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And also note that not all trains that use the GWML are equipped with the ATP systems (e.g. Elizabeth Line), nor is every track on the GWML fitted, by quite some margin!

Useful and interesting. Thank you. :)

That's a great pic - Don't think I've seen a train minus its doors before. Thanks!

Sunday early morning will likely have interested people, maybe youtubers etc for the first train. The rest of sunday will have several people coming through just to have a look. Monday there will be several people who were in some way involved in designing and/or building the station...

Great to see the APIS letter. For anyone wanting to be nerdy, APIS is "Authorisation for Placing Into Service". It's essentially an authorisation from the ORR, the ultimate owners of the yes/no decision for opening, that the project complies with interoperability legislation (law). If you want...

Looking forward to them! (They better have vol-au-vents now! you've made me want some!)

Very good! 1781215456 All the vol au vents are mine.... Nom nom nom!

There's no left luggage facilities in the permanent design but there is a bit of space for some standalone retail units or pop up shops. Whether any third party would bring in a left luggage facility is doubtful though! Looks like your hockey stick may well have to head to London. This is a...

Lol, yes, it's invite only, although it's being held in the Western forecourt so isn't 'private'. Members of the public will be able to see the speeches and the unveiling of a plaque from outside the invited guests area if they wish, but wont be able to get into the restricted area or get the...

Thanks for the article about the artwork. I'm glad it's in and I think it looks good. While I worked for the project, I was on the team that facilitated this. Getting to this point was interesting - we had several artists submit interest and high level concepts of styles and thinking (but...

Total guess, but perhaps thee screen being upside down is a simple check at the end. They are on test like that and can be verified as working etc, but on the last day before opening you go round and can quicklky verify for all screens that they have been changed back to the correct information.

Yep, unless anything has changed since I left, which I doubt, the links to buses is purely a walk to the existing bus stops on Francis Crick Avenue or the guided busway ones on the biomedical campus. Whilst we did check that things like fire engines and bin lorries would get round the small...

Whilst I feel some of these incidents take a long time to resolve and maybe we don't handle them well, I also feel that we have no idea why he did that. Perhaps he was on drugs. Perhaps he was having a mental breakdown. Perhaps he was just out to cause disruption and have a laugh. Perhaps this...

Magdalia is correct. We called it the "Exchange land", because it was parkland we were creating in exchange for the parkland we built upon. There absolutely was efforts to minimise permanent land take. Not having a road was also very deliberate - it's not designed as a station that you drive...

The official opening ceremony will be at 10:30 on the Monday. (I shall be there and have my official invitation)

Madness. Quite incredible that someone would do that.

Hi, I'm currently sat on a train in a queue behind a line closure for trespassers. The driver has said it's "not looking like a good day" and that there "is a trespasser who is refusing to move" on the tracks ahead and that the tracks are closed. Looking at OTT it shows there is a substantial...

UK road signs are weird and the two different heights are quite variable. Here's the great Matt Parker with a video explaining it all:

Yep, fully operational for electric traffic.

New 484 Isle of wight stock, possibly pre formal introduction, hence the unusual colours?