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You won't see them in street running areas, just segregated running. They also, weirdly, aren't present at East Didsbury.

They are SPAD lights. You'll often see them flashing if there is a conflict monitor fault, which means the TMS system can't tell whether there's more than one LRV in a section. The line controller will be talking any services past the affected signals in this case.

I'm not sure to be honest, I would note that bi block sleepers are used extensively on the French high speed lines...

I can't comment on what the policy is going forward as I don't know, however what I do know is that conventional sleepers aren't uncommon on Metrolink anyway, and M5000s typically ride better over the areas of the system that used conventional sleepers (be they timber or concrete). Bi-block...

In the spirit of doing exactly the things that will p*ss the fans off, F1 have just announced that Las Vegas will remain on the calendar until 2037. Fantastic. :rolleyes:

Precisely. Which makes the suggestion of banning non employees from carrying them impractical at best. 503 surely ;)

Precisely. So when I’m travelling to and from work with a BR1 key around my neck, is that justified or not?

Only in a very, very small area and under very specific circumstances.

I don’t work for the railway, but I legitimately carry two BR1 keys with me every time I commute to work. One is on my lanyard and clearly visible. So where would I stand on this hypothetical ban?

As I’ve already stated, Metrolink has ‘horn’ boards. They’re located at Victoria (OB before the NMU crossing), Piccadilly (in the tunnel just before the NMU crossing IB, and just before the NMU crossing OB), Piccadilly Gardens (OB before the NMU crossing), Wharfside (between IWM and Wharfside...

Metrolink does. Perhaps it’s time other operators did too.

The ASDO on Northern’s 331s is in use whenever a 6 car set is used on the Chat Moss route in particular. Not that it seems to be very reliable given how often you see the guard turn the ASDO override switches. The end result is inconsistency. For example a 6 car set on the down at Deansgate...

Speaking from experience, there is often pressure on the operator to take measures to prevent repeat incidents. The pressure comes from the ORR, and essentially makes it the de facto responsibility of the operator to prevent incidents on NMU crossings, regardless of the behaviour of the user...

Is there not still the Northern ticket office on platform 4?

Improved reliability won’t sort out the pretty huge design flaws with them though, will it?

ANC and SFQ respectively. If the codes were ever wrong for these stations it was corrected long before I started as a Driver (more than a decade ago). This is the exact reason why the name wasn’t changed in any internal systems/documentation. The Etihad campus name boards on the station itself...

Derailments could potentially happen anywhere. The presence of a station platform doesn’t mean anything in this context.

You could argue that Metrolink doesn’t have any stops at all, they’re defined as stations in the rule book.

But, but, they were designed by you, for you!

There are often things that work fine on paper… Victoria is also suffering from a long standing TSR which really hampers capacity.