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This type of offence is known a tissue begging and illegal under the same section of the railway byelaws used against other types of begging. It's usually organised, with the 'tissue sellers' often exploited or trafficked. The Police seem far more interested in this than straight vagrancy.

Some are not even fully gated - such as smaller LO stations. However, by far the most gratuitous is Finsbury Park. The Underground entrances both have gates, but the National rail is gated at Platform level. The concourse - with the double-helix staircases down to Underground level - is not...

For the less street-wise here, he was offering to sell you drugs rather than a personal service. If the BTP aren't interested in vagrancy, they are certain to be in drug- dealing.

BTP have a much better weapon at their disposal than the Vagrancy Act - which is archaic. Section 7.2(iii) of the Railway Byelaws (TfL's equivalent identical) is far easier to prosecute - an officer witnessing the activity will probably be sufficient. The reality is that the BTP are targeting...

The service was severely hosed to Moorgate this morning - another broken down train. As I was waiting, 3 car 313 got diverted to KX - so presumably the other unit of that had already broken down.

Those will be the dirty, sagging, and generally full-by-the-time-get-on seats. If I manage to get on AT ALL. Every expense has been spared on the inside and outside of these trains for years. Witness the fact that they still have the FCC vinyl wraps on them - although some of these are white...

Nuclear flask trains and the Royal train spring to mind.

Archway has to be a good candidate.

Have these trains got PRM modifications already? The 313s on the Moorgate service certainly haven't.

This happens at Finsbury Park as well - not enough dwell time for the rolling stock used. On not a few occasions, have passengers still been getting off the train when the driver attempts to shut the doors. I can't possibly see how the dispatchers on the platform can see what's happening down...

Surprised nobody has mentioned the RMT's favourite bit of propaganda, trotted out at every opportunity, and rarely challenged by the media: Directly Operated made a huge (several £100m) profit on the East-coast route when compared to the failed National Express East Coast that preceded them...

This very much depends on how the hydrogen is produced - it's a good use for surplus renewables providing there is large amount of storage for the periods when there isn't any surplus at all. The idea is often sold on the basis of small plants consuming locally generated solar energy - although...

TfL already operate three of the stations on the south end of the line: Moorage, Old Street and Highbury & Islington, and it's highly unlikely they'd take over Finsbury Park high level.

Indeed - it seems that the name-plate efficiency of state of the art combined-cycle gas turbine plants is 61% - with efficiency measured against electrical output being lower. Given the British public's general distaste for district heating schemes (the obvious application for the waste-heat)...

Don't forget that if comparing a diesel engine to electricity generated by a gas-powered power stations, Carnot's Theorem tells us that the maximum thermal efficiency of any heat engine is about ~67% - A practical gas turbine comes in at ~60%...

The issue with a discontinuous electrification scheme where power is delivered at station stops is that a large amount of power needs delivering in a short space of time. Using the figures above of 3.5kWh / carriage-mile, and assuming 10 miles between stops, and a 4 carriage train, this...

Absolutely nothing, I suspect. Both the original entrances on Moor Place and in Electra House lead to an underground ticket hall underneath Moorgate which serves the NCL, Northern and sub-surface lines. Nothing changes this regard. the cross-rail entrance provides access primarily to the...

It's worth pointing out that an almost parallel walking route already exists - one that predated the railway by about 50 years - which is very pleasant. The Regent's Canal.

Camden Highline (https://www.camdenhighline.com) is proposing to convert disused railway tracks from Kentish Town Road to Kings Cross into a walkable nature reserve. This seems to include the disused tracks through Camden Road Stations and the derelict bridge across Camden Road. I recall...

The more I think about it, why would computer-based interlockings be in a ROC at all when they can effectively be anywhere accessible on the FTN? Tier IV commercial data centres are phenomenally robust - and systems and spacial redundancy is far more easily achieved at scale.