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Cheers.

Cheers. That makes sense.

Thanks for sharing. This is very local to me but it is so much harder to make out what progress has been make from the ground. Really interesting.

I don't sign the stock but it looks like a Track Circuit Actuator hanging loose. That said, this appears be an inner bogie, not a leading one so that doesn't quite ring true.

Yes. The NSE Total Route Modernisation was based on a 75mph railway. It wasn't until the Shooter era that linespeeds started to increase.

The Chiltern 165s have the requisite brackets on both the bogies and the bodies for yaw damper fitment. However, as I understand it, they would need to have their final drives changed if they were to be modified to run at 90. I don't think the tripcocks played any part in the original 75mph...

166s have been CET-fitted from new, I thought?

It's all very well getting on a high horse about "Spanish practices" or expressing righteous indignation about the perceived unreasonableness of this issue, but it changes nothing. It is written into the current terms and conditions. Whilst that remains the case, it would be negligent of ASLEF...

We tend to sound the horn when we see stray Sainsburys carrier bags, although that's not in the rule book.

I'm a bit divided on this. It drives me mad when station staff make up their own random "rules" on photography and it keeps happening, time and time again. I was accosted at Charing Cross a couple of years ago for the heinous crime of taking a quick shot of the station clock whilst I waited for...

There is a limit as to how many 68-hauled trains are allowed to use Marylebone each day, owing to noise issues. I don't know what the exact permitted number is but it isn't much higher than the current workings allow.

The barrier is called the Department for Transport.

A DfT-mandated decision to move the 172s. Both TOCs are under DfT control and both are seen as costs by the Treasury so there is no longer any reason to make the Chiltern option competitive.

It seems the OP arrived after the dispatch window had closed, so to speak. Shouting to get the guard's attention is irrelevant. As for the laughing, that is regrettable. However, sometimes the reactions of pax who just miss a train can appear very comical from the POV of those on board the...

There may be times when sticking exactly to the rulebook or company method of work can be used to make a point, but this isn't one of them. DOO drivers are acutely aware that they are always just one step away from standing in the dock facing a manslaughter or negligence charge. The longer the...