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Actually, they often have a little message to that effect on the side of packaged food in my experience. ScotRail seem pretty good at this and in my experience will hand out the forms on the train when it's delayed by more than half an hour.

It ought to be, given that the plans clearly show they're hoping to fit two tracks under it...

You're sounding pretty naive at the moment - I'd like to hear which railway job gives you intimate knowledge of the sexual preference of every person you meet! A quick look at any gay bar or dating site will quickly shatter any and all illusions you have about the "gay stereotype" once and for...

How easy is a track circuit to turn off? Presumably there's rarely any need to turn it off so no centralised control like OHL, so is it a relay room job?

1E25 was only running on one engine from Aberdeen so the original set was swapped with the 1S24 set, allowing the defective set to go back to Edinburgh and then to Craigentinny depot for repairs while minimising the delay to 1E25.

That's a bit chicken and egg though isn't it? The reason wheelchair users don't feel comfortable making unusual journeys is precisely because the network has traditionally been very inaccessible for them. We want the network to be open to everyone and this is a great way of finding out where the...

It is illegal in the UK for employers to ask questions or make hiring decisions based on an applicant's health record, and this includes asking questions about days off sick. If a company did ask me that question I'd probably take it as a sign they intended to discriminate based on health and...

Men in white coats would come and take them away? What you're describing would almost certainly be a one-off and would depend on all sorts of things, not least whatever was making the driver act so strangely. You might as well ask what if a driver phoned up a signaller at a station saying he was...

Brilliant! Cheers :)

All this has reminded me of an episode of that Railways documentary the BBC did recently, where they covered a track gang replacing wires that a "faulty freight train" had cut. Frustratingly, they didn't give any details. How on earth does that happen? I initially remembered it as a broken...

Quite right - it's absurd to suggest that even someone knowledgeable about trains should be expected to be vigilant for objects flying through the air from passing trains. In fact, their interest might lead them to expect that professionalism from an industry they've come to respect should allow...

Just finished I Tried To Run a Railway on the recommendation of this thread - great book, thanks. I'm starting The Train that Ran Away now - obviously a very different type of book, much more academic than the personal chatty tone of the former, but still looks to be very illuminating. I...

The intention is to link Fife Circle services with Borders services when the line opens, presumably to avoid using up very limited terminal capacity from the East at Waverley. Seems like it introduces a risk of transmitting delays between two mainly isolated routes though especially considering...