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Japanese urban trains tend to have the 'hold on' announcement before scheduled track changes.

If there is an extended shutdown for Nottingham station, EMT, XC and Northern will need to do some mid-term diversions. Matlock and Leicester EMT services run through to Beeston, and then up Lenton triangle and terminating in Bulwell, to connect to the Tram. Another train shuttling Hucknall to...

I don't live in the area any more so have no skin in the game. My thinking is this: if the Cardiff to Nottingham Trains were diverted via Castle Donnington, then the only things that would be impacted negatively would be: Direct connections to Derby and Long Eaton for stations between...

I have always thought the Cardiff - Nottingham Expresses should be diverted direct from Burton to Trent, avoiding Derby, and then have the Derby - Nottingham Service made 2tph using Crewe and Matlock services. If necessary, introducing a train shuttling between Derby and Burton, to keep...

I have always thought Stonebridge Park would be a suitable location. A station on the Tube and Overground that's not especially congested, with easy access to both the M40 and M1, and a large piece of empty land just accross the road that is crying out for redevelopment.

And people are not allowed to stand on the Maglev test runs either. Which was a dissapointment.

I'm not sure that's really fair. The main reason it is an option is because most of the lines have been built relatively recently, with through running built in at the design stage. An example of this is the Tokyu Den-en-toshi - Tokyo Metro Hanzomon - Tobu combination. It's really quite new, and...

All Urban Railway lines (including the various Metros) in Japan allow the use of smart cards (in Tokyo the two cards are Suica, run by JR, and Pasmo, run by the priavte companies) and they are completely interoperable. The lines and networks have a clear set of fares for every station pair (no...

It's worth noting that Japan is hedging its bets on their Maglev - building the basic infrastructure (tunnels, bridges, etc) so that it can be easily converted to conventional Shinkansen if they cannot get the economics of Maglev to stack up. Seems sensible, but would be a shame - their...

In Japan, for JR trains the authoritative time keeper is the pocket watch (literally an old style analogue pocket watch that the driver and guard carry) which has its own hole on the panel. I'm assuming that they are synchronised with the master clock pretty regularly. When drivers change, they...

As I understand it, at some stations, the wide disabled barriers are set so that a member of staff has to enable it when an appropraite person (for example disabled, with children or suitcases, etc) approaches. This seems especially to be the case when there is just one that does both entry and...

The seats are symetrical around the window, by design. All seats are turned at terminus stations on Shinkansen (normally automatically) so that they are facing forward. This is also the case on non-Shinkasen express trains, and has been for many years. Users can also manually rotate their seats...

This is correct. 2+2 in standard seats (reserved or unreserved) only appears on the less busy routes. The Hikari and Nozomi trains on the Tokaido Shinkansen are all 2+3. They really don't feel cramped at all because they are pretty wide, with very generous seat pitch (which also allows for...

In both cases, it will normally be quicker to take the direct train from London St Pancras via Leicester, because there is no change of train required. The class 800 'Azuma' trains made by Hitachi are not operating on the East Coast Main Line yet. 常に、両方の場合、乗り換えが必要ではないので、London Saint...

This has been mentioned for at least 10 years. It would be great if it came about, and much of the infrastucture seems to be intact. I have a nagging doubt whether there is the traffic to sustain it - although I'm sure it would be of massive benefit for Ollerton, which feels a bit unloved in...

I love Japanese trains. But I really wouldn't bother riding the Shinkansen for the short distances you mentioned. They won't get up to full speed (neither is either of them anything near to leaving the Tokyo metropolitan area), and I fear you will be very dissapointed. There is nothing to see in...

Japan, on the Shinkansen

Wouldn't the mismatch between picture and movement when accelerating and decelarating cause travelsickness?

I have had the 'pleasure' of walking through the Mumbai floods. Horrible experience. In aerosol form, must be even nicer.

Am I reading too much by cross-referencing which lines you work on...?