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  1. DelW

    Southern main line shut Basingstoke to Farnborough

    To make it worse, something similar occurred near Guildford at around 17:00. Trains on the Direct were at a stand for about 40 minutes, with on-train announcements referring to trespassing on the tracks.
  2. DelW

    Horrendous Hull Trains East Coast ride

    Then I suggest you should quote the other person when you argue against them, not me. You put a phrase that I hadn't used in italics in a paragraph immediately below a quote from a post of mine, clearly implying that this was my view when it wasn't. I'd never made any comments about fear, and I...
  3. DelW

    Dangerous boarding procedures at Euston

    Waterloo doesn't often announce trains at the last minute. Usually they're on the screens 10 - 15 minutes before departure, and pax are allowed through even as the incoming train is arriving, without any apparent safety issues. There aren't usually cleaners operating though, and sadly no...
  4. DelW

    Blyton Road Bridge Strike

    Looks like I needn't have worried about NCE's copyright, that looks word for word the same :D
  5. DelW

    Blyton Road Bridge Strike

    If I've got the right location, I read about this recently but I can't now track down where. IIRC temporary heavy duty props have been put in place below the bridge deck, allowing the line to stay open but blocking the road. The timescale for a permanent repair is indeed several weeks. (Edit...
  6. DelW

    Supermarkets discussion

    This (in bold) is often suggested but isn't actually true. My local greengrocer's is strictly cash only - the shop has no electronics whatsoever, the scales are mechanical, the "till" is a drawer with dividers, and prices and change are calculated by mental arithmetic. You can also pick your...
  7. DelW

    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    The cold hard light of day penetrating SWR's ivory tower at long last? Presumably someone has finally realised that if you keep disposing of trains that work, and replacing them with trains that either don't work or you refuse to use, you don't end up with a working railway any more. One might...
  8. DelW

    Horrendous Hull Trains East Coast ride

    Please don't gratuitously misquote me - I haven't referred to fearing for my life, or anything remotely near it. In my first post (#10) I said "It's quite concerning at its worst." I stand by that, as a passenger it was "quite concerning" for a few moments, but I've never suggested anything more...
  9. DelW

    Train waiting for level crossing

    I don't know whether it's routine maintenance, or part of changes related to the resignalling, but Milford level crossing has been completely dug out this morning, with ballast being dug from between the sleepers as well. Photo from a little distance away as I didn't want to offend anyone...
  10. DelW

    Horrendous Hull Trains East Coast ride

    Really? I think you might need to reread your post #99, which seemed pretty judgemental in its blithe dismissal of other people's experiences.
  11. DelW

    Horrendous Hull Trains East Coast ride

    If you haven't experienced one of these episodes, why do you feel qualified to deny the experience of those who have? I've travelled around the country by train for decades, in stock from mk1s onwards, and I've encountered plenty of rough riding, bounciness and the like. But the occasions I...
  12. DelW

    Landslip at Wellington (Shropshire), Birmingham - Shrewsbury services suspended

    The BBC has a report with some additional photos of work in progress and a brief video statement from one of the project engineers: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev905nwp7xo.amp
  13. DelW

    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    In general yes, though I think some operators have shuffled 150s around a bit too. But I'm always reluctant to make too general an assertion on here, in case someone immediately pops up with a counter example that proves me wrong :lol:.
  14. DelW

    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    SWR's EMUs (and I think DMUs) are always* kept together as complete permanently-coupled sets, and always* have the same set number at each end. * although it's possible that mixed sets might occasionally be made up from e.g. vehicles from two units which have suffered accident damage.
  15. DelW

    TfW ‘Active Travel’ Class 153s

    Thanks again, I appreciate the info' even if it's still provisional for the time being. One day it will all become clear!
  16. DelW

    Freightliner 70012

    There's some discussion of couplers in the comments on YouTube, including a reference to the "draught centre" being different between US and UK. That phrase means nothing to me (and search engines get diverted away into irrelevant draught excluders and draught beer :(), but it might refer to...
  17. DelW

    TfW ‘Active Travel’ Class 153s

    Thanks for that. I'd missed any announcement of their being used on other routes, are you able to say which routes they're likely to operate on, beyond the Heart of Wales line?
  18. DelW

    Gatwick Airport station upgrade

    I was following the usage of a previous poster (since corrected), but I suspect it was the Curse of AutoCorrupt rather than a comment on anyone's naughtiness ;).
  19. DelW

    Gatwick Airport station upgrade

    I think the "naughties" is usually intended to mean the decade 2000 - 2009 ;). At least, that's what I read it as.
  20. DelW

    Supermarkets discussion

    Unfortunately so, but I've never seen any cheaper equivalents of a similar size. I used to use the little plastic measures that came free with medicines, but they're a bit fiddly since they're only about 30ml capacity and you need several fills each time.

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