Recent content by Tunnel Bore

I change there on my regular commute from Balcombe to Victoria. It's not perfect but it is a good place to change: more stairs and escalators than Three Bridges or East Croydon and boarding trains at Croydon means getting on an already busy service. It also means I can change on to GatEx which I...

Kuala Lumpur Sentral

I agree strongly that the service recovery plans are poor, even counterproductive. Making trains skip stops in the peak flow direction so that they are on time for a lightly load counter flow return is senseless. Tipping people out when terminating short causes further delay and bags of...

I'm almost there figuring out the ways to change between platforms for the various versions of my commute. There are two pairs of escalators between the new concourse and 5&6. The northern pair are both up. The southern pair are one up and one down. There is also a set of stairs between the...

We need to remember the difference between power and tractive effort (or torque). While accelerating there is a large torque developed by the traction motors and large current in the motors but that is fed via some power electronics (inverter etc) which draws a different current from the supply...

Without the brackets, High Street (Glasgow) would be a ‘mare.

I've seen this too and it's not as daft as it might at first seem. In other countries I've used paper card tickets with RFID embedded in them. The gates with QR reader, paper ticket read and smart-card reader can be confusing for the unfamiliar. There is so much going on and the tendency will be...

doesnt really need confirming but it was back sidings this morning.

I think some of those extended to Gatwick and Three Bridges and they used class 508 stock. I used change onto one sometimes for the last bit of my commute just for the variety of it.

Three Bridges to East Grinstead (Worth Way) and thence East Grinstead to Groombridge (Forrest Way)

All those Kv in place of kV are making my eyes hurt.

Victoria Cafe in Terminus Place (outside the mainline station in other words) is a traditional cafe, with fry-ups and mugs of tea, and it opens at 6am.

I know you're teasing but now I fancy and inter-city trip from Mansion House to Westminster on the District Line.

I've wonder about this: the occasional Gat Ex is routed into platforms 15-19 (and balancing service departs from there of course). Is this just written off as foregone income by GTR? If it wasn't planned but for operational convenience on the day, does Nr have to compensation for lost income...

The doors would "bang" alarmingly if passing another train at speed in a tunnel when they were on Thameslink. Don't remember may cancellations in service from door issues. Happened a lot with the early introduction of 442s on GatEx. I think there is some art to setting up the interlocks on...