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Whilst Easter and Christmas are fundamentally religious festivals I would argue that in practice in the present day they are no longer considered religious festivals but exist as a time for family to get together, decorations and lights, gifts / chocolates and so on. Without having seen what...

When are religious quotes put up on the screens at Christmas time?

It’s strange how all throughout the day Network Rail doubled down and were running with a statement that all was fine, and then changed their mind during the late evening.

Also depends on the year l suppose, if you have one of those annoying years with 14 pay days it’s probably more likely.

This is already being discussed in a thread that is over a year old, please continue any discussion here: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/new-national-rail-website.240545/

Under the relavent legislation (Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005) it is the local fire and rescue authority in almost all cases that are the enforcement authority and not the local authority nor the HSE. Local authorities only being responsible for sports grounds and the HSE being...

In my experience the fire brigade don’t seem too bothered by fire exits being blocked. My local Waitrose were blocking the fire exit (that is also a smaller exit/entrance) with all manner of things from signs, temporary barriers, benches and even on occasion physically locking the door or even...

Don't know if it's that rare; in London we get incidents like this several times a year.

There are a lot of accounts on Twitter that seem to be faking those of real companies as some sort of phishing attempt. British Airways in particular seem to be particularly affected. See some of the other replies to tweets that their legitimate account has replied to...

Within the first few years of the Greater Western franchise, a number of fares, primarily those within Devon & Cornwall, were reduced to allow them to increase regulated fares on more popular routes elsewhere by the fares cap of RPI+5%, whilst maintaining the overall RPI+1% fares basket.

You are right in that there is presently not a dispute with TfL, but this is a bit of a red herring as a TfL dispute isn't going to have a large impact on the day-to-day operation of the Underground network as most staff critical to the operation of the Underground will be on LUL contracts and...

No they haven’t. The stations still have staff rostered 24/7, except for Christmas Day and short periods where the staff may wish to take a meal break. In the instance of Wembley Central this is staffed at all times trains are running, as it is considered a sub-surface station and has minimum...

I suppose this makes sense as to an extent the police can deal with any sort of incident at an operational level. I’d personally always ask to speak to the fire brigade if sensible as they are the least busy of the three main emergency services and you’re most likely to speak to someone there...

I’m sceptical that this is the real reason. It seems commonly stated that this is the reason but it doesn’t seem to be anything official. It sounds like one of those things that enough people have said so it has become true. The purpose of Inspector Sands is a “pre alarm,” to alert staff that...

I agree, I have changed the title to better reflect the situation.

Slightly pedantic point but MTR is just a train operating company and don’t control the traction power supply on the Central Operating Section, Rail for London Infrastructure which is part of TfL have their own staff which control the power, signals and other parts of the infrastructure in the...

With lack of power and the train having started loadshedding, would the toilets still be working this far in? Thinking back to the Eurostar train stranded for several hours last week customers on board reported no toilets working.

Remember that this was an exercise on RfLI infrastructure using their rule book and operational procedures, whereas this incident and subsequent detrainments was on Network Rail infrastructure and managed by them.

This thread has temporarily been locked to prevent posting about tonight's disruption caused by failure of overhead line equipment on the GWML. This discussion was being held across multiple threads and has been consolidated into a post here...

I think what is more concerning than the fact that under 50% of people are claiming Delay Repay is how many legitimate claims are being rejected by Tocs on the first occasion. I would estimate in my albeit limited sample size that at least a third of my claims have been rejected by the Toc in...