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A week? Are you sure - that would be 100h weeks out of 168 possible hours. Doesn’t seem right!

Yes if they are wearing a stab proof vest and “combat style” trousers. Also all those dregs of society might think twice about threatening someone like that. 1713560821 And most staff aren’t getting into a situation that would be anywhere near that confrontational.

Bear in mind most operators will have legitimate reasons to P-code a small % of trains, especially when disruption spans multiple days. This can be seen in the stats, but the whole reason the ORR even looked into it and report on it now was the gross manipulation of it by certain TOCs. The...

A southeastern REO was stabbed at Bromley South not too long ago. It’s not bonkers. The attire is similar to that of Land Sheriffs so “combat style uniform” is not quite correct but it is certainly more security-focused than standard railway attire

That seems unlikely.

No it's not obvious - the Greenford branch would run on the Relief lines and removing of HeX would open up path on the Main Lines. The only branch this might benefit is the Windsor Branch, but using a Turbo on the Mains wouldn't be a much better use of capacity. I agree with @mangyiscute that...

That is surely the driver or guard. PA to train externally by GSMR can be some at some TOCs and by signallers I believe, but only in very specific circumstances (normally with the driver's agreement / in emergency)

Think they've got a lot of that return after 30+ years. Charging a premium for rail travellers is at odds with much of Europe. At some point it becomes "national infrastructure", although I do appeciate it invested a lot into building in the first place. It's also cheeky when they're reliant on...

The airlines will align with convenient times to fly overnight with regards to timezones, which means going East you can normally fly later and instead of arriving at say 0600, it's more like 1000. And also early morning slots (i.e as soon as departures open after the curfew) are well coveted...

If you go onto Wikipedia, you can normally find every day has about 2-3 things attributed to it now. It is also apparently "World Laughter Day", "National Dolphin Day (USA)" on the 14th. ASLEF appear to have done this themselves and frankly almost nobody will care one bit.

So essentially double block working for that section?

Probably because HeX marketing is absoutely pasted across the terminals, it's pretty hard to find reference to Elizabeth line! 1713173557 The only way to do that would be remove a freight path (highly unlikely), remove another Relief line service (Thames Valley passengers will not be happy) or...

It's valid for more days which might make a difference? Also, the national fares increase during that time.

I'm fairly sure The Metropolitan link (or whatever the exact name is) has been out of action for years now.

Yes; GWR's IET fleet woes are well documented.

The trains are obviously not stopping though.

Well they’ve got at least 6tph of 9 car trains as opposed to 2-3 car Turbos rattling down the line! There’s been a lot of population change in the area though. The only way I can see which works is “fast” Elizabeth line trains from Paddington to Heathrow crossing at Ladbroke Grove which is a...

I am not but have travelled a lot on the services to & from Heathrow (albeit rarely there!), and have visibly seen loadings of Heathrow Express too arriving/departing Paddington. So yes it is mostly anecdotal, although you can very clearly tell the difference pre & post Elizabeth line...

True the H&C/Circle is of course better. Maybe they don't but passenger numbers to Heathrow overall haven't changed much, and Heathrow Connect wasn't super popular so you have to wonder where the people have transferred from. I don't think modal analysis has been done on this yet although...

Obviously each case depends. Yes I would say Euston / KGX probably have the biggest "time penalty" factor even if the Farringdon connection is pretty rapid (from St Pancras) but it all gets very maginal (minutes here or there and then depends if you just miss a train). And yes Terminal 5 is...