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What happens to the Driver when this occurs - obviously a "meeting without coffee" but the cost of the delays must be astonomical , add in that pantograph and overhead damage ? Disciplined ? Not fired surely - final warning? - If you caused this amount of delay or damage equivalent in any other...

I do think this is funny ( in a sad way) as from 1997 ( when it reopened for Sunday service) to 2019, when the company went bust, a whole range of units, railtours, 66's on occasional ballast all went past a range of stock on platform 2 , with out any issue at all ( 08, mk1 coaches, mk2...

I had a trip up and back on Sunday. Departed from the bay at St Davids, busy but not packed. Was amazed the amount of people piling of the train when we arrived, from Okehampton and return later laden down with shopping! The new track was smooth and very fast. A member of staff at Okehampton...

I always thought they designed it along the lines of Stalinist/brutalist architecture, with a whiff of bunker desperation thrown in. Totally un appealing with no concession to the poor customers who have to use it at all. I'm speaking from trackside - I've never seen it from street level, it...

Fingers crossed then. I've had many a nice pasty in there !

So GWR ?

And the start of the war?

Wonder if NR would get the buffet to pay rent, in that case ? ( like they do other retail at stations)

So Network Rail own the main ( up) building now) - That doesn't bode well for the buffet ( they have already said ( somewhere else) that the station will be "unstaffed" - perhaps it should be Okehampton Halt? :-). I have seen Dartmoor railway selling tea out of an Urn or similar from the down...

I've just zoomed on the notice and it says " staff" so I think just a "Physical Thing" to have with you as your section ( bit similar to Topsham - Exmouth which back in the day had a wooden staff , like a relay race baton with a little brass plate on it). Crediton- Okehampton must be similar...

It used to be one section, between Crediton and the quarry. When the supporters started running the dartmoor pony, they split it at Okehampton ( there are big boards near the old signal box " start of token section" or similar). This was to allow the dartmoor pony to run from okehampton and...

Is part of the problem that the units, since the new timetable are running more miles(Or being used for longer during the day)? resulting in more accumulated breakdowns? ( I don't know if they run more miles now since May , just asking). I guess on a double track line with a failed unit, its...

I caught the 16:54 or thereabouts platform 9 KX to Baldock, 8 car 365 looking tidy, made an unscheduled stop at Finsbury park - driver told us after we boarded. No one got on or off at Finsbury - driver tooted the horn several times - doors didn't open. Also 1st train I've ever been on that...

Thanks - that must have been it !

Saw a Midland Main Line liveried HST heading north through Hitchin last night. Perhaps it was lost.

Signal problems now cleared apparently (From twitter) National Rail‏Verified account @nationalrailenq 21m21 minutes ago CLEARED: Trains are now running normally between London Kings Cross and #Stevenage following a fault with the signalling system between the stations. 0 replies1 retweet1 like...

That's the example I was thinking of - Thanks !

There was an issue years ago with the 1st generation DMU's . The guard used to hit the internal buzzer "buzz, Buzz" for right away. When the driver heard it in their cab, they used to sometimes pull away without checking the platform starter signal first - result SPAD.

Wasn't Diesels supposed to be a stop gap prior to total electrification? Also lack of investment, short term government thinking - roads are investment, railways are subsidy. For a long time, railways were in long term decline ( Managed decline I think BR called it), starved of funds - why then...

Fowey & Liskeard are fun.