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Did the GBRf locos go all the way to Austria, or did they just pick up the wagons somewhere along the route?

It's not just London. Kuala Lumpur, Los Angeles and Hong Kong have named lines too, to list just a few. While I acknowledge that letters/numbers might be slightly easier for a tourist or non-English speaker, these systems get along just fine with their names.

Surprised no-one has mentioned London Bridge platform 2 yet, this is used during the peaks for Cannon Street services, up in the mornings, down in the evenings.

This might be a stupid observation but technically speaking, aren't all terminal platforms 'bi-directional'?

All of the Elizabeth Line and Thameslink core stations are (in theory least!) bidirectional due to the in-cab signalling systems in use (CBTC and ETCS Level 2), right? I have seen a northbound train go through Platform 1 at Blackfriars before, but I suppose the positions of the crossovers mean...

Missed opportunity to refer to it as the "Mildness"

I very much agree, the Enfield/Cheshunt and Chingford services only share two stations, and at the third (Hackney Downs) they both stop but at separate platforms (most of the day anyway). At Liverpool Street you still very much have to look for a 'Weaver Line to <somewhere>' rather than just a...

The entire renaming exercise cost less than one day of revenue for London Overground, and that includes replacing some maps and other signage that would be replaced in due course anyway. Compared with the ROI of reducing passenger confusion, reducing passenger-staff interactions, speeding up...

A B23 was spotted at Straford earlier so they're definitely doing some testing. https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1iabor0/came_across_the_new_dlr_at_stratford_this_morning/

Surely stopping the HeX at Old Oak Common might actually make HeX more attractive and sustainable long term. Any passenger coming in on HS2 or the GWML would have a quicker journey if they change there. It's likely gonna be a nicer, easier change compared to Paddington.

It's under construction. The missing piece is opening imminently.

The entire signalling system is a Siemens product. They are expected to support it for its expected lifetime until replacement. There's no contract to renew for the foreseeable.

Looks like 48 hours. Apparently the service is unlikely to return to working condition today.

I don't think line names are particularly helpful for tourists if I'm honest. Perhaps better than it all just being called Overground, but a fair few times I've seen foreigners struggle to pronounce names like 'Piccadilly'. Numbers or letters are much easier, nearly every major city in Europe...

I doubt that will change, since that page always just lists disruption under each operator. Unless GBR decide to start giving the national lines names as well...

Same for Windrush in your screenshot. They seem to have followed TfL in not putting 'line' after the Overground names, only 'Elizabeth line' gets 'line'. TfL really need to sort that out, it seems weird and I know the whole thing with modes vs lines but perhaps a little more pragmatism in the...

CityMapper has been updated today. I quite like what they've done.

Ah good! Seems to be heading back West to East now. Hopefully that's a step in the right direction.

If it's the one that is currently stuck between Bond Street and Paddington showing a headcode of **** that doesn't sound hugely promising...

I believe Trainguard MT uses a combination of onboard movement sensors on the trains (wheel rotation counters, inertia sensors, etc.) combined with occasional track balises for recalibration (but not a constant series of them like on ETCS), it then sends positioning information back to the...