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'Our' is often confusing because at primary school we were taught (by nuns!) to pronounce it as arrr, whereas everyone else seems to use ower I failed to convince the wife that worcestershire sauce is pronounced wor-ces-ter-shu-shire... she still has no idea how one manages wooster from the...

Do you mean the 10 character IDs? If so the third from right is the 'call code' - see https://wiki.openraildata.com/index.php/Train_Activation ('train_id' halfway down) and https://wiki.openraildata.com/index.php?title=Call_Code for the meaning of the code.

On TPE recently a guy announced someone was sitting in his seat and showed something on his phone that could easily be typed by hand. Anyway, he got the seat no questions asked but it’s confusing as nothing at all was marked or displayed. Having recently had reservations on one XC that then...

Finally had a look at our drum of 'signal lamp burning oil' - all it says is is contains aliphatic hydrocarbons which Google reckons is paraffin.

We have a drum of lamp oil stored at the railway - I'm not there for a couple of weeks but if I get a chance I'll see what all the labels say.

Ok, but... ...which is what a prediction is. But they make these predictions with a great deal of knowledge behind them.

So taxis still queue up sort-of where they used to? We'll be arriving into Leeds in a few days and probably not in the mood to go hunting!

Our local hospital maternity wing is a case in point. Newborns are carried through a haze of smoke usually generated by people attached to multiple drips on coat stands... but one has to remember it is your right to smoke and surely hospitals should make proper provision for people. As to...

It looks like the senior one only needs proof of age - no mention of a photo in the online docs either. At a very quick guess its because the '2 together' must always be the same 2 people so perhaps visual identification is needed? That's only a maybe - the 16-25 railcard has a photo.

The pic I put in #10 is the loop at Shau Kei Wan - not sure how many trams did the whole route, maybe 1 or 2 an hour. I remember we waited a while in the McDonalds there for the tram. But we got off a couple of stops before Kennedy Town as it was getting late by then. This was 2017. Yeah...

I hope to be out there again very soon. Last time we almost did the entire tram route but got off a stop early due to the time... fun things. This is a cropped image from a verylong way back so apologies for the quality - with a trailing wind you might just make out the height of the tram and...

I suspect those sites slapping a huge popup before you can access the content are doing so in the hope that you just click it away and thus 'consent'. There are some really awful examples out there, including one media type site I found that would have required me to deselect each of around 400...

At work (when I used to work and not rail related) we made a big thing of reporting near misses as well as incidents. Very safety conscious place and it needed to be, but we did find it hard to get people to report concerns and near misses rather than only reporting incidents.

The sad NYMR incident - while remembering someone died is a good case in point for some of the comments here. A fatality yes but the sector was not closed down en masse as a result. The RAIB summary simply ends with: "The RAIB has identified two key learning points relating to the locking of...

More here: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3002125/signalling-system-blamed-hong-kong-mtr-collision-was-also

Sadly, no it's not, because you made a copy rather than lending the original. Copyright lasts for ages after the death of the author and if the author is a company which still exists, or if the copyright has somehow been taken over by someone/thing else it's still live. Dangerous ground if you...

Out of interest and not being picky, member or volunteer? An overgeneralisation yes but members join to support a thing financially, volunteers are members but also make that thing a reality. As a volunteer I am very safety conscious and never alone. I look both ways before crossing the track...

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I can imagine they'd be high maintenance as they would very quickly get obscured by crud, toilet waste, grease, oil, leaves...

That's not necessarily a lack of social interaction. I worked in higher education for 40+ years and it is way to easy for a joke to be taken out of context (and sometimes quite awkward to then have to explain the punch line in 4 different ways to 4 different groups!). Mind you, I do see what you...