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Thanks. More shunting required at Portsmouth then!

I see that the LSL-powered 'Statesman Rail' trip to Portsmouth today has been severely delayed in the Kettering area and is now over 90L. Does anyone know the problem?

NP is fine for me this morning. 1784108721 That depends on your interests. For me, it is very informative for steam (and some other) main line running background information. If steam is not your thing, then it will be of limited interest I expect.

Lots of posts about passengers - the thread is about staff.

VERY subtly!

It seems there are two threads with this title.

For fatal incidents, given the extremely low numbers involved, there is no significant trend that can be identified. The range is from 0 to 2 per year, which is too low to present any useful satistics. However, the gap from 2008 to 2020 in your table suggests that, if anything, that period is...

That is precisely what red lights and barriers down tells you, though! Sounds like he should not have been driving at all.

So it covered the whole routes from Waterloo/Victoria to at least Clapham Junction? Wow, not fun, especially in that weather.

Why? As a keen cyclist, I would avoid the dangers of that heat.

I'm afraid those figures are wildly wrong.

The press really does not (and cannot be expected to) understand the details of railway operations, but they should be expected to gain information and quotes from experts which are accurate and helpful. Good journalism depends on this. There is almost always a compromise between detailed...

Yes, and from my views of the damage on photos, I can only imagine how earlier generation stock would have fared in a 50mph impact.

I imagine another element to the recovery process today as opposed to decades ago is the need for extra care to preserve evidence which may not have been done then. Trains are much more complex and delicate in many ways now, plus there are more analysis methods available now than then. All the...

Sorry, but the train set off with the points set incorrectly, which surely should have been very clearly visible to the driver. That's what I meant by accepting the wrong road, rather than a signalled move.

While the thread ls live again, something which occurred to me is that the 810 had no yellow warning panel/cab end. I have no axe to grind about their use, but I did wonder if the maroon train was not as visible to the 360's driver. Of course, apart from the red signal, rear red lights should...

Exactly, which would be why the driver was able to a) see the wrongly-set points ahead and, b) stop. I imagine the train would have been doing under 10mph. What is baffling to me is how anyone would think that clipping the facing points as was done (i.e. to run wrong-line) was correct! I also...

That forecast was wrong the moment it was issued - Friday was never going to be anything like that hot. Looks like they had transposed Wednesday's temperature with Friday's. 1782224593 Speaking...! Interesting that today's BBC forecast for the UK hotspot of Heathrow now shows 36C on...

Absolutely - and anyone using the subway has a long walk to change platforms! 1782224392 'Monsieur Hulot's Holiday'....

However, the blades look sharp and therefore the fan doesn't appear to be on. Are the power sockets even live when the units are in service?