator makes a bit for a contract like this.

Interesting that the defence made the argument that the defendant shouldn't have been put on the train by the police.

The IBUs you're looking for are: West Midlands Railway Chiltern Railways NR's Central Route London North Western Railway Avanti West Coast NR's West Coast South route Not sure what Thameslink have to do with that?

Thameslink's Intergrated Business Unit will be, TSGNL and Network Rail's Sussex Route. Most if not all IBUs will have certain train services which extend onto infrastructure managed by a different IBU. Think of Sectorisation - there was never a ruling that Intercity didn't run onto Regional...

This is quite interesting actually - there are examples of gate boxes where examining the block indicator is the method used to determine whether it is safe to cross or not. So assuming it is relatively normal to insert another repeater block instrument into the block circuit then you could add...

I believe the programme included closure of them all, but that Copmanthorpe is still outstanding.

I suspect you may be falling into Confirmation Bias here, if the vehicle driver is at fault there will rarely be an RAIB investigation, whereas if the railway is at fault there will usually be one.

A significant factor always seemed to be the 4 car 150 workings that terminate at Knaresborough and therefore could require a change of ends on Knaresborough viaduct. That doesn't seem to be a thing anymore so perhaps that has significantly changed the outlook? The 150/1s are not exactly...

Arguably LNER's 1N00 0808 Darlington to Newcastle is an example of this, the set then goes on to work a Newcastle to Kings Cross service, and in the original timetable plan it simply came off Heaton later to work that service.

Sounds like you did actually travel but were delayed? In that case Trainpal are right because you are not entitled to a refund. You may be entitled to Delay Repay compensation, which is claimed from the operator of the train you were delayed on.

Heres another that matches it: 2R93 0712 Doncaster to Adwick, again with one intermediate stop (Bentley), 7 minutes.

Of course these kinds of incidents typically occur in high winds, so when an item is caught by the catenary wire or a dropper for instance, there can be a significant risk that when the wind speed reduces the item ceases to be caught by the wind, swings down and does impact the contact wire.

Just someone being London (Overground) centric.

Given the nature of the service and its calling patterns its not that unusual to find Lumo services running early. Holding an on time train calling at Darlington for a non stop train running early, which then delays the train calling at the station which was otherwise on time starts to get a bit...

Safety Critical is defined in The Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006 which gives the following definition of Safety Critical (and then defines Safety Critical Work as doing these things. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/599/part/4

On a slightly different note, I would have thought if you wanted the station with the worst combination then Brigg must be in with a shout - first train at 11:04, last train at 13:53.

The stand out issue for me about this report is the fact it adds to a long list of reports regarding similar incidents involving LUL and TfL. While explanations can always be found for specific cases, the sheer number of these compared to the mainline railway gives a strong indication that there...

I suppose if you really wanted to resolve that risk it would be time for a full recast of the timetable...