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Crosscountry don't do penalty fares. TFW do have a penalty fares scheme, but looking at the map I would guess they don't have an agrement with GWR on reciprocal penalty fares collection.

Assuming you are reffering to the tlf contract (which is about to transfer from cubic to indra) I doubt you will see a mass replacement for a few reasons. 1. The cost would be huge. 2. Replacing barriers will take time, but if indra replace the payg backend that pretty much has to happen on a...

Having a single supplier does bring some efficiencies, but the thing is the supplier *knows* it brings those efficiencies. So when you go and get a quote for your next project the supplier knows they have no real competition and can charge accordingly. The impression I get is that cubic have...

I did this a few years back for a trip to marsellie, and was unable to get any resevations on trains from London to paris at acceptable times. Fortunately, I was able to get reservations to lille and then get reservations on the TGVs from there.

Do we have any drawings of how these "angled gap fillers" are supposed to work?

There is a "standard height", but there are a few issues. 1. real-world stations can vary a fair bit from said height. Remember our railway is a patchwork of railways built by different private companies in an era when wheelchair access was far less politically important than it is today. A...

There are in general, two approaches to level boarding, "low floor" and "high platform". Heathrow express went with the "high platform" approach to deliver level boarding at Heathrow, and the Eliziebeth line continued this approach into the "core" but the high-platforms approach raises issues...

Platforms 13/14 at picadilly have never been great, but I feel they were at their best when the link bridge lounge first opened, but there were still waiting rooms on the platforms. Since then we have lost the platform-level waiting rooms, gained the stupid red lines, and the travelators seem...

I'd characterise it more as an "airport terminal for trains". * A bunch of space taken up by government imposed security and border control. * Extended walking routes due to the need to keep different types of passenger (domestic, international departure, international arrival) seperate. *...

A scott configuration gives you two supplies 90 degrees apart.

Not just "a" factor, but probably the single most important factor. The shannon-hartley theorem defines the theoretical maximum capacity of a channel based on certain assumptions, it says. C = B Log₂(S/N) In practice this forumula tends to serve as an upper-limit for channel capacity. The...

AIUI UK railway days overlap, so a day starts at midnight and ends 28 hours later at 4am.

People in the press work in london and have parents and grandparents, even if the politicians try to spin it I doubt they will be able to keep the reality from being splashed all over the papers.

Which trains are these showing up on? £16.20 is just 5p less than half the price of a super-offpeak day return, which itself is not much cheaper than an off-peak day return. So I suspect this is an orcats raid. AIUI the rules say that the TOC that sets the inter-available fare is not normally...

Not directly, in that the body that controls the 60+ oyster is not the same body that has proposed reducing the validity of the freedom pass. But I can't see "free train/tube/tram travel for londoners 60-65 but not for those 66+" being a politically sustainable position.

Does PRT also use UTNs?

Crossrail added new platform pairs to a number of NR stations (plus some stations that were previously just tube/dlr stations) Paddington Farringdon Liverpool Street (conjoining it to moorgate in the process) Whitechapel Abbey wood Stockport got a new through platform in the 2000s (according...

I presume because the alternative is to have workers permanently work a particular shift, but people don't want to be stuck on the undesirable shifts.

Outdated mapping of train operator codes to display names. Operators are identified in the timetable by a two letter code. It seems at some point between privitisation and the present day they stopped changing these codes on franchise changes, so many codes still reflect former franchise...

I think supporting multiple different contactless PAYG schemes, particularly those run on different companies systems (tfl on cubic, tfw on wix) is likely much harder than bolting on ITSO support to an oyster/contactless validator for several reasons. 1. contractless payment cards can't store...