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Out of interest what is the despatch procedure on TGV trains operating outside of France? Do they use the same procedure when they are call at stations in other countries (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland) or is it done differently? Also what about the...

Yes it is mostly a US thing. Just like their ridiculous over the top tipping obsession. Giving gifts to flight attendants has been going on in the US for years.

I am amazed that they even allow you to purchase a ticket from Victoria coach station to Victoria railway station. It is a three minute walk. That really is a bonkers ticket. But yes i think you have probably found the cheapest one. I have searched a few other very short journeys and found...

I know someone who moved from the UK to New Zealand (he is a dual citizen of both countries) and continued as a train driver over there. He had to start from scratch again. He did over twenty years of driving trains in the UK but in New Zealand they treated him the same as someone who had never...

I have noticed more and more 377s and 387s with faulty sockets recently. I think often these things just never get reported. If it is just one socket broken (rather than an issue with the whole carriage) then it probably never gets noticed by the depot and then does not get fixed.

I am also very interested in examples of routes that have a different operator in the evenings and on weekends. I would still consider it to be jointly operated if it is the same route. If any such examples of those exist elsewhere than i would be interested to know.

They could technically send 387s to London Waterloo if the connecting lines are wired but there is not much spare capacity on the line. The line via Wokingham and Ascot and Staines is only a double tracked line. GWR have diverted to London Waterloo during engineering work before but this was via...

Another step towards making the French railways even more disjointed. I hate this Mainland European push towards tendered private contracts everywhere. TER has already been going downhill in recent years under SNCF and i doubt splitting it up even more will improve things. The better timetable...

Never understood this weird thing of giving gifts to flight attendants when boarding. You do not even know them and have not even had any service or interaction from them but are just giving them a gift straight away. Nobody would do this to staff on a bus or a train. I think giving gifts to...

They are already dual voltage. The entire fleet of 387 units were built as dual voltage units with both third rail shoes and pantographs. No modifications are required.

I have forced open the wide gateline dozens of times when my ticket has not worked and there are no staff around. I find those Steatite printers that Guards use often fail to properly encode the mag stripe and as a result those tickets often do not work the barriers. But occasionally even ones...

Jointly operated bus routes in other countries. Following on from the thread about the jointly operated 30 (Cardiff to Newport) i thought it would be interesting to see how many such routes exist in other countries. So this is bus routes that are jointly operated with different operators...

Excellent map you created there. Just two minor things that i noticed with it. Woodgrange Park should be slightly further South on your map. C2C trains pass through this station but your map makes it look like it as after the junction. South Hampstead, Kilburn High Road, Queens Park, Kensal...

I am surprised that a state owned railway company as large as Southeastern can not afford that. At neighbouring GTR they have 100% of stations on Tiger despite having double the amount of stations. It is probably just someone at Southeastern management trying to cut costs by limiting Tiger to...

There are a couple of joint municipal bus routes in the USA that still exist. • 2X (Salem to Wilsonville) OR 2 Municipal Operators: Cherriots SMART • 80X (Bellingham to Mount Vernon) WA 2 Municipal Operators: Skagit County Transit Whatcom County Transit • Coastal Link (Milford - Bridgeport -...

That is often a possibility for these types of crashes. But it was reported in the BBC that the driver had mentioned to someone at the scene that the accelerator was stuck and he could not work the brakes. So it does not sound like a medical incident to me.

A video has been posted taken by someone who was onboard. The person mentions the bus had just had a major crash and was now speeding off. So they are obviously referring to it crashing in to the traffic lights and then continuing on. So it seems everyone onboard knew something was wrong.

I highly doubt it was pedal confusion. The traffic lights it took out are on Fair Oak Road where it meets Underwood Road. The actual crash scene bridge is on Fair Oak Road halfway between Guest Road and Scotter Road. That is about a sixty to ninety second drive at normal speed or an eight to...

It is now being reported on that BBC live article that the accelerator was jammed. That makes sense as the bus took out some traffic lights quite far down the road well away from the crash scene. So it appears that it was going at speed for quite a distance. That is worrying as it is the first...

I just found this video from CFL in Luxembourg but it looks like they use similar practices to the TGV trains: If you look at both 00:40 and also 01:16 the guard turns her key to the right to close her local door and then immediately turns her key three times to the left which is presumably...