Disruption between Carlisle and Lockerbie - Attempted robbery of Mail train (01/08/2023)

[Trainguy34]

Except in one very specific circumstance when a train driver can use their own authority to pass a signal at danger, which is not relevant to the mail robbery incident

As said in the quote, slightly OT but what is this circumstance?

 

[bcarmicle]

As said in the quote, slightly OT but what is this circumstance?

If the controlling signal box is closed, per Rule Book GERT8000-S5.

 

[6Gman]

Scroats will always scroat - whatever "rehabilitation" largesse is bestowed upon said scrotes (financed by the long-suffering taxpayer).
The world would be a much better place without the oxygen-wasting likes of "Scroaty McScroatface" and his intellectually-challenged associates/partners in crime.

Er, isn't the word "scrote"?

Derived from scrotum.

(I note you use both forms.)

 

[Gloster]

Er, isn't the word "scrote"?

Derived from scrotum.

(I note you use both forms.)

Scrote appears to be the correct version, but I took Scroaty McScroatface to be a reference to Boaty… There are those that suggest it is a word with medieval origins and others who say that it was introduced by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais so as to avoid having to use actual expletives in Porridge. I wonder if it may have been a long forgotten word, but they rediscovered it when looking for something suitable.