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You may be no slouch Gathursy,but what about Clifton,Denton and Reddish South and further afield,the Cumbrian coast stations and the Little North Western ones,I shall monitor your progress...:wink: :)

Well its not a case of it making Driver's shifts longer,a Driver cannot simply drive at a speed that suits him,he is required to drive at the permissable speed for each location,unless he was cautioned in connection with an incident or some such.As for Guard's not taking fares?,again if their...

Now c'mon Gathursty,If you' said Wick or Bat and ball (great name for a station that!),it would have been impressive,but Hindley is only round the corner from you:roll:....:lol:

Because of their size,Birmingham has a population of 992,000,Leeds 720,000 and Manchester with Salford (Salford ends in Manchester's town centre) 635,000,whereas Liverpool has a population of 440,000.The trains to the the former three are already showing signs of full capacity yet the WCML...

Where to start?... Patricroft,a five platform station,with a huge engine shed and massive goods yard,now just two platforms,no staff and a couple of brick shelters,although the Top House (Queen's Arms) reputedly the first railway pub still serves a cracking pint. Guide Bridge,Even I remember...

Me....:wink:

Agreed,and when Walken (2),Atherton (2) and Crow Nest (4) close,there is every likelyhood at least six grade 7 Signalmen will be employed,(Its definitely nine in the case of Manchester East for three boxes),so with the discepancy between the wages and employment costs and offset by the huge...

A few people appear to be getting the words manual and mechanical mixed up.There are a lot of boxes that are manual boxes yet have colour light signals.The fact is its a case of, if its economic to get rid of a box, thats what happens,but a mechanical or manual operation doesn't necessarily...

Well there is a bit of irony here.There are going to be two IECC's in Stockport,Mancheater South and Manchester East.The former is already open,the latter to open later this year.The irony I was talking about,is that neither will control Stockport itself,which as you point out is controlled by...

The assessment may not be difficult,but to the guys who have applied for these jobs,I would advise you do not underestimate the task ahead if you are successful.Although TCB in itself is less complicated rule wise than Absolute Block,the fact is any grade 9 box is extemely busy and the pressure...

There is already a spur at Newton-le- Willows,Anything running to Worsley would now be difficult because of building over the track alignment at Monton Green....

I was going to edit this to read ' I absolutely believe',but someone may have noticed:oops:.

Yes it will!.Make a note of things you do,helping people out,good customer service, that sort of thing and then look on Virgin's website for CSAs or on train Hosts,the expierience you gain at this job will be invaluable.

Its in the DOT pot.Its academic how its apportioned,as Liam Fox at defence has found out,there will be so much money allocated to each department after the 20th and that will have to be spread whichever way that governmental department decides.If you think about it it,it couldn't be any other...

C'mon Ajax,you were caught bang to rights..admit it!:wink:

Excellent:D

and that person may say it doesn't necessarily have to be occupied by a train,it could and probably was,under a T2 protection and as such,the Signalman would have to wait until that protection was given up before signalling the train into the platform and before you say it,yes engineers do take...

The FOC's don't recieve any subsidy at all.There was the Freight Facilities Grant but that has been extended to other modes of transport and certainly isn't a direct subsidy.The reason Virgin often appear to get NWR to get work done on the lines that they use is that they contribute heavily to...

A lot of what happens depends on what McNulty says.The fact remains however that money is going to be tight,especially for the railways.The railway is only important to passengers and the people that work on them and politically they are not a big fish,and politicians will be scratching around...

I don't believe the Manchester Liverpool electrification will go ahead either,that said prepatory work is already underway so it will be interesting to see if that money is wasted or not.....