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Me, I'd be delighted, as long as it was clean. Your things in brackets I wouldn't even notice, nor see any reason to object if I did notice them, but a comfortable seat I certainly would appreciate. I'd be even more delighted if they gave me a 40 year old Peugeot 304, which not only has even...

I often wish that the jigging back and forth between the Midland route via Crudworth and Normanton, and the joint line via Pontefract, had finished up with the Crudworth route being retained instead of the joint line. Mainly, it has to be said, for historical reasons - it galls me to have such a...

There used to be a Motorail terminal at Worcester Shrub Hill - very minimal, just one bay and that was it. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/interests/rail/stnpages/worcestershrubhill.html has some clear pictures of the platforms at Shrub Hill; the photo about a quarter of the way down...

Yes, thank you, that was interesting too. If questions like this are common, it suggests that it isn't so much a case of this site needing a popup, but of RTT needing a "Glossary" page that explains what all the various terms and abbreviations they use signify. I looked for such a page before...

Oh, OK. Thanks very much, that makes it all make sense!

Poking around on realtimetrains (which I have recently discovered) I have found what looks like an inconsistency and I do not understand it. 1M07 from WOS terminates BHM platform 11b at 1644. The "Schedule Information" field has "WTT schedule UID P83409, identity 1M07; Runs SO between...

Because you're not giving off the same subconscious signals that a neurotypical "timid/shy/reserved" person would. I get people reacting funny to me and it is quite evident that they are expecting some kind of reaction or signal from me which they're not getting - because whatever it is they're...

Big long red and white tickets with the variable details filled in in purple print. DMUs accelerating away from stations in first gear, suddenly making a loud blattering noise and chucking out thick columns of clag as they passed through a rev range which coincided with an exhaust system...

Birmingham (via Kidderminster)/Hereford - Worcester SH (combine) - Gloucester - Swindon - Reading - Redhill - Ashford - Dover Birmingham - Worcester - {Gloucester - Chepstow}/Hereford (alternating) - Newport - Swansea - Carmarthen (split/make connections for the ends of the brush) Weymouth -...

Any idea what's happening after that, with B&H-routed services? Still some HSTs or none at all?

Oh, I'm sure I've got a few... Rail fares should always be less than the cost of driving. (Note: the cost of driving === the cost of the fuel used for the journey. This shouldn't need saying, since it is dead obvious when you actually do the journey and look at what you actually spend, but...

Well, we did have the ETHELs. What was the manning deal with those? I wish I knew. I think substandard/underspecified components had a lot to do with it, but it is still odd that there were different designs from different manufacturers and none of them were any good.

No - that only applies in the case of electric fields (and it's a lot harder there to achieve complete shielding than people think). Here we're concerned about magnetic fields, which are even harder to screen out. Ferromagnetic materials will do the job partially but you need a superconductor to...

How many of the people on those services who you are complaining about will have read what you posted on here just now? I'm trying to explain why they act like that and all you do is dismiss it for reasons the average passenger neither knows nor cares about. Buffoon yourself.

I remember being on the GW150 special which conked out half way up Dainton due to dirty fires in both locos and failed to get going again without assistance. I remember how the cheers from the watchers at the far end of the tunnel when it finally emerged into their view turned to boos when the...

Milton Keynes Central didn't open until 1982. Bletchley was the main station until then. And centring the development around the existing station would have provided a stronger argument against closure. It would have been possible to provide services along an east-west axis through the centre as...

I was thinking of London Reconnections when I posted it It was the way they carry on about it on there that induced me to dig up as many diagrams of the underground structures in that area as I could find in order to get a handle on the tangle and see exactly what is in the way of what. I...

As heating elements age, the insulating material which is packed around the wire inside begins to deteriorate, and becomes more and more electrically conductive when it is hot. This is what is happening when the cooker starts blowing the breaker at shorter and shorter intervals after you turn it...

The NHS is in such a mess because of the Thatcherist meme that "business" is the magic solution to every problem. It can't be privatised because there would be national outrage, so it has been forced into what is effectively a situation where it pretends to be a business and do businessy things...

Mechanical watches can be affected by parts becoming permanently magnetised so they stick to each other and do not move freely. Things like steel hairsprings in particular. To do this you need a powerful steady magnetic field, as from a powerful permanent magnet such as the one in a speaker...