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Thanks. There’ll be 2 of us travelling, I believe we can buy one multi card and share it, and can add 10 trips which will be enough (we should need 4 trips each). That’s €6.10 for the 10 trips plus €2.50 for the card itself, then 4 x €3 airport supplements. Total that would be €20.60 which is...

Hi, I’ll be in Madrid for 2 days in April. I’ve watched a few YouTube videos about the ticket arrangements and I have a question which I can’t find an answer to. When using the metro I understand the first thing to do is purchase a multi card from a machine, then add 10 ‘multibus’ journeys...

Quite. I work on the railway yet haven’t used a train in about 8 months! And that was to get from Manchester to London which, when it runs and isn’t on strike, is usually a pretty good, quick and convenient service compared to driving. Other than that I wouldn’t dream of using a train for...

Ok thanks. So on top of their management fee, which is presumably a fixed % of ticket sales or a fixed amount of money, what other opportunities do they have to make profit? It seems a little uninspiring, to me anyway, for a company to want to run a railway franchise if all they can make is a...

This is probably a really stupid question, but here goes...if TfL keep all the revenue generated by ticket sales, how does the operator make their money?

One thing to bear in mind is that if the work you are doing is for a Principal Contractor via a subcontractor, the PC will expect you to be primary sponsored by the company you are working for. For example, a Principal Contractor has some work that needs delivering. They subcontract it to a...

That isn’t a simple fix. The vegetation is clearly covering a slumped section of the earthwork which has slipped down onto the track. Assessments of the earthwork will be required to see how deep seated the failure is - there’s a good chance the failed slope and the area either side of the...

The ORR issued an improvement notice to Network Rail over lack of tactile paving following incidents like the one at Eden Park. Thats why there has been a fairly relentless campaign of installing tactiles across the country in the last 12 months. As has been suggested already in this thread...

Your point about OLE is not quite right. The majority of work on lines with OLE require the OLE to be isolated, unless the work can remain 2.75m/9ft away from the OLE. Other than surveining and work done using hand tools at track level, most other work will come within that limit. Remember, on...

Also bear in mind the EAS is not the easiest document to navigate for a novice. If you’re looking for disruptive blockades such as bank holiday weekends or Christmas, section 7 is what you want. Section 4 is standard weekend Rules of the Route, and section 5 is standard midweek Rules of the...

Manchester Picc often has trains stabled overnight, especially midweek when only a handful of the platforms are blocked under possession. Those platforms outside the possession generally have trains stabled in them.

A lot of the guys are casual workers anyway when it comes to railway piling (ie: the machine drivers, machine controllers etc). They hop from one company to another from weekend to weekend, depending where the work is.

I use Routeview on a daily basis to have a look at new sites in my workbank, look at access to them, nearest access steps, how wide the cess is for safe access, do I need a line block or possession to access the site etc etc. In some areas on the busier routes there are also “close up” images...

Blackburn? You’ve got the lines from Preston, Clitheroe, Bolton and Burnley all converging either side of the station. Also Crewe, although this is more a 6 way ‘cross’ than 4 way! Lines from Chester, Warrington (WCML), Wilmslow, Stoke, Stafford (WCML) and Nantwich all converging at either end...

Hi again. I’ve just read that Grand Central are not part of the strike, and their website says they’ll be running a normal service on 3rd June. With that in mind, does anyone know of any reason why getting to London from Brighouse to Kings X on that Saturday morning would not be viable? Thanks