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I've received delay repay because a train was not replatformed. Northern train ex Skipton connecting at Leeds with the last direct service to London was running very late, such that a connection was going to be about 1-2 minutes. The guard on the Northern service moved all of us who were wanting...

It's also worth noting that sentencing guidelines are exactly that - guidelines. A judge needs to have a good reason to deviate from them, but where a good reason does exist then judges can and do give more (or less) stringent sentences than laid down in the guidelines. Such sentences are more...

The ones that annoy me the most are "London Overground is part suspended" (or has severe delays, etc) with no further detail. The Victoria line has interchanges with five or six different London Overground lines (depending how you count the routes out of Liverpool Street). Interchanging at Bank...

Worth noting that if you can't touch in then you shouldn't touch out - tell the staff at your destination where you came from and they should be aware and let you out. At least this is what happened when there was some sort of failure at Mile End a couple of years ago that meant the gateline was...

The main charge is Causing death by dangerous driving. The sentencing guidelines for that offence are at https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/crown-court/item/causing-death-by-dangerous-driving/ As this incident was in August that what will apply. However, there are a number of factors...

As I understand it, the system guesses your destination based on a number of factors, including usual travel patterns and subsequent journeys. If it got it wrong then ring the helpline and they should refund you.

I've seen it at Canary Wharf a few times. The escalators from quay level at the western end of the concourse there are arranged in two pairs, very oddly (to me) off-peak both have an up and a down escalator, but during the peak the southern pair are both down and the northern pair both up. I've...

The Elizabeth line was also disrupted before the trespass incident due to a faulty platform edge door at Liverpool Street*. I was at Stratford trying to get to Harold Wood at about 2pm, but at least two consecutive eastbound services ran non-stop to Shenfield, presumably just to get some trains...

As noted in post #4, she didn't get given a special pass (this is shoddy "journalism" from MyLondon) she has a pass because of something else she does (she's a BTP Special Constable so I presume it's that)

The actual relevant issue (as much as there is one) is whether standing passengers fare worse in derailments than seated passengers. I don't recall ever seeing any analysis of this (but I've not looked at all recently)

And it has it in the form of the 800s and 387s.

I live on the Lewisham branch, but don't get out in the morning peak that often. At the times I do travel the only significant difference is more people alighting at West India Quay (which offers the quickest interchange to Canary Wharf Crossrail) - indeed I used WIQ more in the first six months...

The length of DLR trains is independent of (but related to) Crossrail. The reduced the length of some trains so they could run more of them - there are simply not enough units to run every train as three cars. Even with every train to Lewisham being three cars long and running more frequently...

MyLondon, the publisher of the article, is the very definition of an unreliable source! It has more mistakes than the Daily Mail and Evening Standard combined. If the headline is the only factual error I will be surprised.

So not an option to open this quicker, and wouldn't have been an option to open a mainline quicker either, so the question remains.

And what options would there be to reopen it quicker? They can't reopen the line until they've replaced the track They can't replace the track until they've rebuilt the bridge Rebuilding the bridge is being done as quickly as it is possible to do safely, but that couldn't begin until all the...

AIUI NR pays for the clear up and reinstatement, but will be able to claim some of that back from the train operator if the train is determined to be at fault (the train operator will then likely claim some or all of that back from the wagon owner, who will claim some or all of that back from...

AIUI Network Rail pay the costs of bridge strikes, and then try and recover as much of them as they can from vehicle insurers. In a 2018 article a Network Rail person said I've not found anything more recent that suggests things have significantly changed since then

The difference between bridge strikes and level crossings is that level crossings are entirely the responsibility of the railway - they manage both the road and rail parts of them - but with bridges that's rarely the case and they have to liaise with other land owners and infrastructure managers...

Sorry, I completely misinterpreted the "some folk" in your post to be referring to people posting on this thread, not drivers navigating the road in question.