Recent content by JN114

I was managing an incident involving their penultimate train of the night from Heathrow a few months back; the passenger count that came back from the driver, at well beyond 11pm scheduled time from Heathrow, was north of 300… The ex-Heathrow Elizabeth line train right behind it didn’t manage a...

Probably not. An additional 2-4 tph isn’t going to yield the additional revenue to make such enhancements viable; even if you could make room for them further down the line. The “commuter” runs to Bristol or Cardiff aren’t busy enough to support more trains economically; and the “leisure”...

2 extra trains per hour, those paths now used to allow the GWR semi-fasts to run on the Mains to Slough

Despite HEx’s reduced passenger numbers (which Heathrow have spent more than a decade expecting and planning for!), Elizabeth Line doesn’t have the capacity to take on all of Heathrow’s heavy rail traffic. The locals at Ealing, Southall etc are already up in arms about “their” trains being...

Discharged Aviation Fuel is significantly more dangerous than fully loaded; as with most petroleum-based commodities the vapour left behind is much worse than the relatively-difficult to ignite commodity itself.

Off West Ealing overnight there’s only the 387 for the 0712 PAD-CDF and one of the 5 sets for HEx.

If the driver is “Pass or as Ordered” then they wouldn’t have a choice. It’s work to rule, both ways, not carte Blanche to be as belligerent and disruptive as possible. Paragraph 2 answers paragraph 1. I don’t think it’s particularly appropriate to go into precise details of crew diagrams.

The diagrams are fairly simple, and won’t have been changed for ASOS as that would make them more complicated not less. One of the driver turns that covers the Maidenhead - Bourne Ends was entirely uncovered this morning. A trip each way was covered by drivers scheduled to travel passenger...

Monday was nothing to do with infra/maintenance. Tuesday was OLE damage on the Down Main at Ealing Wednesday has been OLE damage on the Down Relief near Ealing, and now a nasty points failure at Southall.

At the moment it is not in public service - all passenger trains will remain Turbo worked; likely for the majority of this year. The battery train will continue its trial work in non-passenger service; as and when the trials need to take place. That hasn’t been on Saturdays so far, but maybe...

Starting at a point approx 320m West of Reading station, the line climbs at 1 in 93 for 536m, then 1 in 730 for 548m, then descends at 1 in 85 for 611m; not including the transitions between different gradients. Total rise in track level is approx 5.75m

Probably the signaller’s shorthand for Item 86

But that’s small picture thinking - the gaps you want to slot trains into at Rugby, don’t exist further up the line where LNWR services also need to join the UF. If late 9R20 was slotted behind 1R22 out of order (and even later), then 1Y16 and 1W18 are sat on the US at Ledburn without a path...

The flighting of trains into Euston in the morning peak is deemed as critical - that’s why all AWC arrivals into Euston have a 1Rxx/9Rxx train description in ascending order. There probably are get out clauses that once a train is X minutes late the in order rule is suspended; but it is...

It was out yesterday, and is right now in Hanwell Bridge loop on its way onto the branch for today’s running.