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The proposals in that article are almost certainly based on HS2 reaching north of Stafford, and as such would likely not be achievable with the current limit of Handsacre.

The parsing of the diagrams is excellent, although I'd agree with the suggestion that the extra boxes between each page are superfluous. I'd also say the search box and indexing can be tightened up, because typing a station name can return lots of pages that don't actually contain that statoin...

I have before put rubbish in the roving cleaners' carts when opportunity arises, although there's never one around when you need it and loads about when you don't... I've also asked a member of staff about bins before and he kindly took my rubbish off me to put in the staff room bin. Yes...

Not disputing any of this, but New Street should absolutely have bins on the concourses.

It's close but: - The angle is wrong (Broom Lane is near as makes no difference 90 degrees between road and railway) - The house on the corner of Broom Lane looks to be too old to have been added on to the field visible in the advert on the right hand side. - The ridge is fully wooded in the...

The ability to evacuate up to 900 people into it at literally zero notice, then rescuing them with vehicles if necessary. The vehicles are specially designed to fit 2 passing each other in the width of the tunnel with no clearance for a person to stand on the side (see ...

In short, yes. There are different costs of fuel and averaged fuel usage rates for diesel vs electric. the values used in business cases are part of the DfT's Transport Appraisal Guidance databooks and generally are issued annually, so short-term fluctuations don't affect things too much. As...

You go down a few minutes before the train is due, there's no expectation people will be held on the upper level until the platform has cleared like at termini. Why can there only be one admittance desk? Putting a 2nd desk in would increase the staffing requirement but would hardly seem to...

It can do - as it places constraints on the economies of scale for operation and maintenance. I agree that the use of Family, Class and Subclass has certainly become blurred over time in a similar way to biological classifications and linguistic definitions.

This (rather old) Google Street view image suggests so, and that you wouldn't even need to remove the retail units: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fUEzjKcgxqaQdQ7z5 Although these doors could have always been planned as a fire exit, rather than any intention to allow direct access ordinarily.

The Red Lounge has access to all platforms, but the Avanti first class lounge is in the Blue lounge. Red, Blue and Green are the 3 primary colours, I wouldn't read too much into the use of Red being linked to Virgin WC. In the same way the 'Green' lounge (P7-12 'A' end, so lots of XC and WMT...

Interesting, thanks for digging that out!

It's presumably part of the standard Level Crossing signage and there's no harm in putting it up however unlikely it is that the lights may stay on.

The Categories of a train driving licence are set down in law: The Train Driving Licences and Certificates Regulations 2010, the standards follow the legislation (as you'd expect) That document appears to no longer be available on the RDG wesbite, is it being reviewed...

This certainly matches with my experience - and not just at Stations. See queuing traffic on roads, or even waiting for shops/cafes to open.

It'll be interesting to see if, in the aftermath of disruption, signallers have to start sending out GSM-R messages to instruct all traction capable of diesel or battery power to switch over, of if there will be delays getting people going as the ECOs and the Signallers watch trains through...

Most operators should allow you to download the timetables as PDFs or similar, here's GA's page: https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/timetables

That's no different to a short-form or another unit substitution though. I specifically chose 'Or' to allow for the situation where an operator may have a very large fleet and therefore comparatively a fleet is still abnormally small even if it's in the ~15 vehicle range and therefore larger...

Adding allowances to WTT schedules can generally only be done at the WTT change dates (May and December). It would theoretically be possible to STP bid for greater allowances on an ongoing basis although as @LA50041 mentions the slots into the Thameslink Core are pretty much fixed so WTT or STP...

What's the difference to actually operating them though? If it's only seat Layouts then that's no different to giving individual units promotional livery wraps, IMO.