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A lot of foibles get 'ironed out' by simply knowing "if x happens, do y" (or "to prevent x happening, do z"), whether that's resetting a breaker, checking a particular sensor or kicking the stuck mechanism in exactly the right place... All of that knowledge is in people's heads, and very few...

Twin-track cantilevers put a lot more than twice the load on their foundations though - more weight, wind exposure and loading from the wire/pantographs but also a longer lever arm. There'd be fewer pile locations (so less need to check for and move cabling etc.) but at least as much actual...

A rare version is the MV Windoc incident in 2001, where the bridge was at fault and collided with the ship:

Some rail-over-canal bridges are very low - the one north of Stoke-on-Trent station has caught out a fair number of people with chimneys, bicycles and other general clutter on the roof. I don't think anyone bothers reporting it!

It looks to me as though there'd be space for a lift shaft north of the current platform end, 'behind' the current footbridge. The stairs would have to be moved and/or a fence erected on the platform edge to allow passengers to pass the stairs safely. It would be expensive and in my experience...

The vintage shuttle bus inside the Black Country Museum does! It sets off from next to the tram depot, does a short loop around the bottom end of the site, then stops again at the tram depot before heading up toward the main entrance.

I'm currently moored by the railway/canal bridge at Nantwich where I can see these out the window, very convenient. The direction of the sets seems pretty much 50:50 - is there a reason for this on specific diagrams or do they just get turned around at random? And if so, why/how? Other LHCS...

The Stadler units have very short carriages though. A 3-car 197 has more seats than a 4-car 756, even counting the folding ones. A 2-car 197 is roughly equivalent to a 3-car 756. Unit Fixed seats Tip-up seats Total seats 197 (2-car) 116 5 121 756 (3-car) 118 24 142 756 (4-car) 158 32...

It's used on several routes to distinguish particular service groups that need special routing or priority from 'normal' class 1/2. Once it was used for local stopping freight trains but those no longer exist.

I'm on the first southbound service through them. By coincidence it's only a minor detour from a journey I'd be making anyway. Lots of people taking photos in evidence.

The so-called 'Field of Dreams' at Redhill is well known in the canal community! Building the roundabout in the first place will have been expensive compared to a T junction - it wouldn't have been done if the simpler alternative met planning rules. Looking at it I suspect visibility on the...

As of 24h later it hasn't, will keep an eye out in case it does later. I did make that point! And had the same question, hence the thread

Yesterday I bought an open return from the ticket machine at an unstaffed TfW station. The outward part was printed as normal, but the machine failed to print the return part displaying the error pictured. There was no indication of any problem until halfway through printing and my card had...

I had quite an experience with this at Acton Bridge a while ago. Last train of the day (~10pm) cancelled - NRE kept advising that a replacement bus was (pick one at random) {imminent, expected in 10 minutes, expected in half an hour} until quarter past midnight. Then when they agreed to book a...

Well, that's the entire point, they want to avoid people running it in 20 seconds because of the perceived risk of doing so. The time would be for whatever the fastest 'safe' walking pace is. Personally I think this, along with a lot of other policies on the railway and elsewhere, is nonsense...

There are van-based buses, particularly the Mellor Strata and Ilesbus i-City, operated on normal services with some fairly large operators. Transdev and Diamond each have dozens of them.

90026 outside the shed just now.

Lots of work being done on Farndale, look forward to seeing her in traffic. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/casper-river-canal-transport_farndale-grimsby-off-activity-7362936926779129856-k6Yg On a much smaller scale, a couple of friends are crewing the fuel narrowboat Halsall based in the...

I think Grand Central's 180s have visited Ilford for tyre turning, and they stable at Crofton. They're black and gold rather than blue though.

Some stations have been refurbished in a 'heritage' style with totems. Kings Lynn for example has a lot of them in Eastern Region blue from about 5 years ago. (Downham Market was repainted at the same time in full Network SouthEast style, with red platform furniture and NSE flashes on all the...