Recent content by matt_world2004

Toilets may have made the situation worse , your cutting capacity to install them and they would have quickly become overflowing in a situation where they cannot be flushed Are there driver toilets in Westbourne park sidings there are buildings there

It is likely the customer communication aspect would have been separate from that frustration , from my tfl customer service graining we were taught to avoid blaming external factors as much as possible , particularly if it was another operators services as it antagonises customers to say "its...

I wonder of future rolling stock designs should include some facility allowing them to be cabled into generators to maintain heating and lighting when OHLE is shut off. It could even be part of the ohle structure emergency cables every link span that allow the train to be in effect plugged in...

There can be derogations from working time law in emergency situations even on the railway

Over the last month or so there have been almost daily track faults on the gwml requiring speed restrictions and other mitigation measures, ot only takes one to not be discovered for their to be a serious incident

They would have known within seconds that it wasn't an incident at say West drayton , I could understand the power being off upto ealing broadway , but they should have kept the power on for as much as the GWML as possible even to allow trains to stop in platforms west of ealing broadway and to...

I thought Westbourne Park sidings could be isolated from power disruptions on the rest of the gwml to allow the core to function in a self contained manner during disruption; Seems a huge oversight if it can't.

So touch in at Hayes & Harlington before 4:30 , get an email from tfl saying they haven't been able to receive a payment . Touch out as normal . Get an email later saying payment has been accepted but often it can be hours and sometimes it messes up the touching in and touching out at...

If you touch in early in the morning.A lot of the time they do not recoeve payment in time during reconciliation and regularly temporarily block cards in that case . I regularly get notifications that my card has been decline when travelling on the 4:30a, gwr from hayes

Here are the conditions of use for duty authority cards https://www.raildeliverygroup.com/images/RST/RST_Conditions_of_Issue__and_Use_v10.pdf section 12

Duty passes are not valid on the underground (Barring some exemptions) because its not a national rail service. They are valid on all national rail services though with the appropriate duty statement I have had many incidents with tfl franchised TOCs not letting me use the facilities at...

Combination of oyster data , axle load weight and manual surveys.

TfL have paid operators for specific service enhancements before. I think it is more likely they will pay southern to restore some of their previously cut services in the morning peak than run overground services there in the peak only. The southern drivers would have the route knowledge. There...

London Bridge on thameslink is priced at the tube scale between London Bridge and Kentish town

I think it got started because photographers were repeatedly getting harassed by the police/Security in the early 2000s with spurious terrorism act claims. Then it got co opted by the conspiracists and the freemen of the land types. Photography is so ubiquitous these days that these...