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Northbound Thameslink trains are still doing 100mph past the footbridge circled in red on this map, and southbound have just reached 100mph by this point. Full speed for Thameslink trains in other words!

That Tik - Tok video... That just undermines every other train driver in the whole world. Whether they manually drive or 'operate' under ATO. With regard to falling standards at London Underground, I have witnessed a Train Operator in the centre window of an arriving train, with back facing the...

Chartered Intitute of Railway Operators maybe? https://www.ciro.org/become-a-member/ You can join as an Affiliate Member as GTR (along with most TOCs and FOCs) are Corporate members, so there isn't a membership fee until higher levels of membership.

Totally agree. I think the unions are hankering after the idealism of nationalisation under a Labour government- and will be disappointed. And will be even more so whenever the Conservatives eventually get back in. Having said that, the previous franchising system was at an end anyway.

Yes, Voyagers (and Meridians) are very inefficient space wise. The main reason is the end coaches (particularly on a 4 car train!) have the front third unavailable for passenger use. I understand that this was because of a ruling or standards set, about trains over 100mph, which came in after...

We are now in the realms of a 110mph class 350-esque type train, boosted to 115mph (nearest 5 mph) or 118mph. Seems do-able and realistic to me.

@43066 12 hour movement. Yes, I used to think that, but there was this post from a while ago: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/lner-or-northern.259627/#post-6555642 I had misremembered seeing this post as 2 hours, and have edited my post to show 3.

There's an old one here: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/lner-driver-shift-pattern.207078/#post-4692702 That should give you some idea. It looks similar to that now, and to my eyes looks difficult to do any swaps to a certain shift as some weeks have 2 rest days, some 3, some 4, and some...

Bus hit the railway bridge at Norwood Junction. Whole top deck off! Luckily, although perhaps worryingly, it's a training bus (!) not in passenger service.

Shepreth has both in the Up direction!

https://www.derby.gov.uk/transport-and-streets/transport-policy/transforming-cities-fund/about-the-transforming-cities-fund/ Demand Resposive Transport to Rolls Royce factory, Bombardier, and Pride Park. That'll be a waste of money like all these schemes are then?

East Midlands Trains claimed they 'saved' £1,000,000 on abolishing Midland Mainline's free tea and coffee upon taking over the franchise. However, typically passengers would spend on a chocolate bar / sandwich / pack of crisps, once lured to the buffet car, or asked, "anything else from the...

221s even heavier with all the tilting equipment, and use even more dirty diesel fuel. 220s and 221s stink of cooking toilets (exhaust pipe stack runs next to toilet retention tank), so if I was a new company starting up a service I'd steer well clear. 222s are a good train and do not have this...

With the seats from the 3 cars left over? Now left as empty shells?!

Seconded! An excellent book, covering social history of ordinary people in both world wars, history of some of the south London tramways, technical descriptions of how electric trams worked, and the emergence of trade unions to represent the working class are covered as well. All wrapped up...