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I think I have heard of cases where overcrowding reduced injuries. You can't go flying and hit things if you're jammed in. Take with a shovel or two of salt - I'm rusty and was always only an amateur when it comes to rail safety.

Oh I see. So it's a platform never resorted to, but not a platform of last resort because (unless evacuating/terminating short) you can't resort to it at all.

Physically Kentish Town has four platforms, with Platform 4 I think physically accessible with only a Tensabarrier style tape across the steps down to the platform. I don't think any trains call at Platform 4 at all.

Those crossing certainly could be prosecuted, the prohibition applies and they breached it. They also certainly should be prosecuted, and you would hope that at sentencing it would be treated as professional offending, committed blatantly and intentionally to obtain an unfair advantage. As to...

I've tended to use social media, but it seems obvious now you say it to use the number. Thanks. The cables weren't an invented example so I'll give them a bell now.

One of the cables was ripped free with exposed conductors, and two more had clearly been dug out or exposed by an eroding bank, so (hopefully) not entirely normal ;) The number is usually best then?

As a non-professional (layman) how should I report things like possible faults to NR? I'm probably a hairs breadth more informed than most people (I know I don't the ELR or the mileage I'm at, for example, and that it would be better if I did know, and included it) but not really very much...

Presumably having sold you a ticket to go on the platform, they also can't do anything if you don't answer?

Thanks. My inability to distinguish a panel from a workstation may explain my rather broad idea of their size!

So it's a LV distribution panel in that part of the track that feeds 400v or 230v to signalling equipment in the area? Thanks tsr

What exactly lost power? I saw someone say it was a panel, which I always understood to be something between the size of a laptop and a car that a signaller sat and controlled the signals. Is any of that correct?

Is that normal? Is it possible to get round it with duplicate switch gear?

How does that even happen? Was there a fire?

Is this a failure of supply to the signalling from mains/DNO or within NR's distribution? Is it for the signalling centre or for signals? I suspect there is some nuance in what has already been posted that tells the answer, but I can't quite get straight what has failed.

You can make traffic orders (or notices) prohibiting pedestrian traffic in some cases, this is quite possibly such a case on paper. The problem isn't that such an order is beyond the formal extent of the powers, it is more that you are building a curfew power parliament has not seen fit to...

It is open to the highway authority (county council, unitary authority, TfL on some roads in Greater London, or the SoS on some roads, including motorways) to make give a notice "because of the likelihood of danger to the public" prohibiting or restricting traffic. This can make most of the...

It was my understanding that the purpose of the classification of trains detailed in section 6 of TW1 was to enable priority to be accorded by signallers to higher priority trains (generally lower numbers, class 373 having been added at 9 after the system was set up), hence the lowest number...

While that's the normal position, there are certain exclusion clauses etc. in the contract which limit your rights, and I think the contract may also define what you buy as the rights to travel on what services they do run. I'm apparently quite an extreme advocate of the right to contractual...

It now seems to be clear that the device didn't involve a gas cylinder, so I think this theory can be regarded as disproved. As to the number of lineside fires at one time, while it was almost certainly a coincidence, I have wondered for a while whether there was something in coordinated...

The Terrorism Act definition of terrorism is very interesting. It has been observed that it generally includes war, which is why we can use our counter terrorism powers against parties we don't like in the Syrian conflict. s. 1 (1) (b) doesn't actually have to be met in this case, as...