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    Trainline.com - release of customer data to TOCs

    After reading a few threads about trainline.com releasing customer data to a TOC, where do they stand in terms of data protection? I can understand them having to co-operate with the police, but to a TOC?
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    What is this sign?

    It's a datum plate.
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    Spalding bypass

    Morning. Just wondered whether any line closures have been scheduled for the installation of the new bridge at Pinchbeck as part of the Spalding bypass construction?
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    Why aren't the platforms at UK railway stations renumbered?

    God not this again. Zero is just as valid a digit as one, got to love the imperial system loving folk
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    Trivia: Stations still known by old names

    TBF, no-one in Huddersfield says "Leeds" at all <D
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    Trivia: National Rail platforms where doors can open on both sides

    Grantham?
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    Lumo overspeed incident at Peterborough (17/04/2022)

    You don't need to work in the industry to make an educated guess.
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    Accidentally using my return ticket in wrong order

    Correct. As the "Birmingham" example demonstrates all too clearly.
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    Bars erupting from OHLE structures parallel to the contact wire

    Why would you need duplicate earths?
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    Stations that should have their platforms renumbered

    Got to love this irrational fear of zero. You probably still use Fahrenheit and imperial measures :rolleyes:
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    Trivia: ”Single station” towns with station name suffixes

    Interestingly, the Network Rail website calls it that.
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    Trivia: ”Single station” towns with station name suffixes

    Leeds City
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    PDFs and how they work.

    There aren't any problems lol, just someone making a tornado out of a breeze ;)
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    PDFs and how they work.

    I suggest you get a modern smartphone, pdfs display perfectly fine on my iPhone.
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    Platforms of Last Resort

    How does that work then?
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    PDFs and how they work.

    That's complete rubbish. I quote: "Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems." Modern...
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    More prominent RPI and BTP on South Eastern?

    Agreed with the timing issue. If the train is just approaching the station and my partner is holding the baby and other accessories etc. ready to disembark, I'd be telling the RPI to do one for his stupidity.
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    Debit card handed to station staff - next steps of the staff?

    " The "chip" isn't where the contactless ability comes from, there's a loop around the perimeter of the card. I got a small crack in one of my cards, only about 5mm long, and it destroyed the contactless ability and you could just see the three tiny wires that had been severed. " Of course it...
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    ELI5: What's so special about the Harrington Hump?

    Of course the real question is why aren't all platforms at door height anyway?
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    Disabled Passenger Over-Carried

    A bit like disabled passengers it would seem.

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