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Regularly opened up during service disruption.

BTP will respond between Timperley & Altrincham as that's NR metals. Also not unusual to find them down at Piccadilly metrolink, and I'd resume though don't know first hand Victoria is the same.

Not sure if Cambridge is a Sub-ROC as such, York ROC has several Sub-ROCs in it (South / Kings Cross whatever it's called this day of the week, Leeds (Former York IECC area), and Sheffield, but they're all in the same building. Sandhills was recently given signs outside which say it's a ROC.

If that is the case (And I only say that as it's not happening everywhere like that), make sure you are claiming under the 13 week rule (From date of advertisement if the post is vacant) and bypass the training grade all together.

Query this with your local RMT rep & recruitment. As far as I am aware the conditions of the Green Book (Available on the RMT website) still stand in respect to payments while training, which is generally one grade below, and the FP of the new role straight away.

Tinder is very much part of a "hookup" culture, yes people do find long term relationships on it, but so do people on Grindr.

I wonder if £2.9 million is enough to recommission Ty Croes as a block post instead of a crossing box and shorten the longest block section on the route.

If it helps mine is currently 29.58p/kWh

Erm, would you like to make a late entry in the TRB / occurrence book to make an amendment?

You'll get different opinions on this I think. From the signaling side if you've got a failure, you might talk 30 or more trains through it in a shift, but to that particular driver it's the first time in months they've been talked by. FOC drivers working engineering trains, and even more so...

No problem mate, I'm probably a bit quick to jump on these sort of things but I like to keep on top of rule based posts that might be misinterpreted by others. Out of interest have any drivers here actually been talked by under S5 Reg 7?

S5 Reg 7, brought in in 2020 allows the passing of two signals at once under very specific circumstances, and I'll be honest there's not many places you can actually do it in reality. Emergency Special Working (S5 Reg 5) has NOT replaced Temporary Block Working (S5 Reg 6), TBW still exists, and...

Llangollen going belly up wasn't related to Covid though, the place had been mismanaged long before we'd ever heard about Covid-19.

As someone who holds a Personal License for sale of alcohol and who has worked in the night club industry I'm well aware of how differing groups or people react to alcohol. My point was simply that someone deciding that an alcohol ban on the train means they'll drive doesn't have to point to...

That's a little overreaction isn't it? Now here me out as you obviously have strong views on this! If I have the choice between paying £50 - £75 for an off peak return to take me away for the weekend (Let's say out Friday evening back Sunday) or driving, driving will probably win on cost...

@43066 I would assume as someone working in the legal field you can get access to old cases and such like. In fact if you know of a way I could get hold of them to read I'd certainly be quite interested. Cattley v St John’s Ambulance 1988, Leonard v Girl Guide Association 1995, Loyley v St...

The nearer and smaller 75 sign is a repeater, and is probably there to indicate to trains leaving what I presume to be a siding on the left that the main line speed is 75. The 80 is a larger start of restriction style sign, and indicates the line speed has risen to 80. What the reason is for the...

There's a Freighliner liveried HHA or similar which ran away lying at the side of either the Cwmgwrach branch, or the Onllwyn branch (I think it's the former)

Used to be a regular thing at Cathays on the up (Toward Radyr) platform, I can't recall if it was just something that was an issue on the pacers, but the ramp barely fitted between the platform fence and the train, you had to line the door with the wheelchair in up precisely with the wider area...

COOP Bank offer two to sign for charity accounts for online payments, however I can't really recommend them. Changing signatories on the account was always extremely painful, and the online banking interface was stuck in the dark ages.