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This shouldn't be necessary with a friction stop, Usually friction elements* are spaced out along the rail behind the stop so that as it slides back it starts pushing more of them, increasing the retardation force in steps. However, the photos above suggest they are all between the front and...

Is this another case of intermediate bogies derailed, as at the previous Neville Hill collision where it was blamed on the coupler design?

And Swanick from Syston.

That's two Reform leaders for Wales who have faced criminal charges.

Probably due to risk of confusion with the other Harrow stations.

I would guess many who currently support Reform do so because they saw the Tory government as an abject failure, they perceived the same of the Starmer government, and thought the only remaining viable alternative couldn't really be any worse. They see Farage (like Johnson before him) as one of...

Travelled from Aberdeen to Inverness on one of these in 1979 with my long-suffering grandmother. I think it had an open buffet and it definitely had a tablet catcher.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm70d91rg7l4t?post=asset%3Abdcdcda7-2745-4fcd-b754-01d1f8360fe8#post Looks like we're doomed.

It's certainly true here and I believe it's universal, that the routers have battery backup, and if the mobile is registered with the home WiFi it will use that instead of the mobile signal. So you'd need a prolonged power cut to lose contact.

I can understand EMR Intercity being excluded - even before the latest problems it was pretty much unuseable when there were closures out of Kings Cross. And there's an arguable case to exclude Connect for the same reason and because cancelling a fully-loaded Thameslink would immediately crowd...

A landline (unless cordless) has the advantage that it is always in the same place. Also some elderly people struggle with touchscreens and the sheer complexity of mobiles. There are simpler ones (eg Doro) that have a keypad and still run apps, but I don't know how easy they would be in...

The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, was convicted of taking bribes from Russia to promote their interests, including in Ukraine. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yd878ejqko Reform did condemn his actions but it's telling that a former senior member of the party thought it...

Your new router should have a BT socket as mentioned above, and it's reasonably straightforward to disconnect the connection to the extensions from the old BT socket and connect it to the new one instead. Note however that the router takes power from a mains socket. It's supposed to have a...

Ballast dust poses a similar hazard to workers involved in track works.

It's very similar concept to what happens at airports. There are some changes I'd make to the signage at New Street, such as ensuring platform signs aren't visible in such a way that you head towards them and get to the "impenetrable glass wall". But I believe the concourse layout itself is...

I think trolley service was mentioned somewhere upthread. How does that work with a variable floor height?

I was surprised and pleased to have a member of staff walk up to me on platform 9A this afternoon to tell me my train was now going from 9B. Unfortunately it was almost impossible to hear her due to a couple of Voyagers "idling near full revs" nearby - which may be why they don't bother with...

Buying more units, adding depot capacity and perhaps some power supply strengthening, is a lot quicker and a lot cheaper than re-building Selhurst. And need doing anyway, to take advantage of whatever capacity re-building Selhurst would create!

Two useful sites where one can easily spend hours seeing what happened to disused railway lines: https://www.railmaponline.com/uk-and-irish-railways: shows pretty much every railway that ever existed, on a variety of mapping backgrounds including modern maps. https://maps.nls.uk/: has a range...

Not really relevant to a fair comparison here, as the Coal Board didn't have the equivalent of passengers, ie lots of people with no training wandering around in collieries.