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A friend of mine wants to take his adorable special needs 7 year old boy (Prader Willi but for the purposes of this thread you can basically think of the mentality regarding trains as autistic/ocd but without detailed knowledge) who loves trains on a trip this Saturday with some fairly...

Someone managed to turn left onto a railway the other day. Without too much regard to cost (but not being absurd) what engineering solutions could prevent this? The obvious one to me is a barrier across the railway but it would need to fail safe from the train perspective (especially at an AHB)...

Apparently magistrates courts have duty solicitors. This makes me wonder - when a TOC takes you to court (let's assume that attempts to avoid that have failed) I would have thought you should ask to see the duty solicitor for free legal advice. Particularly if you have a defence in law but...

Is a first class ticket unused if it's been used to get into a lounge? Or put another way, can a ticket that was purchased and used solely for using a first class lounge be subsequently legitimately refunded? Seems an unlikely thing to happen given the relative poverty of station lounges...

Obviously the correct answer to this is "whatever you can persuade accounts to do/what your company policy says" but what do you think is a reasonable expenses reimbursement if travelling on a two together railcard with someone who isn't an employee? One argument could be that you are half of...

Today's my birthday and I get this email: Image is a "Welcome to the Branch Line Society" email, with my name/number/password censored Best railway related gift I've ever received, despite its trivial monetary value. What's yours? Partly asking this as a stealth brag, partly asking it to...

What was the last strike before the Go North East one of comparable disruption? Just curious cause it's had bugger all national publicity and even around here it's hardly on the tip of anyone's tongue - despite being massive in size.

https://twitter.com/bristolairport/status/1727651705309876546 Bristol Airport have just opened a "multi faith area" in their free pickup area. It looks so ridiculous that I thought it was a joke to begin with. Do we think that this is a textbook example of malicious compliance? It's hardly...

There's probably already a thread explaining this but I'm not sure what to search for. By "lines" I mean the parallel metal grooves on the roofs of these coaches and some derivived units. As well as clearly other trains - I'm in an Azuma (which I'm reasonably sure doesn't have the lines) in...

Picture speaks for itself I think (and thus not being familiar enough with Bond Street I'm not sure what direction this platform is in) What's going on here? How are the danger signs like that!

There's a level crossing thread at the moment and it just reminded me - generally speaking I have two approach strategies to level crossings. If I am time pressed I will do everything safe/legal to get through the level crossing, perhaps being a bit naughty about acceleration etc. The vast...

Having a bit of fun with the pre release version of Train Sim World 4 on the Antelope Valley Line - the signals are explained here. So my question is whether they actually mean literally as described. For example, suppose you pass a signal with an aspect that says you must reduce to 40mph, but...

The smashboard - which I've just learned about 30 seconds ago so am hardly an expert in - was a signalling concept in the US where in certain circumstances semaphore signals would place a board in front of the train, thus if you SPAD'd you'd smash through it which would hopefully alert you to...

My grandfather on my mother's side died when I was about 12 and I was vaguely aware at the time he was a railway enthusiast - indeed I think he was the first person I ever heard say "rolling stock" (I had read the term of course). He was a wonderful man but we didn't have enough time on earth...

I will be doing Durham - Watford on 27th August and Watford - Durham on 2nd September. Haven't booked anything yet. How great are the industrial actions planned for these days likely to be? Am currently eyeballing 13:53 Durham - Sheffield followed by 16:28 Sheffield - St Pancras + Met to...

Missus is entering 3rd trimester and so despite her being northern* I've been a bit cheeky and ordered the free TFL baby on board badge and had it sent to my work address darn sarf (quite odd they'd let it be sent to a Mr Egg Centric, Where Egg Centric Nominally Works, Business Park With Bee...

What's the reasoning for lack of speed signage for the crossover to Stonebirdge Park Depot? Is it as simple as "it's TFL only" or is there more at play? Perhaps such crossovers don't need speed signage in general. I'm aware that in principle it's up to the driver to know the route. But it has...

Which first classes provide complimentary Coke and which provide complimentary Pepsi? I used to be indifferent but the recent reformulation of Pepsi makes it undrinkable to me. It's very disappointing that LNER, who I use the most, provide the latter.

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/smoking-on-the-train.251364/ The solution is to bring back smoking areas on trains. You can avoid them from causing health consequences to staff by banning the latter from them. Of course this will make fare evaders use them but...

There's surprisingly little info about the technical details of this online (as opposed to the consumption of the results of the technical details!) so I started a thread. I found photos of a GWR IET kitchen and an LNER one here where the perspective has been used in a bizarre way to make it...