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There were sidings at Nunnery and a DMU depot at Darnall in the not too distant past.. Brightside has plenty of railway owned space, but I'd prefer that to be used to make 4-track again - with turnouts to the Barnsley branch nearer Sheffield, higher speed, and thereby reduce occupancy of the...

If we were ranking problems to solve by the impact they're having.. I think it's this: 1. North end platform availability 2. South end platform availability 3. North end number of tracks at throat and approach. 4. South end number of tracks at throat and approach. Why (1) then (2)...

Exactly - "dishonest rail company saves taxpayers millions of pounds on taxi fares" (or, "This one trick the rail operators don't want you to know" if we're being modern) .. but even under a nationalized passenger rail system, isn't that still going to be the case - at least for those freight...

It certainly reads as such - knocking up fake rosters is hardly inadvertent. The driver knows he's not driving, and the manager knows he's not, and that manager is in essence leading this. Alternative headline if this weren't happening: "railway companies ferry drivers around in taxis due to...

In this case, it currently syphons it from a government pocket to a government pocket (the article does say DRS is govt owned later). Historically it would have been from private enterprise's pockets - ie. TOCs with franchises with revenue risk, but that kind of TOC doesn't exist today.

This is an extract, it does seem to be rather the company (owned in this case by the government), not the drivers themselves who got _no_ benefit from this

well.. I stand corrected, already... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/05/burnham-faces-far-left-revolt-over-rail-plans/ Obviously, we'll see if the government want to whip this early after the rebirth.

''buffer counters'' - what are they??

I think _this_ is that thread :( The countdown isn't moving until it is resolved.

I don't think they will get far with that! What on earth is the gripe here..

Doh. Of course there are, ... in which case, that's quite the leverage.

but _who_ could? If ASLEF accept the situation (ballot of Chiltern only ..) Who works for Chiltern and is also a member of RMT? eg. Scotrail guards won't go on strike because of Chiltern ... probably not legal! Cleaning? Maintenance? What is subcontracted out already? Other staff who...

Yes, they no longer make Rovers. Far less likely to break down.. But seriously, the trains are now fully enclosed, so no-one can lob things at them and damage the goods.

Per https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/3823/littlemore-neighbourhood-plan-as-modified nothing of any detail there.. 400m south and 350m north are a foot tunnel and a road bridge respectively. By the time they've built a bridge and ramp to it, it might as well be diverted to the foot...

.. and the BBC yesterday published an article that could have been written anytime in the last 18 months, saying nothing was happening.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9dzmdvy1ro .. so it's "significant progress" now, whereas before things were "happening at pace". That's all...

And XC has the advantage of near exclusive access to platform 6 southbound so can at least get into the station once that stopper is cleared. However, if you're on such a local stopper, the nemesis is the lack of platforms northbound - so you end up waiting in the cuttings for another service...

Huddersfield - Sheffield usually has a 7 minute WTT turnaround, which is close to insanity for a line with three single track sections and an hourly service.. a recipe for propagating delays throughout the day.. only a 2-min margin with the oncoming service at Barnsley for the first section...

Contractually units usually have to be handed back in good order - surely it cannot have been so bad. Good money I'm told was spent fixing up the pacers to a level contracted with leasing companies - which then went straight to scrap. Is this button on all 22x units - or just the 222? I've...

I don't think "going on strike" was in the list of potential solutions - fair play to RMT for thinking outside the box. It's genius! I can see how this works - no guards means no trains, - no trains means no failures in service - no failures in service and fewer used sets means no penalty if...

TBH, Isn't fixing a gas leak a good idea?? This isn't about combining utility work, but about fixing a newly discovered old problem.