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It won’t be much of a ‘transformation’ if the previous routines are followed. They’ve typically only done one or two units for the PR photos… then everything goes back to normal…

If you go back through DfT franchise ITTs for various TOCs, then they sometimes show a calculated standing figure for the various rolling stock in use. The caveat is that’s probably what the DfT think it should be, based on an assumed fraction of a square metre per person, rather than what the...

The regulations definitely don’t require yellow lines at all platforms. They're only explicitly required above certain speeds of passing trains, perhaps someone with access to current standards could quote the exact figures, but it’s highly likely they’re not required at Redhill. In practice...

Perhaps this could be referred to as overlapping ‘events’, ie the first event is a combination of the warning message and the fast train passing through, and the next event is the information message and the stopping train er… stopping. But how to delay the start of the second event is the...

Z is the normal prefix for LU owned/managed stations with ‘National Rail’ platforms.

Cars for export. The bodies rise up - the cars are loaded/unloaded at the end of the train of multiple 5 car sets and drive along what are basically flat trucks. Heres a video of a train being split and unloaded in Southampton eastern docks:

In railway context isn‘t IRS normally shown as IRSE, being Institute of Railway Signal Engineers?

Well typically they just don’t fit the infrastructure here, as you’re probably already aware.

No I’m saying much of the HS2 route is in both, and until they’re finished and greened up they will make the whole building site look much wider than it will be once completed. I don’t think the St Neots bypass is that good a comparator anyway, the surroundings are fairly flat.

Default announcement for any class 5 service? I remember it being used regularly at Southampton central for XC ECS coming from sidings to start northbound from platform 1. I thought they had a better announcement that could be used, along the lines of ‘please stand back etc, the next train is...

It’s not 6 lane around St Neots, and it’s not a motorway. The HS2 route as seen from above almost always includes various temporary haul roads, built to pacify local authorities at great cost, I think they hoped banning construction traffic from public roads would prevent the project starting...

I think the loss of the Sunderland extension just meant that single unit got to spend an hour or two longer at Heaton depot overnight. It was a service operating in ’marginal time’, as they say.

Newcastle‘s ‘Central Station’ was so called because it effectively replaced 3 other stations run by different companies, and I believe at the time was a fairly revolutionary idea. Old maps always showed its name as just Central Station. In the 1850s Newcastle‘s built up area was basically...

The total number of 9 car trains is only very slightly less than the original number of 225 and HST sets. The 5 cars were basically extras to allow for additional services to destinations off the ECML, such as Lincoln and Middlesbrough, and gave the option for portion working. Meanwhile the...

I’d say the junction was at Roade Station when open. The OP implied (ie Colwich) he didn’t want to include junctions at former stations. But was there a geographic junction at the other end, Hillmorton, or does it not count because lines were effectively separate all the way from Rugby?

Pirbright Junction?

Yes as was mentioned in post #4

Lindisfarne or Holy Island?

I think there’ve been a number of failed attempts to run additional small passenger craft on the Ryde route, none of them lasted more than a few months. The staff costs are always going to be high in relation to the size of the craft and its capacity, I don’t think they get away with ‘driver...

How do you do ‘effective ticket checking’ if someone simply presents a contactless card? All that happens at the moment is they check the card isn’t blacklisted. They don’t know from that where you touched in, or where you’re going? Unless you add a live national database which can find...