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507/508s regularly welded themselves to the 3rd rail for hours at a time in the 90s/00s on the Ellesmere Port branch in various levels of ice

This run fast is to get the train back in the correct order towards Stratford so the train is then in the platform at Stratford at the correct time to avoid delaying other services, and on time for its return working. Generally this run fast is only done when the train is exactly one path out...

Elizabeth line platforms displays are due to be connected to Darwin soon so that info should improve. All train fleets need connecting to Darwin really. Whilst it's possible to manually change calling patterns from some controls for some fleets, the control will likely struggle to update that...

NLL ARS has no link to Trust until Luminate traffic management lands later in the year so it wouldn't have known about the new routing from the VSTP

Are you sure this is correct? Darwin takes the CIF file from capacity planning. A P coded cancellation isn't in the CIF as it's being done under control arrangements and Darwin doesn't take cancellations from TRUST. My understanding was the trains are manually cancelled in Darwin (or other...

Current agreements at least at some TOCs allow a set of legal diagrams to be created, but if the reps decide they want less work content than the proposed diagrams, they can fail to agree new rosters until such point as the number of diagrams are increased to make the work content easier...

Whilst Overground typically runs from 9/10. They can and do depart from any platform. All the DC stock is dual voltage.

It will be the odd moves to a depot off route which a driver or driver manager that's been there ages does. Although these are probably getting rarer with ROG about. Overground to Hornsey and Chiltern to Willesden have happened previously

Depends on the TOC. We're actively giving some quick fixes back to the driver without calling anyone as we don't have the time the phonecalls take. On a metro railway 2 minutes delay is 2 minutes too many!

It's a change to the timetabling data that ARS signals. The controller's are acting as timetablers based on updated information for the day. As for safety concerns, if Milton Keynes had sent through an STP amended plan for a small section of the day, would the signallers know in advance the ARS...

Original order is 14 DV units - 6 for the DC, 6 for the GOB, 1 maintenance, 1 spare

The whole of Anglia and Sussex are on 30/60 this afternoon

Clapham Junction platforms 1&2, and more unusually Dalston Junction southbound

If only! Generally it's looking at each train one by one based on which one needs looking at first. Where is it, where does it need to be next and where does its crew need to be. If it's close to the end of the day, where should it be at the end of the day, does it or the crew run any last...

But what's the value in swapping 4 x 2 cars for 4 x 2 cars and paying to modify/relivery them in the process? If Chiltern wanted to they could change the interiors of their own 172s to be 168s.