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    ECML Overhead Line damage this morning (21/05)

    Having been out with the OHL staff putting on earth straps , they didn.t look to be them poles and they was also all in cars and no one in Orange overalls so they wouldn,t be going on the track. Was they LNER staff making sure that the cause was not there pantograph? by taking pictures to prove...
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    British Steel on verge of administration: Impact on Network Rail?

    British Steel gone bust then as just been reported on Radio Humberside at 10-15.
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    ECML Overhead Line damage this morning (21/05)

    I was on the second train ( 05-37 from Doncaster ) and we was stopped twice and in total was 2hours 10 mins late into Kings Cross, it was very quiet sat there on the train with the driver busy taking pictures of the pantograph from the bankside. Nothing also passed us going the other way either...
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    Hull Trains HST

    A smashed window in the green first class coach yesterday somewhere between Selby and Doncaster closer to Doncaster I think was actual location. It was also 45+ mins late heading for London after a points failure at Selby.
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    Leeds station overall roof

    Here is a picture that I put on another post on here about Leeds Station. Just look at the amount of dirt, fluff etc that has collected on this wire mess on this signal and thats down near the ground level. I wonder what its like high up on the walkways high up in the station roof where the...
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    Leeds station improvement updates

    Have you looked up on Leeds station and seen just how dirty it is? That is supposed to be wire mesh on the signal you can just see through it in places time it was all cleaned up.
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    Train stabling sidings for Scarborough

    I think the answer to above is don,t ask just look at the picture.
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    Quiet Coaches

    Its like everything in life these days some people just don,t know how to conduct themselves in public and respect things like its the quiet coach so talk quietly and not use there phone. Some people have to talk very loud just to let other people let them know that they are here or talk on the...
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    Hull Trains HST

    It looks like the HST train set will be used Friday and Saturday ( 22nd & 23rd) at some point on both days.
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    My idea to abolish seat reservations

    Save a lot of time and messing about and get rid of all seat reservations and if your ticket is for that train then thats the train you have to be on and just find a seat. Its actually un fair if someone has bought a ticket months in advance and paid very little for there ticket as against...
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    Hull Trains cancellations due to chronic shortage of available rolling stock

    It looks like the HST set is coming out to play on 1st & 2nd (Friday & Saturday) March 2019 .
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    The inadequacies of LNER's electronic seat reservation signs

    Totally agree with above about the paper labels, you can walk down the platform and look in to the coach and think keep going no seats in that coach free and same if your on the platform as the train rolls in you can look into the coach and think not many un-reserved seats in that coach and note...
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    More change for Network Rail

    You will find that most of the airlines only lease there planes as well. Most large companies lease photocopiers, computers etc. even P & O cruises on board ship vacuum cleaners etc are all on lease contract. If you lease something then say every quarter pay for the equipment hire or car, bus...
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    More change for Network Rail

    Sounds to me a bit like another session of Empire Building, jobs for the boys. Its no wonder that it cost a fortune to run, why not just have a plan and stick with it to the end instead of keep changing things.
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    Energy Efficiency on the Railways - is there a plan?

    The former Kings Cross Thameslink station lighting may be required to be on so that it can be used as an emergency train evacuation point as if you look there are emergency fire doors exits from the old platform into the the Underground station part of the station still in use. It might also be...
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    Hull to Gilberdyke area re-signalling

    Is the re-signalling between Hull and Gilberdyke finished then as there is still old signals still in place etc.? Has Crabley Creek gone to 24 hour working? or is it still 2 shift working? because if not the £50 million spent on re-signalling hasn,t cured the problem of Cinderella Railway to and...
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    Hull Trains 180s

    The 4 car 180 set is one of the four trains with a coach missing (think its set 180009 )and I think you will find the missing coach is the one that had the fire below it at Grantham a couple of months ago. Its been re-assembled as a four coach set while the missing coach is repaired may be?
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    Hull Trains cancellations due to chronic shortage of available rolling stock

    Anyone have any ideas when Hull Trains is going to get back to a normal service then? with there existing rolling stock or will they get something in Like an HST or two to help out and restore a service then.
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    Engineering work on ECML, every weekend from 10/11 to 2/12

    At present time there is some Rail Replacement in the system for 11th, 24th & 25th November and 1st & 2nd December 2018 as advertised on stations by TPE all Saturdays and Sundays so may be they have taught the signalling system installed to talk to York ROC this time. As last April 1st, 2nd &...
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    Active Network Rail tip sites

    There is one at March on what used to be the marshalling yards and also at Tyne Yard, but I don,t think actually much ends up in tips these days as its usually sorted. Ballast is cleaned and maybe reused or sold for hardcore etc. wood will be sold as will be scrap steel. So in the end there will...

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