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There are still quite a few ex-British Rail IT staff working at Worldline and Atos. The history is mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sema_Group Basically the IT function of British Rail (BRBS - British Rail Business Systems) was privatised in 1997 and sold to Sema Group. Sema was...

The cancellation code was X4 which means 'because of a blanket speed restriction due to extreme heat or high winds'. The description seen on systems such as RTT doesn't mention the bit about high winds.

Unit numbers and headcodes: Also 1404 Newton Heath - Crewe 150146 5Z25 https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K06170/2020-02-22/detailed

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906 is still at Crewe. 910 came back yesterday (5E17 18:00 Crewe Works - Neville Hill) and is in traffic today on the Leeds-Knottingley circuit (next working is 2A16 1440 Knottingley-Leeds).

158790.

158903 returned to Neville Hill on 08/01/2020. 906 and 910 are still shown at Crewe.

Unit numbers added below.

TRUST showed the westbound service (1R78) having a unit swap at Nottingham from a 158 to a 156+153+153. Someone needs to get a grip of these dumbed down public explanations (or at least use the right ones) as the wording is often very poor and just makes the industry look stupid. I seem to...

For journeys to London the northern half of HS2 surely isn't much use without the southern half because once the HS2 trains reach the southern end of the HS2 line somewhere in the Midlands they have nowhere to go except onto the already congested West Coast Main Line. Where would the WCML paths...

It’s fine, don’t worry about it = It could not possibly get any worse, I will never, ever forget this. Perfect = Well that’s that ruined then. Honestly, it doesn’t matter = Nothing has ever mattered more than this. I might join you later = I’m not leaving the house today unless it’s on fire...

Only 195101 is out. 1E60 1124 Chester-Leeds 1J19 1412 Leeds-Man Vic 1J18 1556 Man Vic-Leeds 1D76 1742 Leeds-Chester 1E78 2020 Chester-Leeds

1G07 = 385014 1Y85 = 385023 2Y49 = 385042 1Y93 = 385035 2Y65 = Not currently allocated

I believe it's all about whether or not there's discrimination. If a train has a PRM toilet and a non-PRM toilet and the latter fails then there is no discrimination because everyone (wheelchair users included) can access the PRM toilet. If however the PRM toilet fails leaving only the non-PRM...