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In my home town one bank went over to machines and advisers only with no cash handling. It hasn't closed yet, but it lost many account holders to other nearby banks who will handle cash. Their advice was go to the Post Office to deal with cash. With 20 minute queues already that wasn't an...

I haven't read the whole of this thread. I have more to do with my life, just a quick dip in to view what was being said. Are many of you actually supporting the railway and it's staff or just accepting what the "dear blonde leader" is spouting out? There are no "agency" or "supply staff" in...

The 26 weeks Confirmed Period Possession Plan is to allow time for the TOC's to plan their service alterations, for them to be validated and uploaded to TSDB and all the down stream systems 12 weeks before operation (Informed Traveller timescales.) OK I know Informed Traveller Timescales are...

There were two major reasons - cost and simplicity of rolling stock. No doubt dial voltage stock could have been developed in the 1960's but it would have been heavy, expensive and inefficient.

Letters for Exeter City routes date back to Exeter City Transport which was taken over by Devon General in the early 1970's It was partly to avoid duplicated route numbers.

Maybe this is an idea for a different thread, but delay attribution does show up trends, particularly when TOC's or FOC's notice a pattern of delays. Then the question to train planning / signallers/ control, do we sort the regular 5 minute delay to train 6Y00 which happens SX week after week or...

There were wheel tappers at Salisbury until the late 1980's. Latterly they were paid by Network South East so didn't "tap" the Provincial (Portsmouth - Cardiff) services. By then there was no real need and the new DMU stock was proposed which wouldn't need mid journey checks, so I guess the...

It's treated like other hazardous waste which isn't incinerated, buried deep in clay lined pits which are finally capped with semi permeable membranes (terram is one) and some metres of clay and inert waste like rubble.

When the East London Line was being rebuilt to be part of the London Overground South London Loop, there were serious problems with Japanese knot week at New Cross and New Cross Gate. At one point in the works at New Cross the roots went down three metres and were heading towards then SE...

Thanks for the info, all a bit exotic for Southampton Docks!

A friend of mine photographed these monorail vehicles from his boat earlier today. Any idea of where they were built and where they are going.? On 39 Berth where many car transporter ships berth. Cheers, neil

Just a point over train lengths. Most stations are built and signalled around the concept of 12 x 20 metre coaches. (That has applied south of the Thames since the 1930's.) With terminal stations this really restricts the profitability of charters. Many stations do not have the space for...

A little warning about "cheap overnight charging" from personal experience. ( See the post by DelW above.) Mrs R is the proud owner her third Nissan Leaf anda while back wondered if there were any packages for cheap overnight charging and we found a couple. Both gave a very low rate per kwh...

No, just no! Have you ever bothered to look how much higher voyager floors are than 158/165 units or many emu types? With the low platforms at quite a few stations along the route, the fit and able would struggle to board the trains let alone anyone with poor mobility or encumbered with...

The incident happened in an axle counter detected area. Part of the procedure for lifting a possession is a process called "line clear verification" which should take account for the lack of track circuit detection. The equipment used in each worksite is reported to be clear of the line by each...

What they are really getting upset about is staff in safety related roles being signed off as competent by someone who hasn't had formal training in the subject.

I understand that a couple of owners of rolling stock used on charter workings are starting to record "foliage strikes" with mileage, line and location to submit to their TOC's control office. Sooner or later someone will start putting in claims for repainting or re-varnishing to NWR to make...

Any termination and start back from the down platform would need a handsignalman. The trailing points are power operated and would show their detection at Basingstoke signalling centre. A safety validation of the interlocking would be required to ascertain what other restrictions would be...

All very interesting living under the flightpath into SOU. Perhaps a bit tactless to highlight the item, but the conversion work was done at Abbotsford, about 100 miles from the town of Lytton which was burnt out a couple of days ago.

Could be a tamper or other OTM stabled for use in a possession - item 365?