Recent content by rob.rjt

Interesting - when I requested the journey time data about 12 months ago under FOI, TfL rejected the request under S43(2) as it would "prejudice their commercial interests", then on review, that it would also be rejected under S31(1)(a) "prevention and detection of crime". I wonder what has...

Looking again, the peak timetable seems to be quite well managed with the extra trains. Just taking the Abbey Wood starters that call at Bond Street between 1700 and 1730 (with the pattern repeating in the next 30 minutes), you have services to Heathrow T4, Paddington, Reading (fast), Reading...

It seems like the problem is really where to slot the 2tph peak extras into the timetable. With the Readings and Maidenheads alternating every 15 minutes during the off-peak, and the seeming desire to keep close to those intervals during the peak, along with the requirement to have the Readings...

The BBC and the Standard seem to be reading very different things. The BBC makes it sound like there are extended engineering hours, whilst the Standard makes it sound like a wholescale decimation of the service. I hope the reality is more like the BBC and what @Horizon22 said, then the Standard...

Well, quite. It seems that they wanted to run through to destinations -e.g. the 0806 from Heathrow Central (https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:P08301/2024-01-22/detailed), or the similarly timed service from Maidenhead...

9H54 stuck at Farringdon westbound since 0726. TfL seem to have given up on the western end of the Lizzie line, not even running to Paddington. Nothing out of Maidenhead since scheduled 0806, which has been stopped at West Drayton since 0830.

I was quoting from the National Rail website about ticket acceptance, which may have changed by now. I am not sure if it is a headspan issue, but in this area it usually seems to be.

The thread title says it all really, but, having had enough of this now, I am prompted to ask a few questions: Is it possible for the headspans to be replaced (effectively) like for like with the portal structures seen elsewhere on the GWML, to try and avoid problems on one line taking out all...

Unless Gaelan is happy to do it, the best thing to do is probably put it into a database like Access and run queries on it that way. Took me 5 minutes, most of which was checking the syntax for the queries

I can understand the dropping of the GWR Didcot service to give some breathing space on the Down Main, but I don't get the cancellation of all the Elizabeth Line Maidenhead terminators all day. That cancellation made sense whilst the DM was closed, but for the rest of the day there didn't seem...

Interestingly, the actual letter to Network Rail (https://golive-orr.axis12.com/sites/default/files/2023-11/investigation-of-nr-wales-and-western-region-performance-2023-11-29.pdf) states that they will look into adequacy of resourcing and whether NR have been maintaining assets appropriately...

Of that I am aware. The implication I took the post before my last was that the London bound platform lift should be built and brought into operation to allow step free access to that platform. My point was that doing that would not help, as there are still steps to get to that point.

Would a lift to the London bound platform help? My recollection (and the latest Street View, which, admittedly, is from 2008), show two sets of steps joined by a ramp leading to the back entrance. Unless this has changed there is no real incentive to keep going, unless just to keep momentum on...

Prune Hill is probably the least useful to bridge - it was low enough risk that it was still an AHB until last year. When I worked in the area, I only used Prune Hill if I had was working at Royal Holloway. It also doesn't get you to the most useful of places. The main problem crossings are...

I and other people are not necessarily asking for this, more that all restrictions are easily visible and intelligible to the customer. For the example journey I picked (which was just one I found that used the particular restriction) - I should see the restrictions on the routes available...