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As a regular GWR sufferer you may know this anyway, but unfortunately this happens a lot at Paddington. The industry data goes by occupation of signalling berths. At Paddington those leading up to the buffer stops seem to be about half a mile long. In this era the trains crawl along at an...

Hmmm. Try being a passenger on the ground experiencing this sort of thing on your regular service - admittedly into Paddington in the evening peak, but otherwise: Ontimetrains 12 Weeks 1627 Bristol Parkway-Paddington Cancelled 1 in 5 times (20%) in the last 3 months. Cancelled or over 15...

Which is, of course, a further example of how these comparisons mostly terminate at Fallacy Central. Nobody would notice if the Engineer who conceived the idea of sewage systems in the first place (and got them built) spent a day worshiping their hitherto non-existent porcelain god after a...

First, apologies that this has been covered before - I recall seeing something but can't now find it. Neither the Railuk Fares & Ticketing Guide nor the National Rail Conditions of Travel (NRCoT) provide a clear answer that I could find. The facts boil down to: i) I held a multi-day rover...

The same is true of Didcot (as in, input a journey from Didcot to Waterloo via Basingstoke and the site will offer a Z1-6 Travelcard). I've used this numerous times and never had any trouble - but then I've never had my ticket checked except at the barrier line at Waterloo and they just assume...

Re train running data on the day in question: There is some confusion in the timeline as the OP refers to a gap of 18 months between the incident and hearing more about it, but also to it happening last year. Other posters have referred to both 19/5/23 and 18/5/23, but the OP to 19/5/XX...

Thanks Yorkie. BTW, I only cited trainsplit specifically because I wouldn't bother trying to do anything remotely exotic with any of the "mainstream" vendors. Presumably they would all, at best, only offer the same routes anyway. It's for a real journey I need to make next week rather than...

Hello routeing experts. Trainsplit can be made to offer straight Shrewsbury<->Manchester returns against itineraries including: Shrewsbury->Crewe->Manchester (obvious) Shrewsbury->Chester->Knutsford->Manchester (seems reasonable) Shrewsbury->Chester->Crewe->Manchester (much further and not...

No blithering. Blethering perhaps. Principles. Attitudes. This dispute, like it or not, is a public issue. Not currently a particularly big one on the scale of issues facing the nation, but not trivial either. Public perception therefore matters, as nobody other than the public are picking up...

I don't see any way that "None of this means it makes any sense at all to have train drivers sweeping platforms, nor indeed doing anything other than driving trains for as much of their expensively remunerated time as possible" could possibly be made any clearer.

Years ago early on in my career I worked (mostly in the UK) for a large far eastern multinational. On several occasions when project cycles meant there was a lull in our usual work, they had all the younger staff* cleaning and clearing up in the labs and on the factory shop floor, plus doing...

Absolutely this. Someone who works for Tesco will have this asked of them. All the time. Right from the lowest paid employee up to the top. As is the case in every other organisation that lives or dies by its ability to persuade someone to buy its products or services for at least as much as...

No expert, but my understanding is that this is more a feature of modern types: Combustion at much higher pressures Paradoxical effects of emission control measures like Exhaust Gas Recirculation Could be a complete misunderstanding though. Google probably knows more and very likely there...

Right. This was precisely my point. 1000+ journeys up and down the same bit of line and precisely once, for no apparent reason, the train did something way outside the normal envelope of bouncy/vibratey/lurchy/noisy etc etc variability and really alarming on its own terms. I didn't think it...

If you'd prefer to postpone expiring from a heart attack, cancer or many other morbidities then the answer is - yep. For details, see: lots of complex science. That said, exactly *how* good is a less settled matter. You make a good point that if (like me and you I suspect :D) you've been...

As per other posters on this thread - it is extremely variable - and from my own experience I disagree that "fearing for your life" is hyperbolic to describe what IETs occasionally seem to do. I've traveled this line probably a thousand times over a few decades - plus the length most other UK...

I used the following last year to stop off for meetings in first Canterbury and then Dover (via Ramsgate). To the best of my understanding, Sandwich is an "either-or" around the loop (also including a double back to Ramsgate) and there are no break of journey restrictions on these tickets...

Some/more terminological exactitude is required. Dan A refers to the "Barbican EL gateline" which doesn't strictly exist. There is an EL Farringdon gateline at the Barbican end of Farringdon Station (the big sign over the door saying "Farringdon" being the literally several foot high giveaway...

Apols if this is the wrong place to note this sort of thing; mods please feel free to delete if so. Am I missing something or is the site not finding a cheaper and reasonably obvious split for the following journey...

Hmmm. Look at the IEP programme for a jaw-dropping example of what happens when a contemporary alternative approach to leasing conceived by the state is taken. [The only upside is that Hitachi are on the hook for the enormous cost of fixing the metal fatigue failures on these things] What's the...