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    Throughput at gatelines with phone tickets compared to smart cards

    I do recall that when the Underground first introduced Oyster gatelines, a lot of Research & Development had gone into absolutely minimising processing times, as indeed had been a continuing case since magnetic "yellow tickets" first came along in the late 1960s, and which feeds through to how...
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    Fallout for rail prosecutions from Post Office scandal

    It will be notable to see what might be the longer term impact for rail from the review of individual businesses being able to make prosecutions themselves, rather than through the public prosecutor. The post office situation is comparable, it is a large national business that made the...
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    LSWR T3 4-4-0 563 has been got fully running on the Swanage Railway

    Didn't see this mentioned elsewhere, but LSWR 4-4-0 No 563 has been got fully going in steam at the Swanage Railway about six weeks ago, with a train, first time since 1945. Built in 1893, it's been around the various incarnations of the National Railway Museum, and elsewhere, in the intervening...
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    Upgrading TfL Zip Card age 5-10 to age 11-15

    Presumably comes for most London children at the 11th birthday, to get a different TfL Zip card for child fares. However I cannot see any TfL website option specifically for this upgrade linking one to the other. Is there one? I'm also wondering if TfL issue email alerts as the time approaches...
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    Train crew should be required to drive between trains rather than have taxis provided

    Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/storm-babet-disruption-saturday-21-10.256508/ One wonders why there is crew taxi positioning constantly mentioned. Every other commercial business has staff doing alternative journeys in their own cars. It's 2023, not 1923, and...
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    Could the Dartmouth Steam Railway provide locos to assist failed GWR services?

    Seems extraordinary to even think of using an IET as a rescue unit at Teignmouth. No surprise they all broke down in turn. Could the Dartmouth Steam Railway not have been asked to send one of their locomotives up?
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    If a service isn’t running due to scheduled infrastructure maintenance, should that be counted as a cancellation?

    mods note - split from this thread I gave up looking at "official" figures long ago, they are invariably bent to suit their producer. For example there was no Liz service for 4 days over last Easter holiday. Was that counted as a cancellation? No. Nor for all the strikes. Was the effect for...
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    Connection nonsenses

    In general circulation today is this piece by Simon Calder (who I understand visits here) on just-missed connections at Oxenholme, where the Avanti from London etc arrives, just as the Northern to Windermere, been sat there for the longest time, slams its doors and trundles off to Windermere...
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    Highgate station fire

    Seems to have been a substantial fire this afternoon (2 May) in the abandoned upper level station building at Highgate, Northern Line, which was on the onetime Finsbury Park to East Finchley line, rebuilt in the 1940s but never used by the Underground, which has had many an article written about...
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    Old wagon reuse

    A significant fire today in Southwold, Suffolk, showed an interesting feature. Far from the railway, an old Vanfit wagon body appears to have been in the middle of things. Seen (in better times) here...
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    Carstairs Splitting / Joining services in the BR Era

    Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/silly-question-reverse-formation.246996/ In the days when loco-hauled trains from Birmingham and Manchester to Scotland used to divide at Carstairs for Glasgow and Edinburgh, the Edinburgh portion was on the rear, just detached...
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    Onetime 2-EPB in a siding north of Stoke-on-Trent today

    Can someone please enlighten what the (apparently) old Southern electric unit, in overall blue, is, in a siding north of Stoke-on-Trent, along with a couple of current diesels.
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    Euston to Manchester fare challenge - Tuesday 7 Feb

    I want to do Euston to Manchester return next Tuesday 7 Feb. Outward definitely on the 0753, return just when done, sometime mid/late afternoon. Our corporate travel agent quoted £510, caused a certain apoplexy to our beancounters, which I soon diagnosed was a first class (not required, not...
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    South Kensington long subway - opening hours

    One just has to ask why the "Long subway" at South Kensington, running north under Exhibition Road, is closed at 10pm each evening, which is commonly just minutes before the various performances at the Albert Hall finish, with large crowds then needing to trek down Exhibition Road instead, and...
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    French steam operation in 1966

    Found on line, an extended, 18-page article from the USA "Trains" magazine of 1966, a notable description of the last years of steam there, and an interesting comparison to Dick Hardy's various books written about similar footplate runs in France in the same era. In usual USA fashion the history...
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    Three Underground depot derailments during snowfall 11 December

    Didn't seem to get mentioned here but report of three depot derailments last Sunday 11 December
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    Park Royal car accident - driver charged

    However did this happen? Crash on A40 in middle of night seems to have dropped onto the car park of the Tesla dealer, gone right across, through the fence, and down onto "the tracks", which seems to actually mean the eastbound Piccadilly Line Park Royal platform...
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    TfL Child Zip card - how many can you have per child?

    TfL have child Zip photocards for travel on their services from age 5. How many cards can you have? If held by the child that will last a few days before it is lost/forgotten. If held by parents what if both travel with the child separately - one takes to school, the other picks up. If you apply...
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    Wapping and Rotherhithe

    Just a quick question, which I couldn't answer yesterday. When were the lifts /escalators first put in at Wapping and Rotherhithe, avoiding a long wind down the spiral stairs. And given the stations were (originally) pretty much mirror images of one another, why did one get lifts and the other...
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    Drawing a train forward to disembark passengers.

    Of course, in olden times long train at a short platform would stop first with the front part of the train at the platform, passengers in/out, then pull forward for the rear part to do so. Known as Drawing Up, it was standard practice; there were specific dmu buzzer signals for it. Presumably...

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