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My son used to drive for the local bus company. He sometimes did Sunday Rail Replacement services. One weekend the company set a route which included a bridge for which the bus exceeded the limiting height. He had to sort it out with the TOC - passengers were asked to walk from the station to a...

This NR media video on YouTube gives fairly good idea of how the Thameslink/LU Station will look when complete. The existing concourse will give access to the LU platforms and link to the new Turnmill Street concourse. The Western entrance for Crossrail will be from the Thameslink ticket...

You mean "Leaves on the line" was just an excuse, after all, before modern stock was introduced. As a veteran commuter, I certainly remember it being a problem when they were still running 411s on Kent lines. Regards Bushy

NR recently issued a notice to their project staff, consultants and contractors about consultation with neighbours after works to cut back trees and undergrowth in one location had to be cancelled due to objections. It's a complicated issue and like most public bodies NR have to be aware of...

As a commuter who joins the up train early enough to ensure a choice of seats, I prefer an aisle seat but am always ready to get up to allow somebody to take the adjacent seat. If two people are travelling together and the seat on the opposite side of the aisle is vacant as I will either move to...

I was at Chesterfield one afternoon this week, boarding a late running EM to St. Pancras. A member of platform staff assisting a mobility impaired passenger (or whatever they are call these days) was locked on the train, in the rush to get the train away. Fortunately the dispatcher realised...

Must be something about buses and railways in that part of Essex. This was less than a month later on the adjacent bridge. Perhaps the driver didn't want to risk running the crossing. My son got his PSV licence when he was 18. He is a better driver than many older drivers, including me and some...

The VEIDs on LU count down the time changing from m+1 to m at m+½ minutes before arrival so they will display 2 min from 2m30s to 1m30s and 1 min from 1m30s to 0m30s Regards Bushy

I used SE High Speed to travel down to Kent this evening. There were several people in the coach I was in that were on the wrong half of the train, which split at Ashford. They didn't know which coach they were in. It struck me that it would be better if the PIS was different in each unit...

Some systems also log distance travelled, by measurement of wheel rotations - similar to a road vehicle odometer. London Underground use GPS on open sections distance measurement on covered lines. Regards Bushy

The GPS does sometimes lose its signal. This seemed to happen quite frequently on SET 375s when they were first introduced, particularly at the London termini. This may have been because the GPS used the receivers on the lead unit which would be covered by the overstation building at Charing...

Risk and accountability. Risk: When undertaking any risk assessment the number of people likely to be injured or killed is a factor in assessing the severity. A railway incident always has the potential to affect a larger number of people than is probable for a road collision...

If its possible, I would print off the acknowledgement or receipt from the online vendor so that you have evidence of the purchase. If I haven't had an e-mail acknowledgement, whenever I make an online purchase I always pdf the receipt so that I have a record. Regards Bushy

When 375s were first introduced on South Eastern there was often a delay opening the doors due to the GPS losing its signal. Occasionally they would have to shut the control systems down and reboot them to get the doors opened. If the on-train announcements were wrong you knew there were going...

Although not difficult, there was a knack to using the internal latches and you couldn't operate them accidentally. If you were safety concious :) you always dropped the window and leant out to check that there was nobody close to the platform edge when jumping off a moving train, opened the...

The only time I've used St.P EM I had no problem. I was on a train due in at 1705 on a week day; it came into the country end of a platform where there was already a train on the platform. I managed to get down the platform, through the barrier, down the stairs to main concourse, across the...

Corridor stock didn't have internal latches. I think that this was to prevent children opening them. Presumably it was thought that children sitting in seats were under the control of an adult; another reason you couldn't use them today. Regards Bushy

My understanding, however, is that the numbering at Ashford was changed to make it consistent with other stations and thus reduce confusion. It did take me a bit of time to get used to it though; I think it happened during the period after I had commuted to school for 7 years but before I...

But accidents did happen as a result of passengers being able to open the door while the train was moving - to get off the train half a second earlier, to board a departing train, because they didn't realise the platform was offside, or that the platform was short The risk is...

Ashford (Kent) had reversed numbering. The down side loop platform as 1 to up side loop as 4. The original station had the entrance and booking hall on the down side. Before the station bridge was rebuilt the loop platforms had been country facing bays (before my time). Presumably these would...