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Thinking: what has not been clarified is what happened after the young lady question learnt that her intended train (2038 WMR/LN) had been cancelled - which she presumably did by seeing it so described on the indicator - that led her to to board the 2024 Avanti service. Was any information...

Looking, I see the 2 Together railcard is valid on the Caledonian Sleeper (seated accomodation only)... Southern offer it for Thameslink trains Gatwick to Bedord running through 0430... My assumption has always been that such temporal non-validity (in this case between 0430 & 0930) was always...

I think that when the TRPS took over the Talyllyn Railway, the initial service provided was the same as that provided in the immediately prior to the takeover. The classic case of a preserved railway providing 'functional' freight service was the Middleton, which did so for many years after the...

Something not mentioned before, but something I believe first used in railway refreshment facilities - before spreading everywhere - is the long bar counter: to cater for hordes of people wanting service in a short time. On the the subject of semaphores: I think the first use was in the...

Yes, what I forgot and omitted from my previous post was goods services to the City goods depots linked to the Met: Midland Railway Whitecross Street depot (between Aldersgate and Moorgate) Great Western Railway Smithfield Goods depot - underneath the Market, only for meat traffic? Access from...

Thinking, there are - it seems to me - two issues: 1) Your prize was a ticket to the 2020 festival - did you claim or receive this (before or after it was cancelled)? Or was it something you would get (for free) on turning up for it with the flag? (You should have had something in 2019 at or...

Essentially, yes. To be offered - and potentially set up - as part of the conversion process.

My own thought for this project (remove analogue telephone equipment, and so...) - certainly for some subscribers - would be an 'immobile' phone: looking like (and used as) a conventional phone, permanently plugged into the mains to keep itself charged, but connecting to the 'telephone' network...

My interpretation - looking at various maps - is that Volmerange Les Mines was always just at the end of branch of the Luxembourg network, that came across the border, and there was never a (direct) connection to rest of the French (or pre 1918, German) network - so whether it was always a...

Having looked at the Mobiliteit.lu and CFL websites, they seem to be clear that free travel ends at the border and you need to buy a ticket for travel beyond: but the tickets they quote to appear to be a bus only offering... Both Audun Le Tiche (FR) and Volmerange Les Mines (FR) appear on...

Heyday for the Widened Lines - as they were - was the late Victorian-Edwardian era. Services using them (not that I'm an expert) were - in summary: Goods: Cross London Transfer from the Midland and Great Northern to the South - in particular onto the SER (via Metropolitan Junction and London...

I don't think there is any real difference between the two in this respect: both show a 'main line' and indicate branches off it at the relevant point: without differentiating between minor branch lines and alternative main lines. And so the 'Intercity' (High Speed) branch to St Pancras is shown...

Having had a look - my first comment is that having branches off on the 'wrong' side is disconcerting. But having said that, I like the concept and general design, but I'm not sure quite what its purpose is... Essentially it doesn't really fit the railway (and services) we do have - certainly...

I recall an announcement many years ago by one of the Two Ronnies - that British Rail were replacing their current fares system - with an Unfares system. This is an example of it...

Kew Bridge to South Acton (1940 IIRC) Croxley Green Junction to Colne Junction King William Street to Borough 1900 Hounslow Town Branch 1909 Latimer Road to Uxbridge Road (now Shepherds Bush LO) 1940 Drayton Park to Finsbury Park LL (Ex GN&C) c1964 St Mary's Junction to Shadwell 1940? Uxbridge...

Tramlink points vary. Some - facing points needing to be often changed (e.g. that at Church Street) - are controlled (changed) by some sort of driver initiated beacon signal from the tram (one of the rules I think is that he has to check that the point can change safely). Trailing points, and...

The issue is probaly actually now down to frquently having 'train specific' tickets - which means you can't just whichever train you're in time for... (Which would prefer - ten minute wait if you got across in time, or the extra hassle expense of sorting things out if you didn't?

I would say that not everyone can reliably do it in two minutes (even if you can) - and would think that even five minutes is not going to be enough for everyone, all the time. (Slow walk half way along the platform, up and down in lifts: how long will that take?)

Checking the RAIB report, their summary (S23) as to why the driver did not brake correctly is and in the glossary it gives a definition which I'm not sure corresponds to what I would understand by "falling asleep".

The CPS also stated that they did have sufficient evidence to warrant a charge, i.e. enough to make a guilty verdict probable (a consideration which also applied to some of the other potential charges). Edit: checking e-mail from CPS, what they said was "The first is that the driver did not...