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I would suggest that what you describe is ‘behaviour’, not ‘culture’.

I'm confused... The Class 373 is the original Eurostar train, sometimes known as the E300. Are the surviving trains really being fitted with ETCS? Anyway, why would the 373 need an interlock between the passenger doors and the traction control when the doors were/are only opened at Waterloo/St...

Just to put this in context, the remodelling at Reading took place around 15 years ago and the completed station was opened by the late Queen in the summer of 2014. Inflation in the meantime means that prices and costs have increased by some 80%. That £700 million would be around £1,200 million...

In other threads I have previously posted explanations of the reasons and structure of leasing for rolling stock. The costs arise regardless of the ownership of the asset. 1775397942 Not many. The National Planning Policy Framework (which may be found at this URL...

The effect of higher petrol prices cannot be seen in isolation. The price of crude oil has practically doubled over the past two months so the costs of everything, fertiliser, food, manufacturing, distribution, everything, will rise if the price remains high. This will reduce economic activity...

In the run up to privatisation many models for the future structure of the railways were put forward by various interested groups and observers at various times. There is a good description of the events and discussions leading up to the Railways Act 1993 in the book “All Change. British Railway...

Regarding the words in bold — this ain't necessarily so. It's just as likely to end up with the benefits being aligned to the lowest common denominator as people will no longer be able to move to another operator with a different, and more suitable for the individual, set of wage and salary...

There was some 15 years ago (possibly still is?) a shop selling used mobile phones in the main hall of the Munich Hbf which was called 'Second Handy'...

How about going to Konstanz and then taking a ferry across Bodensee to Überlingen. It's very scenic!

Hindsight is a wonderful thing… …but it is certainly true that the new British Railways was compromised by the financial and legal structures existing in 1948. The points that I and others are trying to make are that: in its early days it made absolutely no attempt to adapt to the new social...

The war in question being the Great War... The post-war depression in the 1920s hit the heavy industries, a major component of the local economy in the North East, very hard and this was followed by the effect of the depression induced by the Wall Street crash and the ensuing slump in global...

I don’t know haw many times this has to be repeated, but this view that nationalisation was the only option is mis-informed and incomplete. The “Big Four” were certainly tight for money but this went back to the 1930s and post war Government decisions. Towards the end of the 1930s they...

There have been some jaw dropping delays and cost overruns on the Continent as well... ...the Berlin-Brandenburg airport. After some 15 years of planning construction started in 2006 and it was expected to open in 2011. It finally opened in 2020 - some 30 years after planning work commenced and...

EBITDA is a questionable metric. It refers to a company's Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortisation and is a measure of the profitability (or otherwise) of only the business's operations. It ignores the costs of depreciation of the physical assets and amortisation of the...

Regardless of the completion of the Euston-Birmingham-Manchester-Liverpool electrification in 1966 and the extension of the Southern Region's electrification in Kent and to Bournemouth global passenger numbers continued to decline over the next 15 years from just over 800 million in 1966/7 to...

As someone who lived through the changes in the railways from the late 1950s onwards my vote for the lowest ebb in the railways fortunes, both economically, visually and as a way to travel would be the decade from about 1955. British Railway's financial results had been deteriorating since 1952...

Is there a 'than' missing? Should it read '...than in the days...'? Do we have to admit anything? Does 'infrastructure work' refer to ongoing maintenance of the way and works or to significant enhancement projects? Or both? Does it include signalling installation as well as maintenance the...

Essentially the E40 motorway between Calais and Jabbeke (Oostende) killed it by reducing the driving time to an hour or so between the two towns. As the extra time the ships took along the coast to Oostende over the simple Dover-Calais crossing was between two and three hours (depending on wind...

Getting a financial case together to justify electrification of the routes serving the larger cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham and Cardiff was very difficult in the period from the 1960s onward. Glasgow was the largest network outside London and...

What is the benefit of such a step? A moment’s consideration of such a suggestion shows that, without significant alterations to the ‘intercity’ stations implementation would be very difficult. Whatever the safety concerns may be both coaches and aircraft control boarding by vehicle, railways...