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This sounds like the high speed derailment near Milan a few years ago where a set of points was left set in reverse after overnight work. The main line was signalled green and the high speed train hit the reversed points at line speed and was derailed into a yard. Fortunately the passenger...

This reminds me of the "Children of the Magenta Line" concept which was a discussion that came out of the automation of processes on aircraft. Flying airliners had become progressively deskilled until the pilots were merely watching the plane follow a magenta line on a navigation screen. It also...

But presumably all of the systems <assume> that if the time of the last train has past you can't buy a ticket even if it is running late? Would be a good reason to just get on the train and try to buy a ticket from the guard.

My daughter came up against something like this at the weekend. She got to Preston station late for her train but the train was even later (10 minutes late in the end). She worries if she doesnt have a ticket but the app insisted that she could not buy a ticket for the train because it was after...

I went from Euston to Preston on Saturday evening a week ago and paid my £25 not long after leaving Euston but didn't see the train manager for the rest of the journey. A few people came in at intermediate stops and didn't pay the extra before Preston as we didn't see the train manager again...

Interesting that for someone who is going from Edinburgh to London for the day the train can win because they get to travel down on the 'Flying Scotsman' and get some work done on a fast train and then have the choice of travelling back on a plane or the train. This race for train v plane from...

One of the reasons the green double arrows look 'wrong' is because they are the wrong shape. It only takes a few moments on google to find the original specification for the arrows so I don't understand why they didn't follow it. https://www.scottbrownrigg.com/company/news/british-rail-1963-1966/

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One of the photos on the RAI site linked above seems to show the mainline turnout set for the loop. http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/media/ContentItem-088c4d1f-128f-441f-ab27-89da71307534.html#foto-39

My family traveled Preston to London at 9.58 yesterday in first. One drink, no food and no tickets checked.

Also the train would reverse at Preston so would end up in the wrong order to be split. Not sure how much of a problem that would be on the night and on following days if was a single occurance.

At 01:00 in Preston most nights will probably be a choice of a kebab or McDonalds!

I was surprised to see that they are rod shaped rather than nail shaped! Must be rammed into predrilled undersized holes. Dave

Loads of interesting drawings here: http://www.oldpway.info/opw_drawings.html Looks like they are 'spikes' to hold the chairs down. http://www.oldpway.info/drawings/1895pw_pl14_CalR.pdf If I read the drawing correctly then each chair has four 'spikes' into drilled holes or two metal spikes...

For one person travelling to work and back its going to be a difficult choice but for two or three in a car from Preston to Manchester for shopping or an evening then the car wins every time for me even with the high cost of parking. Don't forget the similarly high cost of parking at stations...