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That's an interestingly specific scam, given that 99% of people who they call won't have taken a rail journey even close to the one they're describing and so I expect would immediately be suspicious.

The slack timings allow recovery from late running, but aren't much help if something goes wrong with the stock or locomotives where a daytime operator with a bigger fleet can substitute a set, add special stop order, or accommodate passengers on a later service.

Like many operators, it goes through bad spells. But generally speaking it isn't that bad of an operation considering the ease with which their operations are disrupted, and the limited opportunities for recovery.

Not quite the same, but this goes back to the days when long-distance international calls were very expensive (pounds per minute). My parents had one friend who, when travelling, would do the opposite: place a reverse charge call from himself if he was fine and not reverse the charges if he...

I've never seen them in use, but I have seen the spigots next to fireplaces. It always seemed a little odd having, effectively, a gas fire to light your coal fire - but I guess coal was a lot cheaper than gas in pre-natural gas days.

Thank goodness that Elon and DOGE managed to find and eliminate $2tn worth of fraud, waste, and abuse in the Federal budget, and that the Republicans managed to stop Congress from passing a Big Beautiful Bill that blew the deficit up by cutting taxes for the rich and corporations.

Seems that heating a gas and compressing a gas have the same net effect. So instead of "Compress the gas and then let it cool, let the dense, cool gas absorb heat from the stuff you want to cool" it becomes "Heat the gas, then let it cool and become dense..." Let me think about that again, I...

Still relatively common in commercial settings.

The South China Sea even has one of those countries' name in it...

Okay. Let's limit the message to areas where the fire risk is elevated. This is the current fire risk map for England and Wales: Link: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/328554206f114fc98c707bfc1b880cf7 Orange: Very High Yellow: High

It's highly unlikely that your crossing the road would result in tens or hundreds of other people losing their homes or lives though, is it?

From the article you linked: Since there's still a continuous brake pipe, the system would fail safe since the brakes would still apply in the 'traditional' way as the pressure drops along the train.

Had they started twenty years ago a significant number of the fleet could already have been fitted. And I stand to be corrected, but I don't believe that every car in the consist would need to be fitted. There would still be a continuous air hose, it just means that the brake application...

There goes the "It's common sense not to have a barbeque" argument!

This delay could easily be mitigated by electronically activated brakes, but US railways have declined to move to this system as I suppose it's cheaper to pick up the occasional derailed train instead.

Depends entirely on the phone so you're best placed to look it up.

Well no. The UK government has no responsibility for wildfire prevention outside the UK. (If you're going to ask silly questions, you'll get silly answers. :|)

Just because the subscriber was located in a nice and green area today, it doesn't mean that they might not be in a dry and brown one tomorrow.

I admire your faith in humanity. Keep in mind that this might well be a limitation of the system in that both messages may have been triggered simultaneously, but took time to process. I know that when they did the initial test of the system there was a significant delay (a few minutes, IIRC)...

Yet people were still buying disposable barbeques and lighting campfires.