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Some airlines require cabin crew to have completed X years on domestic flights before they are allowed on international flights. Once the cabin crew are qualified for international, then seniority rules: more experienced air crew tend to get the better international flights. Purely...

Having read the summary report, it seems that the BCR of over 1:1 is based upon a reasonably large government contribution in some way taking some of the construction costs out of their BCR calculation. The summary seems to suggest that if there was no contribution from government that the BCR...

Shush.... you will give them ideas again.

The bridge like many on the sugar cane lines is limited as to its capacity. The train itself is taken across in parts, but the locomotive on its own needs additional brake force so a brake van is used to provide that. It has been a while since I watched the episode in question but I thought...

I needed a good laugh this morning... 24 days to lodge the PQQ application and they haven't even got qualified personnel to do anything yet? Even if they get a PQQ application lodged, I am sure that it would have the relevant bureaucrats in fits of laughter...

Rubbish, radio is interested in one thing - ratings. Ratings generate income through advertising/sponsorship/whatever. They have X number of hours of radio time to fill. They will use anything and everything to fill that time. The more stupid/controversial/inane the better as such content...

I would think a more telling example would be the fact that Indian Railways have never adopted double deck stock on metro routes such as in Mumbai even though their loading gauge may well permit such stock.

Of course no one flies from Stranraer to Dumfries, that was the point I was making. Why bring a spurious item about Glasgow/London air traffic into the argument? How does the increase in air traffic on that route have ANY bearing whatsoever on train travel from Stranraer to Dumfries and on to...

So all those people flying from Stranraer to Dumfries now will use the train in the future to travel to connect into the main line services at presumably Carlisle? :D Sorry Sandy but your arguments are getting more and more blinded by enthusiasm and less and less by real hard cold facts. What...

My apologies, it is the newspaper saying that you demand the reopening of the line... And how does asking to see a copy of your feasibility study constitute "slagging off"? Seems you have an extremely blinkered view of this proposal of yours and are progressively rejecting the considered...

Wow, 1299 signatures on the petition - not even 1% of the population of Galloway so far. Obviously one of the most important railway needs in the whole of Scotland... So where might I find a copy of your feasibility report to back up your DEMAND to reopen the railway?

How do you manage to come up with a ridiculous statement like that? If the railway was such a strategic link, why did it close in 1965 and there has been no real effort to reopen the line in the past 50 years? Compare that to the Borders Railway where there was a strong campaign from the day...

Dear Rail Minister, We have solved the problem of not offering the full range of cheap fares to passengers, err customers. We no longer have any cheap fares and are closing all ticket offices and replacing them all with TVMs that sell only open singles and open returns at exorbitant...

The 747 is dead, whatever happens. With the orders for the 747-8 being so relatively poor, it would take a miracle to expect any more 747 variants to be produced for civil use.

Don't care Well it does not affect me much since I live in Australia... as long as I can get my Britrail pass and ride any train, any time then I am happy. However... In broad terms I have always felt that certain necessary services SHOULD be the realm of government run operations...

One of the best train journeys I have ever done, anywhere.

Marylebone would be my vote although I like Paddington a lot

A lot of the Australian interstate network permits double stacked container traffic, so hardly one route alone :) They do have bridges over them in places too - they are just built to accept double stacked container trains. Not sure that I would call the Savannahlander a silver bullet train...

You may like to read the following thread: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=129167

The one thing that puzzles me about this incident is that the train seems to have travelled quite a distance after hitting the trap points, given the low speed involved. Obviously I am no expert but I would have assumed a 75 ton train would stop pretty quick once off the rails. I look forward...