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Surely a document prepared in 2003, by an organisation which was abolished in 2006 which includes such gems as: "The SRA has considered whether fares regulation needs to be altered to accommodate changes likely as a result of the introduction of smartcard ticketing both in London and as part of...

Does anyone know how the "average" figure for the increases is applied? Do they really mean "average" as in arithmetic mean (all the fare income in a year divided by the number of tickets sold), or median (the mid-point fare) or mode (the most frequent fare)? Given the plethora of different...

Why was this problem not discovered earlier?

The siteplans are: Curzon Street https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/378424/C224-ARP-CV-DPP-040-226700_0.pdf Interchange...

Reverting to "the reasons why?", back in the day I was involved with the Planning / Reporting function on the Jubilee Line Extension Project. At Package Contract level, all of the packages, be it a specific Station or project-wide, were regularly (i.e. monthly or even weekly) producing project...

Either: Let us hope that the Orange Army and the bus drivers do not decide they would rather watch England in the World Cup Or: Let us hope that lots of people decide to stay at home and watch England in the World Cup rather than go to the sea-side

I was once involved in the design and construction of an "Internet Server Hotel" which provided "guaranteed permanent power" to it's customers. We had: Two totaly independent power supplies from the National Grid (i.e. not from two sub-stations on the same sub-grid, indeed the availabilty of...

I have received the following e-mail from VTEC: "It has been announced today that on the 24th June 2018 the East Coast Main Line will transition to be operated by LNER - London North Eastern Railway. The service will continue to run as normal. Your travel plans won’t be affected and all train...

If I understand this thread correctly, something which is being advertised as "for sale at price £X" cannot actually be bought and is therefore not actually for sale at price £X. Doesn't the Advertising Standards Authority have something to say about that sort of thing?

Indeed it does! However, I am one of those old farts who realises that wages make the world go round - if the machine does the job the workers loose theirs and their income is reduced or worse, so they cannot afford to buy stuff and somebody else looses their job and so on. So, I wait for a...

At the time I got to the Ticket Office, the train describer was reporting that the Southern Service from HML was cancelled. At the Ticket Office, the person behind the counter stated quite categorically that ALL Southern services were cancelld. THe option of changing at WFJ was not offered. It...

I travelled on this route yesterday. On arriving at HML to buy my return ticket via CLJ I was told that none were available because there were no Southern trains and I should buy a Travel Card. I said that I still wanted a via CLJ ticket, the lack of the time-tabled train via CLJ was an...

Indeed, that facility has always been available on the NSE / Silverlink / London Midland and now London Northwestern services out of Euston, if the Guard / Conductor makes an announcement on the lines of "Ladies and Gentlemen,as the train is very crowded I have declassified 1st Class so that is...

There is profit and there is profit. A lot of contractors will "front end load" the pricing - the bid price of an early item is increased above the "proper" price whilst an item late in the project is reduced below the "proper" price, the totals of the two adjustments are matched such that the...

"the grunt sub-contractors may experience some debt-management issues" - typically the "grunt" contractors issue invoices at 30 day intervals, on 60 day terms. Thus work to the end of say September is paid at the end of November, work in October paid at the end of January and work in November at...

My experience on LM services into and out of EUS from HML has been that the number of Guards / Conductors who ever emerge from their "offices" has been in slow decline over the last five years until it has almost vanished. The majority never ever make any announcements, probably on the...

Absolutely Brilliant. Please do not take any head of the "not invented here" crowd and carry on to completion. Currently the maps for the orange spaghetti that is the Overground are almost useless; your numbers make the network intelligible! Please add the National Rail services out of Euston...

Not sure about that last point (unless it is meant to be ironic): The Freeholder owns the property Leaseholder pays the freeholder (generally a lump sum) to buy a fixed term possession of the property for a fixed period of time - aka "the term" The Leaseholder may retain specifies rights over...

As an example of this, at HML LM put up a number of "gold" station names in recognition of the gold medals won by Hemel Hempsteadonians in the 2012 Olympics. Hopefully the new operators will leave them in place. With respect to the timing of re-branding, Silverlink ran a special tour over all...

Please remember that when talking about "% profit" there is a vast difference between profit as a a) % of capital invested and b) % of turnover. I would suggest that for most franchises a is much higher than b. I would also suggest that most franchises have a very positive cash flow so they do...