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There doesn’t seem to be a dedicated thread about Coronavirus and the railways. I’m interested in both the effect on the railways, and the virus itself as a passenger (if you like) aboard trains and stations. My partner has told me that her (extremely large) firm now requires all long...

Units with computers intentionally designed to respond to a power cut by requiring fitters to visit, thus shutting down large portions of the rail network for a long period of time. At least we know it’s not the Russians, they are nowhere near this successful...

And that’s only in Liverpool

More childish than funny I wonder if they will accept my avocado at St Patricks?

My trip yesterday on an ironing board really brought home the major problem with these seats. I was in an aisle seat sat next to a fairly large chap - not obese by any means but a chunky rugby player type. I literally couldn’t get on the seat - half my right butt cheek was hanging off the edge...

If they changed this message to “If you see someone behaving suspiciously at the end of a platform, go and ask if they are alright, they may be having a mental health crisis” they might actually save some lives* *or start a lot of conversations between commuters and trainspotters

The dips in passenger numbers which followed the London terror attacks suggest that quite a lot of people are indeed living in fear of terrorists. Perhaps these messages are actually a cunning way to reduce overcrowding

I don’t think anyone is suggesting it is easy, but if you are going to make perfectly sensible design decisions like maximising the size of the aisle, it is important to follow through with the consequences of that decision, like moving the heating to under the floor.

Funnily enough I find the seats on the 707s comfier. Which is of course ridiculous because they are exactly the same seats. I think it must be some kind of psychosomatic effect caused by the ultra austere colour scheme on the GTR units!

Genius solution. And the only one that actually works. Note how the driver goes past 3 progressively bigger flashing signs and that is the only thing that stops him.

Doubt it. Unless you think that people are clocking that it is a low bridge that will wreck their vehicle and going, “Oh well, at least I won’t lose my license” I think it is likely (and judging from the 11 foot 8 bridge strikes) that most of these drivers are not professional truck drivers and...

Hahaha a very amusing photograph! Though I have to admit it took me longer than it should have to notice the ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE LOW BRIDGE SIGNS. I think because they are pasted on billboards my brain just skipped over them as adverts and I suspect this is what happened to the driver. It is...

Can this thread be made sticky please

I remember some time ago an amputation at Barnt Green in similar circumstances. I think only platform edge doors would have stopped those, however. Unlikely to be fitted in the near future...

It’s a reasonable sized local hub village with plenty of new houses being built likely to be taken by families with young children (hence buggies) and quite a few older people, so this isn’t an unreasonable request. Although ramps would be more reasonable and I think there is space.

It’s depressing how often this conversation revolves around how we can make the mini humans, disabled passengers, harassed parents, or squashed commuters fit into the ever smaller spaces government permits them to inhabit rather than how we can redesign our stations and trains to make life...

There has been a welcome drop in deaths on the road. However, the KSI figure (killed and seriously injured) is higher than it was for most of the 90s. KSI includes life changing injuries. Plenty of hard work, yes, but actually very little progress, and a very different attitude overall. An...

I agree with this, but I'm not suggesting that the rail industry doesn't consider the cost of safety improvements - clearly it does. It's more a difference in mindset between road and rail. The road industry asks "How can we make things a bit safer than they are now?" The rail industry asks "How...

The difference is that the road industry accepts that there will be many thousands of deaths per year, including children, and the cost of any work to reduce this must be kept at a minimum. Whereas the rail industry starts from the belief that there should be zero deaths (including suicides) and...

Perhaps the most notable thing is how damning the report is about the whole U.K. tram industry. There is even a sideways swipe against another regulator, which must be unusual. Perhaps the beginning of the end for thinking about trams as if they were road vehicles rather than specialised trains?