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I have a few printouts of 'humourous' log entities from way back - one which sticks in the mind concerned a power supply failure affecting the (then) fairly new Leamington Spa SSI panel, which some considered to operate 'by magic'. Said entry concluded with (in stark dot matrix all caps) "Stand...

Not necessarily. The points have reportedly been 'run through' ie a trailing movement has taken place with the points set in the wrong lie. Now set back - the points (now facing) will still be lying as previously set, or possibly not fitting up at all, depending on the type of point operating...

Simultaneous departure from 5 and arrival into 7 (or 6 for that matter), but the other way round would I suspect require crossing the Down arrival onto the Up Fast at Ardwick, while the Up departure leaves on the Down Fast and has to cross to the Up between the throat and Ardwick. The two...

I recall at the time it was reported that the improved facilities at Edge Hill, funded by Network Rail, were in lieu of (and cheaper than) a replacement set, on the basis that it improved availability by reducing the need to diagram sets to get to Longsight, which made up for the loss of 033.

Bread and Water rations for a week!

It's an Overlap, where two tension lengths, er, overlap at their ends. In direction of travel, the arrangement transfers contact to the 'incoming' wire, the two sections then run together for a short distance, before the terminating wire (apparently) rises slightly off the pantograph and out to...

That's all very well, but if you habitually travel on it you may just turn up expecting that, as the last train of the day, special efforts will be made to run it. What if people have been sold advance tickets or otherwise have reservations on it, I don't imagine AWC would be able, or even try...

Several late and cancelled trains on the Manchester route this evening, including, apparently, the last Manchester-Euston at 21:15. NRE showing shortage of traincrew as the reason. The previous 20:15 left over half an hour late, it looks like its incoming Down train was cancelled so has...

I'm sure the old BR rule book (1972 version) had a rule prohibiting trains departing early. No idea if it's still in the opaque mess that forms the current RB!

It's both, ie if the Raynes Park fault is present in the wiring, a right side failure of the repeat relay circuit sending the track circuit state to the interlocking containing the junction signal causes it to see the track circuit as 'Occupied', so it 'thinks' the train has arrived and clears...

Under normal circumstances it will never step up with the train on approach, as the junction signal doesn't step up until the train has passed the FY, so there's little harm in the step-up itself as the driver will never see it. If the Raynes Park fault is present though, there is the...

One reason could be that the same track circuit, when occupied, both releases the junction signal and replaces the signal in rear to Red (although you say the stepped up aspect is displayed for a few seconds, I've seen similar behaviour in the past but the change was much quicker). The observed...

It's been the usual practice to fit fixed lighting for several years. Depending on vintage, this may be incandescent lamps, fluorescent tube or LED, mounted on the relay rails (typically for incandescent), or in the 'roof'. The latest idea is to fit a LED 'wander lamp' which can be positioned as...

Or their employer is well aware but doesn't say anything to avoid losing business. Consider the case from several years ago where a design organisation was given a contract to carry out work on a particular and rather unusual type of relay interlocking, despite (presumably) knowing they had no...

It's possibly worth noting that the 'panel' (actually a VDU), even if it had indications, would only report the aspect based on the state of the controlling relays, since the wiring cross was between the relays and the aspect. This is different to Clapham, where the control relay (HR) was...

Network Rail are moving more towards self-assurance, no doubt under pressure to cut costs in the run up to the conversion to GBR, which has seen lots of experienced folk 'take the money and run' (and who can blame them?). The railway seems to be running out of skills which were taken for...

That makes no sense at all, and there are no 'miniature levers' in that area. What was found during the WCRM works, was that some of the Auto signals in the Down direction didn't provide full braking distance from YY to R. As this signalling dated from the original electrification around 1960...

These are 'VMS' LED signals. They do have a larger apparent aspect diameter than an old filament type head with glass lenses. I think the old lenses are about 8" diameter. Part of the apparent increase may well be because the light is evenly spread over the entire aspect as it's provided by lots...

As far as police stations go, part of the motivation may come from suggestions (from government?) some years ago that filming them, and police officers, was not permitted. There's nothing in law to prohibit such filming, despite some officers believing there is and acting to prevent innocent...

Using the bi-di, 1V58 has just gone round what is now 5C55 still sitting in Teignmouth platform. Is that the first Class 1 train to make it through to Newton Abbot since around 9am? This is going to cost someone a fortune in delay repay!