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No, that's the passenger who assaulted a female guard, who I linked to in a reply as an example of the opposite type of offence (passenger against staff). 1713606201 For the England Premier League, VAR was introduced for the 2019-2020 season; he was convicted in relation to the smashed TV in...

You get parents of schoolkids going on the pitch and assaulting the actual referee because he (or she!) made a decision that they didn't like; perhaps because it went against their little diddums. My brother-in-law has given up refereeing under 12s mostly because of the parents. 1713605490 Like...

I didn't see that. I am wondering if there are mental health issues? Although the behaviour does sound like straightfoward blokey toxic masculinity, and if we start locking all those cases up (which I'd support), there wouldn't be enough jail places. And many of the police would have to be...

Yes, it's a disgraceful offence. As for his job, it's surely gross misconduct; he was in a position of trust wearing his employer's uniform. I see he was said to be 'suspended' - you'd expect dismissal would be automatic now he's been convicted and sentenced. Happily, offences (of all kinds)...

Yes. It's understood, I think, that most non-Underground third-rail EMUs have a DC bus line linking all the shoes withing that unit. Where you seemed to be in doubt was whether that bus was continued between coupled units, via jumpers at the cab ends. The last widely used EMUs to have this were...

I am pretty certain that EMU inter-unit power jumpers have not been a thing since Southern Railway days and shortly after; the 4-SUBs had them. A few of the very early SR-style first 4-EPBs in 1951 were built with them, but they were removed and no more built with them fitted.

I do know that some French locos had two available ratios for the the traction motor gearing - freight and passenger. Switchover could only be done at a standstill, by moving a lever on each bogie.

Well played! :D Point absolutely taken. A very good demo of Muphry's Law? I see you managed not to fall foul of Skitt's Law.

Sorry, I was not as clear as I could have been. I know exactly where Stewarts Lane is (with a 's'), and have done for over 60 years. I was, I suppose clumsily, trying to draw attention to the label 'Stewart Lane Interlocking' (without an 's') which I could see on the National Rail diagram...

I ask this every now and then: where is 'Stewart Lane'?

The IRA left a bomb in the front basket of a bicycle in Coventry on 14 August 1939, which killed 5 people and injured 70.

A frequent thought of mine in 1970 aged 17.

The Herne Hill-Tulse Hill spur ran on an embankment immediately behind my childhood home from 1952-1971. When I was quite small, steam locos hauling summer inter-regional trains used to often slip to a stand right behind us. Great fun. The usual remedy was to couple an EMU on the back, and we'd...

We lived at Herne Hill. My mother used to commute to Victoria to work in Gorringes (department store), my father to his job managing the West End area of the London Electricity Board, and me in my first job, in the Civil Service at Curzon Street House (before MI5 moved in!).

Having ridden on them aged 8 I can confirm that.

Some of us do get (irrationally?) annoyed about those Ps that intrude into 'Plumpstead', 'Sampson (and Delilah)' etc. If it's any consolation, I (a South Londoner) did once have to ask someone from Boreham Wood (yes, two words) how to pronounce 'Bengeo' (I thought it had a 'g' like 'bingo'). I...

To do with diversions because of construction at Old Oak Common? Waterloo & Euston were mentioned in a Railway Hub interview with Mark Hopwood in November 2023. Euston, he says, is the preferred option, being half an hour quicker from Acton. Also he talks about improving access from the West...

I'm sure I read that those bogies gave good riding qualities if they, and the track over which they run, are maintained properly.

Wrong Section Division! Wall of Death.

I'm in the SUB club (1969)