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Dangerous Goods Train Derailment At West Ealing 05/04/24
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Yes, it is - three wheels derailing would be quite a sight! 1712342967 Who described it as a "dangerous goods train"? If it was empty...
5 Apr 2024
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Network Rail hopes staff will be 'amateur meteorologists'
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A lot of OHLE seems prone to failure, but I was thinking especially of signalling, when semaphores were robust and mechanical -...
5 Apr 2024
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Deepgreen
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Network Rail hopes staff will be 'amateur meteorologists'
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Yes, but the whole North Downs line runs from Reading eastwards, not westwards, and so away from the area of worst winds, yet the whole...
5 Apr 2024
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Deepgreen
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Network Rail hopes staff will be 'amateur meteorologists'
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Sorry, I can't find that in any posts. In any case the Atlantic is a vast area/system, and the specific impacts on the UK are only a...
5 Apr 2024
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Deepgreen
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Network Rail hopes staff will be 'amateur meteorologists'
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At Rannoch, yes, as there is a met station there (or was).
5 Apr 2024
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Deepgreen
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Network Rail hopes staff will be 'amateur meteorologists'
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Yes, but notwithstanding that, the line was completely closed for no good reason owing to a "weather precaution". The information used...
5 Apr 2024
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Deepgreen
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Network Rail hopes staff will be 'amateur meteorologists'
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However, they HAVE worsened, in frequency and severity, apart from snow-related ones, which have declined. Flooding is far worse and...
5 Apr 2024
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Deepgreen
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Network Rail hopes staff will be 'amateur meteorologists'
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What do you define as 'disasters' here? The issues that affect the railway such as landslides, trees down, OHLE down and flooding have...
4 Apr 2024
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Deepgreen
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Network Rail hopes staff will be 'amateur meteorologists'
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A recent example of the requirement to interpret weather forcasts well was when a wind storm was forecast for southern England but with...
4 Apr 2024
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Deepgreen
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Network Rail hopes staff will be 'amateur meteorologists'
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An urban myth - Michael Fish DID forecast very damaging winds but said, rightly, that it was not defined as a hurricane owing to the...
4 Apr 2024
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Deepgreen
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Landslip between Edenbridge and Tonbridge
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There have been numerous slips of various magnitudes over recent years. The line is very prone to closure for this and other reasons...
2 Apr 2024
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Deepgreen
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Had to break through unmanned barriers at Burgess hill tonight
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Reigate has this arrangement too. As is so often the case now, the procedure is simply not set out for passegers properly and clearly...
2 Apr 2024
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Deepgreen
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Landslips
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I suspect the presence of very tall trees is a problem in that they sway in windy weather and with saturated ground they more readily...
2 Apr 2024
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Deepgreen
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Will HS2 trains ever run on an Embankment?
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Yes - I wasn't really paying much attention while it was on - you're right.
1 Apr 2024
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Will HS2 trains ever run on an Embankment?
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Sounds likely. I caught snippets of Michael Portillo's latest series and he was there.
31 Mar 2024
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