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The shortfalls for 701s are nearly always on the Windsor/Reading side. So actually getting a 10 car on the mainline suburban side is pretty much a dead cert.

When things stopped being a pound (for the inevitable reason that is inflation), they lost their USP, and shoppers, rightly or wrongly, felt they were being hoodwinked. The company should have seen this coming. Why did they not adopt the Irish "Dealz" brand?

I note a couple of ex EMR class 180s were moved to Eastleigh recently. Could this be part of a plan to release the two Cl 221s from GC?

Absolutely dangerous. Not from the ability (or otherwise) of people to use the slam doors, but their utterly woeful crash worthiness.

I've been in a TG Jones today. I was surprised to find that the manky old carpet had gone, and the lighting upgraded. The Ryman's next door on the other hand was shabby and overpriced.

Can I just add that I'm finding this discussion very educational. I'd guessed that Planning and rostering involved some quite complex formulae, but the amount of variables at play here are quite mindblowing. It's a testament to the skills of all those involved that the railway even remotely...

We could compare with the Cl 700s. 8 or 12 car fixed formation.

For comparison, do you know what the availability rate is of the 450s?

It's a big debate within healthcare at the moment. The demographics of many of the patients will preclude email, but a fair amount may be able to handle texts. The trouble is that an appointment letter can sit on a coffee table as a reminder, a text message can be read and forgotten about. You'd...

We have given up sending out appointment letters in our department (NHS). Patients were missing appointments left right and centre. They all get a phone call now, which is a lot more time consuming than churning letters out, and we are discovering a lot of people don't answer calls from numbers...

Driving home from.work on Saturday along the A303 eastbound near to the Deptford Interchange (A36) I spotted some transmitter lights peeping over a hillside. I think it must have been Hannington. In the year or so I've been doing that drive I've never noticed them before.

I spend a fair amount of time in France. I don't bring much with me from the UK, but I do keep a reasonable stock of British bought Ibuprofen and Vicks Sinex. That and Lidl baked beans.

I had cause to pay in a cheque recently, took 5 days to show on my account. Am I to assume that it still requires human intervention to take this long?

I'm noticing these days, that more people are opting for close family cremations, with a memorial thanksgiving service coming a while later, when things are a little less raw. It also means more people are able to attend, as it gives increased notice to get time off work etc.

There are hundreds of community radio stations up and down the country. It would be easy for Northern to approach one, ask one of their presenters to voice the files, and get some advice on audio processing. It would likely only cost them a donation to radio station coffers.

It's been quite a while since I travelled on late evening trains (far too old for that now!), but I remember on the SW Mainline, after about 11pm John Elgar got switched off and was replaced by manual almost whispered PA announcements.

I volunteer at a community cinema. We have a bit of a steep step just after the exit. As duty manager, after the film, I will hold the exit door and say "mind the step" to everyone that leaves. I don't feel that there should be an announcement about the step in the auditorium when the film ends...

Is this really a useful figure though? What's more relevant is how many diagrams covered vs planned, there will never be 100% availability from any fleet.

I have 3 backups. One external SSD kept on a shelf above the PC, updated weekly, one at a different address, updated monthly, and one HD in a different country, in a fireproof Faraday cage box, updated once a year. I think that covers me.

One carriage stuffed and mounted possibly? They are a unique part of railway history.