What percentage of drivers sign the joint line? I know it is a drop of water in the Ocean but some of the Lincoln - London services got caught up which could have gone via Sleaford. But of course if the drivers don't sign it they can't.
I seem to remember that locals became suspicious of men removing rails for scrap from a freight line in Tyneside and called the Police on the grounds that they were working too hard to be rail industry employees.
LNER going to get anything away to Edinburgh still tonight then?
Have you heard the story of Cleckheaton? The only railway station to have been stolen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleckheaton_Central_railway_station
The plan looks to be to run the 1900 with additional calls basically everywhere (Peterborough, Grantham, Newark, Retford, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham, Newcastle, Morpeth, Alnmouth, Berwick, Dunbar, Edinburgh).
Do they have a 20-car set spare to cope with the demand for that?
It's managed to get underway at 1910, at least!Do they have a 20-car set spare to cope with the demand for that?
1S31 the 1900
That’s been ongoing since about 1400, it is why Avanti declined ticket acceptance for ECML customers, initially while the impact of the dewirement was fully understood.
Endangering the railway? Anyway, you need to catch them first.
Not always the case around Newark. There are those that may not have such robust procedures when someone arrives with scrap items. Just saying.
At one time, you'd only see orange hi Viz on the railway, and yellow on roads. Then both were very common.
Certainly would. I guess though, you could have less points, except in station, or junction areas.
At one time, the railway used to spray the cable with smart water, so you could tell who had handled it. There were supposed to be regular checks on the scrap merchants to see if they were handling any unauthorised materials and ensure all transactions were traceable (not in cash) LOL. Then the thieves would set fire to the cable to burn off the rubber sheath. Seems a lot of effort to me, as the amount of copper seems small with all the rubber insulation. I guess, at one time, it was just British Rail employed staff with track access. Now, all sorts of companies with agency staff
Indeed! I was there too, having arrived from Meadowhall on the Huddersfield stopper, I thought I might just get the 1732 EMR service to Derby but we were held at Nunnery for 5 minutes so no chance of that, perhaps just as well!
Lineside signalling in this area is best part of 50 years old and will be copper power cables and multicores it wasn't covered in smart water then.
Because anything wrong with the signalling system is always "a fault with the signalling system". The public are dumb (allegedly).
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