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Same as the Harlow Town crossovers. No signalled routes over them, but can be used for handsignalled/unsignalled moves or within a possession.

Down (Northbound): trains can stop and turn back at Tottenham Hale, Cheshunt, Broxbourne, Bishops Stortford and Audley End. While there are crossovers south of Harlow Town, there are no signalled moves over them to provide any kind of turnback move. Up (Southbound): trains can turn back at...

This is utter genius. The country’s energy crisis gets fixed at a stroke, by attaching Brunel’s coffin to a generator as he spins in his grave.

Any pics of diggers, yellow plant, orange army etc?

Now that daylight has reached even the darkest corners of North Yorkshire, does anyone know - was it Daisy or Bambi hit?

Leeds North-West Workstation (at York, controlling Skipton inter alia) fringes with Hellifield.

Probably waiting for the embankments to slip down to ground level, then it’s easier to build a lift or a ramp up to the newly-lowered track.

Stowmarket Control? Barriers go straight down if a train passes the protecting signal at danger? Not sure if this is applicable to any of the crossings mentioned.

Two trebuchets, two large trampolines. There’s just not enough will to think outside the box these days.

My early satnav had quite a fit when I took it on Eurostar, and it kept trying to lock on to the adjacent M2 on the Medway Viaduct.

Burn coal to generate electricity to operate pumps to drain flooded land caused by climate change unusually high rainfall. Just sayin...:)

The exam sidings (parallel to, and east of, platform 2) could also become a platform face. But that would only serve the Scarborough branch, for which platforms 2 and 4 are adequate. And it would also entail the loss of a lot of car parking space.

Excuse me while I shunt my train-of-thought down memory siding lane, specifically late 1970s, early 1980s. At the start and end of each term, my boarding school (in Shrewsbury) used to buy a group ticket for the 50 or more pupils based closer to London (or those returning to parents posted...

A day that will live in infamy? Most of the US Navy Pacific fleet sunk or damaged? Oh… POOLE not Pearl. Sorry; as you were….

When I did a 2-day signalling appreciation course in the 1990’s, I was told that the fundamental difference was that an AB signaller has a over-arching right of refusal to prevent trains being sent towards their box. Whereas a TCB signaller would have to invoke an emergency (e.g. the box to box...

Do any of the Bradford platforms ever have THREE trains in? Or is there just space for two? (Apart from platform 3 at only 100m long)

And yet, with all the barrage of announcements, it’s quite rare to be told which side of the train will be against the platform. As in ‘We are now approaching Xxx - the doors will open on the left of the train.” Easy to deduce from TD maps at stations where there’s a choice, but no PA systems...

Thanks all. I've put (birthday minus one month) in my diary. Conveniently, that's very close to the other child's (9th) birthday.

My child is currently 10 anna bit. When I set up an Oyster Photocard account, clicked on "Buy Oyster for someone else", and put in their date-of-birth, I was offered an "Age 5-10 Zip Oyster" (with a footnote to say that it expires on their next birthday). When will that change to me being...

To expand upon the Mains and Reliefs on the GW out of Paddington: There was a long closure of Paddington one Christmas all the way to New Year (1990s or early 2000s?), and all trains from the west were terminating at Ealing Broadway. The inter-city operator put their foot down with a firm...