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All at a stand at Newark until just now. 0535 to KGX arrived 4E but departed 53L. Apparently a train stuck near Grantham. 0606 to KGX just left Newark 0640. A number of cancellations as there was also a failed train outside Leeds. As the lady in the buffet said: "I do love Monday mornings on the...

I have sat at Norwell (on the ECML) for 7 or 8 trains in a row on occasion. Worst was after a blockage at Retford had just been cleared, so the up 'queue' was striking in one after another, probably on double yellows. With the down traffic being released as well, there was a train every minute...

Ticket machines on the ECML are apparently all offline this morning, report staff here at Newark NG ("it's a route peoblem we're told"). Going to be busy at the ticket offices in a bit, I expect - feel for the staff who will have to deal with the inevitable last minute grumpy buggers.

Interesting - and I'd not be surprised if SNCF consider doing the same (as an aside, note that Brussels Midi already has an IATA airport code; these days Air France 'fly' passengers from Paris CDG to Brussels by train...). Reading the article, it explicitly states that all transport is to be...

On LUL it would be a CVTS: Continuous Vertical Transportation Supervisor. (Like the big lifts are PMVT: Primary Means of Vertical Transportation ). And their boss has to be the VTM...vertical transportation manager? And on the Eiffel Tower has it to be CDA (chef des ascenseurs), or...

A friend of mine was trained as a signalling designer on the Underground. Noticing the tight terminus turnround times for London Underground crews, he and some colleagues realised that an interlocking change was desirable at terminus approaches: the MKCR relay (Mess Room Kettle Checking) was...

Signalling problems tonight - reportedly in Hatfield area both ways. I'm on the 1N32 1930 Newcastle (actual d1943). Held 4 mins before Alexandra Palace both DF snd DS plus carriage washer stationary. Now diverted via Hertford, they say 'to reduce the delay'. Ph well, it's been a while since I...

Hi, I've been lurking on this discussion, watching the situation develop with some despair and disappointment (but little real surprise). It certainly would not encourage my colleagues to travel by rail to Scotland! Whilst I wasn't affected by it all (my travel happens to have been very...

Couldn't agree more. Twitter actually has quite a small, and falling, userbase. Unless a user chooses to subscribe to a medium largely full of things i really don't wish to read, they won't read them. And note: i am an IT power-user. I work with computers all day some days, and configure from...

Interesting discussion. When I travel for business, I use rail wherever viable in the UK, and of course flights internationally! I've had many a delay on both modes of transport, often making me somewhat to exceedingly late home. My employers know I claim compensation (I encourage...

(slight aside...) A couple of posters have mentioned that, being deaf, they can't hear announcements. Whilst they do have the bliss of not hearing the repetitive announcements every few minutes (or so it seems), there is a rather more serious matter that staff and/or operational practice don't...

And it still happens today. fairly often. I have (a few years ago now, it was during the last Ash Cloud incident)) travelled from Chester to Holyhead sitting on my flightcase in the lobby of the totally overloaded Arriva 3-car unit. ON that occasion, I had a reserved seat *somewhere* in the...

A couple of years ago I was on a Hope Valley express from Sheffield to Manchester on a freezing, foggy January morning. A little short of Edale we came to a stand, then crept up to the box (where the signaller had to lean out of the nice double-glazed windows - brr! - only box I've ever seen...

yet oddly enough it is now perfectly calm here in Newark, just 12 minutes north of Grantham (where it was blowing hard and raining heavily). Weird weather! (hey, I must be English, I'm talking about the weather again)

Not a good night for the East Coast. Earlier wind damage caused delays near Chester-le-Street. Some delays. Now Grantham Station has roof damage which means platform 1 is closed to traffic. Reported cause is 'gale-force winds in the area' which is plausible but not sure if it's really that...

I've sat at the Vicarage Lane crossing (north end of this group) for up to 25 minutes on occasion - and I only use the road as a 'scenic alternative' when the main route into Newark from the NW is a mess. To be fair, that day a blockage near Retford had recently been cleared and the trains had...

Tram 1021 failed at mediacity this afternoon - seemed the drivers could not get control from the 2nd cab when reversing at Mediacity. Resulted in next Piccadilly shuttle using Platform 2, which seems fairly unusual given the rust on the rails.

Yes, it was 222 104 on the 0847 ex sheffield. Fire under car 2. Nicely smoky when we were turfed off at 0955 or so. Looked like oil leak onto exhaust or other v. hot part under the vehicle. BTP were already on the platform when we arrived. following train was delayed 70 mins or so. Others were...