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Although it does suggest a crime has been committed since wasting Police time can carry a sentence of up to 6 months. Since the accusation seems to have been motivated by malice that could be seen as an aggravating factor.

Don’t they have disc brakes rather than clasp brakes so you don’t get the brake blocks cleaning all the cruft off the wheel?

Looking at this as it’s a closed line maybe you need to speak to the Highways Agency, they’ve got a department dealing with the historical railway estate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRB_(Residuary)_Limited Website shows a Wikipedia page dealing with the former BRB (residuary) that dealt...

I don’t remember seeing anything to be honest. BB hotels close the reception at night and you check in through a kiosk so staff have nothing to do with it. The SOB Traverso sets used on the Voralpen Express (Luzern - St Gallen) and IR35 (Chur - Zürich- Bern over the old route) have vending...

It depends on what the vending machine is selling surely. (Photo shows a vending machine in a BB Hotel in Karlsruhe, Germany offering a selection of cold beers)

The one that comes to mind are a trip from Zürich to Rapperswil on the Stadt Zürich paddle steamer - ZSG are members of the ZVV fare system so it is included in a day pass. Stadt Zürich has part of the engine room opened up so that you can see the engines working. Other memorable ones are the...

Looking at these Stuttgart tickets the tickets that need to be stamped have an instruction “vor Fahrtantritt entwerten” (when boarding stamp the ticket. The stamps are at the entrance of the tram or bus) Single tickets don’t need to be stamped but multiple tickets and day tickets need to be...

South Croydon Swan and Sugar Loaf. The pub closed in 2010 and is now a Tesco.

Further afield Südostbahn sell Traverso beer and wine from the vending machines on the Traverso trains (copper colored FLIRTs) used on their long distance routes. (InterRegios from Bern to Chur, Zürich and Basel to Locarno over th Panoramastrecke and the Voralpenexpress from Luzern to St Gallen)...

Just to make things even better the Gotthard road tunnel was closed yesterday after concrete fell from the roof and a 25 metre crack was found. Now road transport must go via Chur using the San Bernardino road or the pass...

Looking at the Leipzig website you can buy tickets on board and the machines take cash - coins or notes up to 50 euros depending on the price of the ticket. You can also buy them at service points and there’s a list on the website...

The SBB are ahead of you here (YouTube clip from the Swiss comedy programme DeVille showing a guard making a beer check on an evening IC train)

The SBB are saying they expect reopening will not be until Jan 2024 https://news.sbb.ch/artikel/124073/e

According to the Tages Anzeiger (Zürich newspaper) the derailment took place at 100 Km/h and there is severe damage. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/das-ist-bisher-zum-zug-unfall-im-gotthard-bekannt-340133696854 Link is to the Tages Anzeiger with photos. Text is in German.

Certainly the doubled up KISSes that I see on my local SBahn line don’t seem to have much in the way of problems. Possibly too many people are standing pushed up against the doors which I tend not to see even on crush loaded stock in CH.

This isn’t just in the UK, I had a similar experience in the Netherlands, there was a swan in the four foot, the train was running at a walking pace with the driver blowing the horn until the swan finally made itself scarce. As I was going to Schiphol it was a bit concerning until a Dutch lady...

No, IIRC it was on the Heart of Gold

Possibly although the RBS units are more like baby FLIRTs with distributed traction and the pan at one end (no transformer, they run on 1250VDC - I think RhB is the only metre gauge line that runs on AC.) I think the reason the lot went over is the downside of Jacobs bogies. In something like...

That’s about the size of it. There was some pretty hairy weather in CH yesterday with gusts up to 120 km/h. Both the RBS train (Bern - Solothurn) and the ASM train (Biel - Tauffelen) are light meter gauge units and appear to just have been blown over. This is the third incident since 1996...

The SBB site shows journeys in the past and this shows that the time just changes to take account of the time change (screenshot shows extract from SBB.CH showing the SN1 from Aarau to Winterthur departing Aarau at 01:07 and arriving at Winterthur at 03:28. It departs Altstetten at 01:58 and...