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As far as I recall: Sundays outside the week, don't think there's any commitment. Standard 4 day week roster with a long weekend Friday to Tuesday every 3 weeks and a Wednesday/Thursday pair of rest days in between that. Traction is class 170. I believe New St conductor routes are Nottingham...

The main reason the Joint line passenger service has survived is to get several hundred college students every morning to/from Sleaford and the local shacks into Lincoln, and a lesser number in the opposite direction into Sleaford for schools. You'd struggle to reasonably divert them via...

On the network? It serves a comparative backwater of a passenger service on a glorified freight loop which whilst occasionally busy is hardly of network wide significance, especially now the diverted long distance services run via the avoider rather than the station.

Unfortunately unless you have a particularly detailed interest in passenger information systems which I accept is a niche interest for some folk then I'm afraid that even the people with the information are unlikely to have the foggiest idea of what you're talking about. I know what the first...

The "automatic" semaphores are not automatic in the sense of a colour light signal, they're just motor worked and can return themselves to danger when the train has passed. The signaller stills instructs them to clear, generally by working a lever, and then returns the lever after the move is...

The full size tables are unfortunately large mouldings or whatever you call them that are a one piece item - when people insist on sitting on the edge of them they eventually break in half and have to be removed. I don't think they have any more of the 170 tables in stock as they're being...

The 158s are going purple, the Angel Trains ones in particular are coming due for a periodical repaint anyway. Nobody has said otherwise as far as I know, it's been specifically stated that they're going purple internally.

Happy days. I was once drinking in a local's pub when the barman, who had been feeding the bandit next to the bar for some time, had to go and serve someone. In that short period someone else managed to win the jackpot, the resulting kerfuffle saw the barman leap clear over the bar top in order...

The old loco hauled turnaround times are certainly overkill with the 745s, it isn't like they need all the tanking etc that used to happen.

Personally I had the hope that when we upgraded from our 153s and 156s that they would just treat the AC in a sealed tube to be an essential part of the train and actually maintain it in the same way the engines and brakes are. Nah, they still kick them out all summer with the units isolated by...

If people want to volunteer then where demand is forecast to make it worthwhile why not - as long as there's no compulsion involved. The problem you can foresee already is that the first time there's an issue covering turns it'll turn into the new Sunday argument with people screaming about...

Hubberts Bridge is one I'd struggle to see ever being anything other than monitored, right on a road junction attached to the bridge over the 40 foot drain with the main road being notorious for serious accidents.

A lot of thought went into specifying the class 222s, with the benefit of experience from the the 220/1 having been in traffic. Midland Mainline were very much a service led TOC so that's what you got, but then being a tiny operation comparatively they could afford to be, they still got some...

They don't lock properly, they're a bit draughty and they don't really seem to provide much ventilation, but I suppose they don't do much harm in being there! At least one set had one or two stuck open all summer once they were opened for the inevitable broken air conditioning.

The class 345 will definitely have a sensitive edge but they're far from foolproof.

You just have both locos coupled into the formation. Of course in the UK we would just use multiple units.

The Belgians have done it for years with 2 loco hauled sets coupled and dividing later. If the train is intended to work that way I don't see why it would be an issue.

It's not a big thing, it's just a handful of extra questions on a personal track safety assessment to allow the competency file to be endorsed AC/DC. Any crews who work through that area will be competent to work over 3rd rail, though not necessarily to the extent that Southern Region or...

It all depends whether you're looking at operational productivity or financial productivity, and how much relevance you believe the latter has in terms of a public service. I think both definitions are right in their own way. A mate who spent years in senior management once pointed out to me...

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