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when they were rebuilding the WCML for electrification in the 60's, it was said (in jest) trains were signalled county to county rather than block to block!

A colleague went to a business to install some software. He found they had one tape, and overwrote it every night. No-one had verified the backup routine was actually writing anything to the tape (It was) About 1996.

and for late evening trains the station buildings are all locked up.

Yes. do they calculate the mileage to Newcastle from the south via the King Edward bridge, or through Gateshead and over the High level bridge, bearing in mind the high level bridge is an older route.

If you want station to station distances where do they measure from/to. I assume the buffers at termini, but where at New St, Crewe, Leeds, York and Waverley etc. And also a euston-glasgow train will do less distance than the distance between the bufferstops!

Just stay to enjoy and get the next train!

Ribblehead is good but garsdale is too. Gt malvern you can sip your latte while watching the trains go by. Arnside. Nice views of the Kent Estuary.

Kids want somewhere to be away from adults to hang out. Stations have places with shelter and seats and if the service is infrequent they will be undisturbed. If Europe's kids are not on stations they will have found somewhere better.

That would be a serious data breach. big fines for the data owner.

I think the only thing about there would be of concern is your debit/credit card number. At worst it would show 4***********1234. Showing a full CC number would be against credit card regulations. The format with all the '*'s is called a masked PAN (Primary Account Number). I think getting to...

There was something about Mk1 vehicles being able to be adapted to 100mph+ operation while Mk2 could not. I dont know why. The MK1 BG's (Brake gangwayed) were part of WCML 100mph fleet for quite a while till the Driving Van Trailers arrived. So maybe a couple of 110mph Mk 1's was better than...

I think someone above has alluded to sludge in the fuel tank. but there is another, thing, diesel bug. This is a microbe that lives in diesel/water liquid/liquid interface, and quickly makes a slimy sludge. Its endemic in boat fuel tanks where the fuel is often left undisturbed for long...

Some well dodgy places abroad Brussel Chapelle. Was covered in graffiti when I lived in Brussels. The Rue d'Aerschott side of Brussels Nord. Hmmm. Look on street view of you havent been there! And some of the Brussels suburban stations worried my Indian colleague. So we used the trams in the...

Ay up. This is Shipleh. Gerroff 'here fer Baildun un Bratfud. Don't go and be fergerring yer stuff.

reading is the same. the over-bridge concourse is horrid in cold weather. The escalators come in vis huge holes, bringing in horozontal rain and snow. I was there on a cold snowy day and the catering staff were huddled behind their counters in overcoats by plug in heaters. The escalators are...

More stations need a proper tea room like the one at Carnforth. Or the one at Great Malvern. Decent coffee out of a china cup and home made cake. Polystyrene cup and a pre-packed bit of fruit cake does not cut it really.

Everywhere I go I get bombarded with damn automatic blathering. The self checkouts, on trains, stations. and now buses. Nightmare.

If the IEP's have less HP/ton than HST, then they will be slower on fast straight track. Blame Newton.

One thing coming out of this thread is regular users of a station have found the wheezes to get round quickly. I think that says more about the signage than the actual station design.

not 12, I think