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Good: General greasy/oily smell A warm mechanical signal box Bad: Dead animal in the 4ft!

BS1 and BS2 are now known as SEM1 (Signal Engineering Maintenance) and SEM2. You say you have a "sparkys ticket", you don't need to be a qualified electrician to work on signalling equipment, you only need to be trained in SPWEE and of course you'll need PTS.

Sometimes the digging of ventilation shafts would speed up the digging of the tunnel. Say you had a tunnel with a ventilation shaft in the middle, you could have two teams digging in from the outsides of the tunnel and two teams digging outwards either way from the centre.

The Network Rail Keypoint cards. http://www.safety.networkrail.co.uk/On-site-Solutions/Keypoint-cards

It's because the lenses on the old style signals are actually more blue than green. Incandescent lamps give off a yellowish light, not pure white like LED, so combined with the blue lens this makes a green. A lens in a signal and a traffic light are both quite different. Traffic light lenses...

One of my favourite quotes from Betjeman. "People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors."

Ok, it's not a route I usually travel, just the result I got on the NRE app. The service that came up was 0834 Rugby to Euston which it says takes 1 hour 3 minutes, about the same time as from Harborough to St Pancras. Perhaps I should have done some more thorough research!

Hello David, a fellow Harborian. Another comparison is Rugby to Euston. An anytime return is priced £69 for a distance of 82m 40ch, compared to Market Harborough to St Pancras where an anytime return is £118.50 for a distance of 82m 62ch.

The joke is the grammar is wrong. There should be no apostrophe. I guess now the joke is on me...

There's some video footage of the scene on the Daily Mail website; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2622241/Man-77-dies-car-struck-train-rail-crossing-North-Yorkshire.html

Just because you're on a diet doesn't mean you can't look at the rest of the menu.

I don't think anyone has mentioned signal post replacement switch yet.

I've noticed some trains displaying a yellow piece of paper with a black x on it in the cab window, what does this mean?

They are reflective mileposts. If it said 98 I, it would be 98 1/4 miles and 98 III would be 98 3/4 miles.

Having eyes on a poster seems to be effective. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22270052

Try this for a near miss. If you're in a rush skip the video to the last 15 seconds. http://youtu.be/oD0Js80twwA

Not an app but realtimetrains.co.uk works well as a mobile site.

If a signal is not proven to be lit then the signal in rear will go to it's most restrictive aspect. Sometimes a signal may be lit but appear black on the panel if the lamp is not drawing enough current to operate the proving circuit. If it is an auto signal the signaller is unable to tell what...

Rail Staff or Rail Engineer.

I believe Australia use the same signalling systems as us. If you look in railway magazines, especially ones aimed at railway employees, there are usually adverts in those. I've heard that too.