Recent content by GB

The 1600 figure includes all road deaths, including those where the at fault person has died and pedestrian vs motor vehicle accidents where the motor vehicle is not always at fault. A better question would be how many, who were at fault and survived, received a custodial sentence...and the...

Why is it anti cyclist to expect the same level of punishment for effectively the same crime? If you kill someone because you are doing something dangerous why should it be treated differently whether its a car or bike? Just because something is rare doesn't mean it should be ignored. Why would...

Stores that are open 24hrs are getting less and less. My local Tesco stopped some years ago and the local ASDA stopped being 24hrs just last week.

Yes.

With RDW overtime you can chose, but once chosen you cant change till the next contract year. Overtime above year end contract are paid the month after the contract year ends. Contract year is either January-December or June-July.

Time to dispense of the first lap leniency in my opinion, especially if it involves podium places.

Agreed Not quite that bad unless you are perhaps at a seasonal or SCO based depot which has less WTT work and more reliant on customer requirements. With a few caveats you cant be days/earlies Monday and Tuesday and then nights Wednesday and Thursday. Likewise you cant be nights Monday and...

That is the idea yes. May have different meanings in different areas in the past, but these days generally it's just an unbraked/isolated vehicle.

No you can't isolate individual boggies, you isolate the distributor (then pull the distributor chord) so it is all or nothing. Isolating brakes is easy and you will probably be taught "ric, dic, pull, kick". Isolate the reservoir (if a twin piped wagon) If it's a single piped wagon go...

Trains are not driven on line of sight and actions need to be taken well in advance. If your happy to have a significant increase in operational incidents such as over speeding and spads or have trains crawl about and massacre the timetable then have at it.

Up fast is blocked from New Southgate. So there will be delays through the day while trains squeeze through.

It turned out to be the head of a projectile rather than unxploded ordinance.

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Nice :rolleyes: