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It's not common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, but what has been said does suggest that the government intends to introduce a system in which the public sector does more of the work of the railway, and the private sector does less. Most of the things the...

railmiles is using the Moorthorpe-Fitzwilliam-Doncaster-Saxilby route, but reverses at South Kirkby Junction instead of going all the way to Fitzwilliam. It doesn't follow the rules in the routeing guide. The 00430 route code doesn't require you to use LNER, but most of the ticket codes which...

If they want the station file in the routeing data to reflect the modern fare groups, I suppose another way of solving the problem is to add Pontefract Baghill to the "new station" file. It wouldn't be the oldest station there. For what it's worth, one journey which had mapped routes according...

Sadly, the National Rail site only offers delays of an extra 30, 60, 90 or 120 minutes, none of which are any good for this purpose.

Some changes were made to the routeing guide yesterday, as follows: Changes from 13 May 2020 (305) to 24 Jun 2020 (306). Easement changes: Removed: 700883 (Map) During engineering works on Sunday 16 February 2020, Cross Country services will be diverted between Reading and Southampton via...

You'd actually need a couple of restrictions. One to force it to use a Leeds-Ilkley train ("avoid Shipley" would give you this on LNER). The other is to force it to give a longer wait than you need. There isn't a valid connection between the 18:33 to Leeds and the 21:03 to Ilkley, as you...

Do you have a source for that? The European CDC data presented here doesn't back this (rather weak) claim up. Using today's figures, Sweden has had 5549.213 cases per million overall, and 500.333 deaths. The UK has had 627.994 deaths per million, but only 4482.971 cases. Around 18 people per...

Looking at the government's Covid-19 strategy, there's a committee (the Joint Biosecurity Centre) who advise the CMOs, who then advise the ministers. I don't know if the CMOs are supposed to have any say in what the alert level actually is.

The study behind the article is about "super-spreading events" (and for SARS, at that), rather than the individuals involved. Given this, the answer can only be in terms of putting an infected person into a situation where it's easy to catch the disease. The way it suggests to control this is...

You would use the measures we are currently using to prevent people from travelling, a mixture of education and enforcement. If you used a system like Spain, people would not be permitted to travel from one area to another (whatever that would mean here) until every area reached the final stage...

I would say that the Newton-le-Willows station in Newton-le-Willows effectively has 1 train an hour because the TPE ones take around 20 minutes, and the Northern ones 40. They have to be close together at one end to avoid the TPE catching up. By contrast, the Earlestown station has two fairly...

I've just checked, and the ORR's station usage estimate for 2014-15 (published on 15/12/2015) uses ANY. It's ANZ in more recent editions, so maybe it took them a bit longer to update their own system. How did they accommodate stations where the first letter doesn't match the one used on (for...

Flows are defined by origin, destination and route code (as well as some other things such as validity date which aren't relevant here). What TfW have done here is to create some flows which comprise only of "under 11/under 16" fares. From what I can see, they have created a number of "via...

Sorry, I should have said that "Birkenhead" doesn't appear on any of the signs for the station. You should be able to make out one of the platform-side signs in the top picture in the Wikipedia page. Thanks. I haven't been to Maesteg, so I was going by a couple of pictures on the Internet...

139 years, according to Wikipedia. It changed in 1992. There are some other stations where not all of the letters in the CRS code appear in the station name (as shown on trackside signs). Some other stations use "X" to represent the word "Cross": Hunts Cross (HNX) Kirby Cross (KBX) London...

Does anyone know if Network Rail or the DfT (or anyone in the industry, for that matter) uses these categories for anything? I had a look at the Northern franchise agreement. It does have something in it to say the franchisee should ensure that each station has specific facilities. The...

No it doesn't. From the description of that table you quoted (I haven't been able to find a source for the table itself), it just compares how many people were killed or injured on each part of the network. If you made the same sort of calculation, you may well find that OHLE network in Essex...

I don't think they're in a position of looking for candidates yet. The RSSB know that overhead electrification is very expensive (not least because of their safety requirements). They don't yet know if third rail electrification would also be very expensive, if it was installed according to...

There's another thread on here where people are talking about how the NHS is not coping with the level of infection the UK is experiencing at the moment. If a doctor recommends that someone should have chemotherapy, the NHS should be able to provide it for them, and in a safe environment. If...

The "Fflecsi" trial (which started on 18th May) involves replacing buses in part of an urban area with demand-responsive transport. That may be what you think of when you read that tickets may need to be pre-booked. Personally, I was thinking of something more like National Express. The quote...