Recent content by Flying_Turtle

Well... lovely discussion on ROC's and it's possible (non) redundancies, but my experience tells me that a contractor with a JCB digger can, inadvertently scupper the best laid out contingency plans to keep a modern railway running!

Still a few 1400s around. They still do some local trains in the North, shunting and some local mainline freight.

CP Lisbon fares https://www.cp.pt/passageiros/en/train-times/Prices/tickets Apart from CP IC trains to Alentejo and Algarve, the suburban passenger trains on the 25th April bridge are operated by Fertagus, which is not on the general ticketing system, apart from the pay as you go Zapping...

5-5-1-1 You either do it or not. Once you assume a compromise it is up to you to ensure that you will keep up to it unless seriously unforseen circumstances arise (that's my view) but you must be able to do it in a competent and safe maner!

If you don't complement coffee with something else in a few years you also might have esomeprazol as your best friend too! ;-)

I personally don't find it ridiculous when starting from stations and getting restrictive aspects... but then, that's just me!

i believe usually the feed has a clock interposed so you quickly realise something is not right

Some people here clearly haven t ever heard about the extraordinary feats of railway Contractors, just armed with diggers, in screwing all sorts of redundancy!

ahhh... the invisible train...

the problem is that there isn t much interest in running regularly at 320 km/h as it would mean much more significant brake wear (the main limitation for higher speeds are braking problems ).So the runs, are set for 300 kmh but trains can achieve 320 on certain stretches to recover delays...

https://apply.abellio.com/vacancies/1389/trainee_train_driver_aberdeen/?d=1

Same happened with drivers. Give a shout to the HR.

that is certainly a possibility!

The derailment clearly occurred after the points. look at the whiter ballast, which means it has been revolved by something. I know this is pretty obvious but it impresses me the short distance between the derailment and the train stopping (probably already in Emergency/ Full braking a few...

Thank you for reminding us of the drivers duties! Now, can we go back to the discussion about the report and real world facts (as opposed to how the real world should run) ?