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I've been on Lumo: Morpeth to Edinburgh. It arrived on time, I had a seat, and it rolled in to EDB on time That is it. All you need.

Surely for an ECML operator it will be an 80X type? Even the 897?

I too am non rail and from a risk averse profession and that is a very poor design. At the very least it should change to a contact signaller prompt and an OK/Cancel option

Serious but not life threatening was the reportage yesterday.

This is a lot of chat on such ephemera as a politician's announcement.

Thank you all. The modern pantographs didn't look that tall, I guess the height of the modern trams and the pantographs add up more than I had credited. Not to mention the double deck bus question.

Might I ask a new (to me!) question. Looking at the modern trams and an old double deck tram I'd imagine (and for the time being will have to imagine) a single contact wire height would either be too high for one and too low for the other. I'm clearly wrong but for the time being going to look...

I try not to reveal my inner trainspotter with daft questions but what are wildcards? They sound a bit chancy.

BBC News says first train on Sunday 15th December, with apologies if this is well known. On Look North. BBC News

That is fair, I only ever go to the Midland Hotel and Morrisons! I realised I didn't know that much about the setup but a look on old maps (from National Library of Scotland an excellent resource on www) shows an interesting disposition of the two former stations and on the whole a good...

A real shame as a deal of Northern routes are suited to dual mode operation. Hindsight is easy of course but ordering a lot of pure diesel MUs wasn't ideal.

Apologies if asked or obvious. Transpennine are advising not to travel beyond Carlisle and Avanti Preston. I assume these are their crew changeover points.

Morecambe. Someone else will have to detail it, with the line cut back from the seafront to a much less useful location. Presumably to make room for the road to Morrisons.

We don't need new ideas. We have a project that is largely worked up and ready to build if I understand correctly. A new idea will go through the mill of proposal, consultation, outline busness case, consultation, changes, consultation, business case, consultation, detailed design and planning...

Upthread someone asks how effective sanding would have been but (with the obvious apology) I can't find a good reply. Following on from this will there be records of when the sanders were tested and is there a rule for this. A member pointed out that if prepared in a platform the sanders...

Just looking at railways round here (Norther England) I'd have thought a large proportion of risky trees, within reach of running lines, are on railway land and didn't we embark on this obvious solution a few years ago to be stopped by the chattering classes?

My extensive experience of unfilled shifts in the NHS (all the same deal, too few staff, sickness rising because of managerial conduct) is that if the local managers are bullying (and this probably is) local staff it is because they in their turn are being bullied from higher up. A fish rots...

It only changes when the crossing takes place, any reversal needs to block both main lines. Doesn't it?

Perhaps, I suppose there is no catering for that. One imagines a terse reply!

Is there an operational reason for this. Morecambe trains are often Pl2 and whichever side they reverse in needs to cross the main line at some point.