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I believe that's what "staff and ticket" used to be for too - to send several trains in a row through the single line with only one train staff, you show all drivers that you have the staff for the section, give all but the last a ticket to proceed with the words "and the staff will follow"...

Some student residences over here also use an app instead of a door key - what could possibly go wrong?

Switzerland is in Schengen, even though it's not in the EU.

I recommend the RhB for that.

Closed due to wind, rarely if ever except mountain railways (and cable cars of course). A couple of years back there was an incident near Bern when a tram-train was blown off the rails and onto its side. You do sometimes get lines closed due to risk of avalanche, especially when weather is too...

National Rail now saying tunnels closed at least until the end of today: https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disruptions/ebbsfleet-international-20231229/

This happens every day on the Zurich Stadelhofen and main station subsurface lines. I'm sure there's a careful risk assessment but it's been going for many years without incident, and it cuts half or a full minute off platform reoccupation time.

I seem to remember that the way it's done in parts of France at the moment is that a member of station staff places a portable mid-platform signal on the platform itself. This obviously has staff and time costs. Edit: here is an image, that I copied under "fair usage" rules from a post by user...

That sounds like a very reasonable suggestion! Avoids having to install separate electricity/comms infrastructure when you've already got machine with card reader and touchscreen and a way of printing receipts.

Is RingGo the one with the horrible robot on the other end that doesn't pick up your car reg number if you have a slightly foreign accent?

I'm told the problem with pay by card is the older generation of machines uses the 2G (I think) phone network which will soon be switched off. I'm sure it's possible to make a newer generation of parking meters - maybe SumUp could enter this business - but at the moment the operators can save...

Another train on the way up: https://www.instagram.com/p/CzBXVtYtT_v/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== more photos here: https://www.heavyliftnews.com/mountain-trans-castor-and-pollux-transport-new-train-in-swiss-alps/

I thought that hit a person on track is "emergency services dealing with an incident", whereas operational incident is "someone on the railway messed up" -as DelW says, overshooting a platform, but also SPAD, wrong side door release, wrong route taken, that kind of thing. (EDIT: after reading...

Agreed, up until 1F02 spotting the train ahead, there was no indication it was anything more than a reversion (at least once a SPAD was excluded). But I still wonder if the driver of 1F02 could have thought, if the signal let me into this section even though it's occupied (which should never*...

Yes, facebook, and as far as I can tell there's not even the usual "hide ads from this advertiser" button for this "campaign".