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Tree has brought down the overhead wires, I believe. Differentiates between them being EG a fault with the wires or a fault with the train causing it.

There was one at the GCR about 15 years ago. Luckily he bounced off and only had superficial injuries. There have been plenty more trips and falls etc though.

It won't be a company wide thing. What tends to happen is that the accounts team receive a report from the cash office or cash handling contractor of a batch of forced notes, usually the same type and denomination, being used in volume in a particular area and in response whilst BTP look into...

That would be my suggestion. It's not a bad walk straight up the main road, provided it isn't raining!

I don't think it is as easy as you might think - I know there is some concern already about how crowded the wiring trays are on the 170s and the main original trunk is apparently not particularly easy to access either.

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I'm sure you've said previously you can't think of anything worse than a stodgy cooked breakfast but that is certainly a thing of beauty :lol:

Overtime ban 0001 Monday 6th-2359 Saturday 11th May Strikes: C2C, GA, GTR, SE, SWR, Island Line Tuesday 7th Avanti, Chiltern, XC, EMR, GWR, WMT Wednesday 8th LNER, Northern, TPE Thursday 9th

Heritage railways are much better without the hordes of orange festooned photographers cluttering the place up for others. It was a period in time I hope is never recreated - the only ones who appear annoyed at the ending of such access are the photographers themselves!

If like most other places we actually had publicly recognisable train numbers the issue would disappear. I've never worked out why with a plethora of different train services with random stops the UK doesn't use them. If I know I want train 9076 stopping at Little Bigtown then provided you're...

It comes up as Chester and displays Manchester Victoria as a calling point. Both trains ran as booked, the Northern service leaving 2 minutes late at 1644 and the TPE at 1645.

To be fair that position goes back a long time - however there is something to be said about the changes to consumer rights on the railway that mean it is not necessarily tenable to be like that now.

EMR do compensate for a lack of first class service on board. Not sure what it is off hand, but they do do something about it.

Agreed - I think they flog the sarnies instead. But I've done a 500 odd mile round trip on XC today, out in standard and return in first and found all of the crew, regardless of job title to be superb and thoroughly enjoyed both runs - on the way out a 9 car 22x lash up and return a 5 car 221...

I suspect you've got it!

On the plus side SeatFrog is awesome if you know how to use it - £7 for a 3 hour plus journey makes using a Voyager almost bearable!

It's been like it for many years - must have been 10 years ago I had to play the pop quiz to unlock anything more substantial having been presented with my biscuits. A few minutes later I was tucking into a pizza :lol:

I would hazard a guess that they mean "room for 4 cars" and "room for 8 cars" between the already present train and the signal - the signaller reminding themselves that the platform staff have confirmed that trains of this length will fit in the available space.

I think it is inside said shed.

Reminds me of the glorious occasion I was doing 65 in lane 2 of a dual carriageway and an elderly lady trundling along at 30 with her right hand mirror folded in decided to pull out from behind a tractor she'd hitherto been following quite happily in front of me. Luckily for both of us I braked...