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Wheelchair access and announcements are two very different accessibility needs. Just because one isn’t provided it shouldn’t mean that there’s no need to bother making it as accessible as possible in other ways. Wall signage is only useful if someone is able to see it, and if you can’t that’s...

Include two functions: Ask "would you like to remember this railcard for future journeys?" People may choose to use this or not, and if it's given as a tickbox they can disable it whenever they wish. When a new type of railcard is used for the first time give a prompt to save the expiry date...

If they were plastic, that is a single credit card type card that looked like this then it would have been brought online but delivered to you by post. If you can recall who purchased the railcard(s) then they may be able to log into the railcard website and retrieve evidence, or find it on...

Occasionally you might get trains diverted due to failure over the last 700 meters of the City Union by taking the Smithy Lye (single line branching off the Ayr lines to the south near West Street subway). Aside from that it's just ECS stuff.

Surprises me as I've never seen anyone else in that shop. Also surprised the bridge has made that much difference for passing trade, the bridge is still open to pedestrians/cyclists.

Is there enough space on a TVM screen (especially the older types) to have a QWERTY keyboard without compromising button size? The calibration and responsivity of them means it can often be pretty hard to select the correct letter as it is. If that's not the reasoning then I have no idea.

If it's not flashing the battery has gone flat, or has a loose connection somewhere. Should be a regular flashing pattern as well, if it's not then that possibly suggests something loose.

Hospital letters don’t always mean anything in the case of managers unwilling to exercise discretion. I ended up getting a stage for having surgery, despite telling them as soon as I’d received a date, providing the paperwork, and said manager reassuring me they envisaged no issues with my...

Just to clear up any confusion, is this what happened? - You move from address A for address B - Around a year passes - You got stopped and gave address B when asked for your details - Around 6 months passes - You move from address B for address C - Someone from address A tracks you down and...

The spray paint would be done by the tamper team rather than the lubrication department. Lots of stuff gets sprayed up to avoid it getting struck (axle counters, certain types of points etc)

The arm and trigger grids of a TPWS Overspeed installation are positioned a calculated distance from each other and from the signal so that a train which passes over them in too short a period of time is brought to a stand. As long as the train does not pass over the trigger loop before the...

Didn't get change to see it myself, but seen a post elsewhere of perhaps my favourite one yet due to flooding in Chipping Sodbury: [image description: screenshot from Traksy showing the words "SEND RNLI" in two train describer berths]

Not my area of expertise either, but as I understand it, all metal structures must be bonded to the traction return rail within a specified distance of the overhead line equipment unless adequately earthed. This is to reduce the risk of sufficient voltage being induced in the metal structure to...

Any remaining non-AC immune point operating equipment, such as the HW1000 would need replacing, although conversion to the newer HW2000 is relatively straightforward.

Wright's Coal Tar soap has gone from 125g a bar to 100g a bar, with no price change. The way they've done it is particularly sneaky, with the bar remaining the same diamensions but becoming slightly dished on the underside. As I first encountered the smaller size at the height of the summer...

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It's a bit of a clunky website, but dickthesignals has most, if not all of it.

It's just a general aide memoir to the signaller, they can use anything they find useful, or nothing at all. Most of the time they'll use something along the lines of "-LB-" for a line blockage or "-T4-" for a sidings possession (a T4 being the older name for that type of possession)...

Most likely someone called Alex has a sidings possession there. I've seen the same when I've taken line blockages before.

Back when I was at college I used to get the train from Lowestoft to Halesworth at either around 1900 or 2100 every Wednesday. There was frequently only a handful of us on there at most.