Recent content by rower40

"Staff Shortages"? Just employ taller staff. Or get the short ones a booster seat or similar. (This post may contain traces of not taking the problem seriously. Mea Culpa.)

Ealing Broadway is the first Elizabeth Line station to the west of the Central core that freight trains go through the platforms (on a regular basis). Does that have some bearing on the positioning of the platform? I'm not maybe as au fait as others here with the relative loading gauge of...

I’m continually impressed that the mobile phone system can cope with an entire trainload of phones being handed over from one cell to the next, and the next, at 125mph or above.

Same as the Harlow Town crossovers. No signalled routes over them, but can be used for handsignalled/unsignalled moves or within a possession.

Down (Northbound): trains can stop and turn back at Tottenham Hale, Cheshunt, Broxbourne, Bishops Stortford and Audley End. While there are crossovers south of Harlow Town, there are no signalled moves over them to provide any kind of turnback move. Up (Southbound): trains can turn back at...

This is utter genius. The country’s energy crisis gets fixed at a stroke, by attaching Brunel’s coffin to a generator as he spins in his grave.

Any pics of diggers, yellow plant, orange army etc?

Now that daylight has reached even the darkest corners of North Yorkshire, does anyone know - was it Daisy or Bambi hit?

Leeds North-West Workstation (at York, controlling Skipton inter alia) fringes with Hellifield.

Probably waiting for the embankments to slip down to ground level, then it’s easier to build a lift or a ramp up to the newly-lowered track.

Stowmarket Control? Barriers go straight down if a train passes the protecting signal at danger? Not sure if this is applicable to any of the crossings mentioned.

Two trebuchets, two large trampolines. There’s just not enough will to think outside the box these days.

My early satnav had quite a fit when I took it on Eurostar, and it kept trying to lock on to the adjacent M2 on the Medway Viaduct.

Burn coal to generate electricity to operate pumps to drain flooded land caused by climate change unusually high rainfall. Just sayin...:)

The exam sidings (parallel to, and east of, platform 2) could also become a platform face. But that would only serve the Scarborough branch, for which platforms 2 and 4 are adequate. And it would also entail the loss of a lot of car parking space.