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Really? It was my understanding that there were no plans to use either L1 or L1 LS on the GB network. Overlay does not necessarily imply L1.

What’s the degraded mode operation on an absolute block line if the bells/block instruments are out of action? That seems like the analogous failure mode, would a 1920s signal box have fared any better?

Iceland is also part of Schengen, despite being an island much further from the continental coast. I guess they’re just a lot less afraid of brown people than the above posters in this thread.

Is not 2024 the start of CP7 rather than CP6? Network Rail's website suggests CP6 is 2019–2024, which had been previously my understanding also.

Sure, but they could be? Forgive me if I am wildly misunderstanding the situation but they must be trained eventually; now is as good a time as any, well in advance of the new timetable. It is not my impression that GTR has cash flow issues, and having all the drivers already trained and very...

It still seems odd to me that drivers are not using it to gain familiarity, since it’s there anyway.

On passing through London Bridge recently I could not help but notice an ETCS block marker within the station, as well as a number of end of cab signalling signs on the approach (and one on the curve from Blackfriars to Cannon St) which were not there before. I recall the limits of ETCS being...

It’s an overlay on fixed-block ETCS L2.

Applying Immuanel Kant's categorical imperative to split ticketing suggests it's not an issue. If everyone did it, all the time, would the outcome be undesirable? If everyone used split ticketing and took the cheapest valid fares, the powers that be would adjust the easements and fares where it...

How foreseeable future really is this foreseeable future? As in for at least the next few months or are we expecting this to be a permanent quirk of the GWML?

Hopes: there are no hopes any more Fears/Expectations: * HS2 cancelled * All future electrification schemes cancelled * All current electrification schemes cancelled * Brexit pans out badly including for the railway * ETCS rollout cancelled and plans to remove it from the Thameslink core put...

Makes sense. Thanks for looking that up!

Really? I wonder what the rationale for this was rather than using the standard ETCS functionality (Packet 68).

Is the issue not resolved now? I had heard that KVB had been installed at Ashford.

Surely that should suggest (training issues notwithstanding) putting it into use as soon as possible, for effectively free extra system testing and building up practical experience?

The last handful of times I've been through the Thameslink core (at least on trains bound for the Sutton Loop Line) they've run through on AWS, judging by the noises emanating from the cab. Most odd. Why are they not running through on ATO or at least under L2? There was a palaver about the...