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How dare you, sir? To the North-West (home of the quote about Football not being a matter of life and death, but much much more important than that) nothing can contribute to the industrial and commercial needs of the region more than 22 grown men chasing a ball. It’s like telling an inhabitant...

In many instances (Romford Down Main springs to mind) the loop is removed, the points are replaced by plain track, the signal is bagged, and all the Network Change procedures are carried out - but then the signal, points and tracks are still left in the interlocking, with the point detection...

And to provide a cost-effective alternative to carriage washing machines. And, as noted before, to block that pesky gap between Elizabeth Line train and platform at Ealing Broadway platform 4. And obscured signals will be a thing of the past with ETCS.

If buses can lower their air suspension to let mobility-impaired riders off and on, why not trains?

That’s the safe distance when the wires are NOT energised :rolleyes:

Another risk with ‘squeezing through’ next to derailed wagons (e.g. with a 5mph ESR) is this: there’s less certainty that the wagons will stay put when the trackbed is jostled by each passing train. When the wagons are still on the rails, it becomes easier to guarantee that they won’t move sideways.

Possibly related to Edwin's comment yesterday about staff being less familiar with unexpected/unusual occurrences; there could be a scarcity of MOMs trained to operate those crossovers.

Last night's sleepers appear to be, erm, a bit disrupted. The Up Highland Sleeper 1M16 is currently 292 mins late, and hasn't yet reached the M25 (as I write at 1213 hrs) for a booked 0800 arrival in Euston.

Agreed. The local TV coverage in the South-West last night showed the soon-to-be-ex-PM disembarking at Penzance, rather than embarking at Paddington; the latter would have given the would-be-assassins/protestors/miscreants/lobbyists (in no particular order) lots of time to plan their actions...

Gratuitous use of bagpipes is a safe bet.

If only we had a centre-of-excellence that could come into being to determine the causes of high-speed derailments, identify the underlying physics of the rail-wheel interface, and design whole new families of wheels and bogies to alter rail travel for a generation. Oh, wait. We did. It shut.

I appear to have had a lucky escape! I was to have taken that train last night, but instead went west during the afternoon/evening of the previous day (1V60 direct from Derby to Bodmin Parkway - and mirabile dictu it didn't get cancelled at Plymouth), and stayed overnight in a fixed, rather...

The link you sent was for 23rd May. Today, it left from Leeds. With me on it! Train Manager tells me that "It's going to be a fun week" - as, apart from the odd starter/terminator, Cross Country aren't serving Leeds, so the crew based there have to travel passenger on other operators'...

How long is Micklefield to Church Fenton shut for? I usually catch 1V46 (0645) from York on a Tuesday, but today it starts from Leeds, so I’ve had to get up early for 1P58 (0620) to connect.

I expect the type of plant makes a difference. If it’s a water lily….

Does the plant help to fill that tricky gap between platform and train? A solution to the Ealing Broadway problem?

"Staff Shortages"? Just employ taller staff. Or get the short ones a booster seat or similar. (This post may contain traces of not taking the problem seriously. Mea Culpa.)

Ealing Broadway is the first Elizabeth Line station to the west of the Central core that freight trains go through the platforms (on a regular basis). Does that have some bearing on the positioning of the platform? I'm not maybe as au fait as others here with the relative loading gauge of...

I’m continually impressed that the mobile phone system can cope with an entire trainload of phones being handed over from one cell to the next, and the next, at 125mph or above.

Same as the Harlow Town crossovers. No signalled routes over them, but can be used for handsignalled/unsignalled moves or within a possession.