They are excluded from individuals' post countsI've been taking more of an interest in the General Knowledge Quiz, but note that my postings there are not included in my number of messages posted. Are quiz postings excluded from the stats Yorkie provided?
That's good to hearI came here without any particular interest in rail, just as a commuter wanting more information about my services. This site is very good for that sort of info...
Given our lead time on things like that, the pandemic would already be over.We may need to commission some forum face masks..?
Don't speak too soon, this is going to drag on and on. Every case of flu this winter will be claimed to be Covid and every incidence of respiratory infection from mask wearing will be described as Covid.Given our lead time on things like that, the pandemic would already be over.
Informing DfT of the move, and the fact that some other services may not be fully restored, Northern‘s Regional Director Chris Jackson explained that ‘it will not be possible for us to restore service levels to pre-Coivd levels for some time due to the number of colleagues who are classified as vulnerable; the amount of training still to be completed on both our new trains and the Class 769 fleet, and the natural attrition of staff.’
A general pause in staff recruitment and training from the start of lockdown, with unions having insisted that social distancing requirements preclude multiple occupancy in many train cabs, means there is a significant backlog in training at a number of TOCs. Jackson’s letter said ‘like other operators, we paused all training where social distancing could not be maintained from the start of the pandemic. This has affected our training pipeline for drivers in particular, and we are currently working with our trade union colleagues at a local level and national level to risk assess how we can safely switch this training back on.’
Concerns about the same situation affecting signalboxes have been allayed after RMT agreed to work with Network Rail in ‘an unusually close and co-operative way’ to ensure all boxes and routes have been able to remain open. As well as accepting different rostering, training and overtime allocation processes, a mutual agreement to ‘flex’ some previous agreements have allowed a number of retired signallers to come back, train and work as required.
I'm expecting the Covid sub-forum to become the main one, as it's the only show in town really.
Either that or it gets merged into the rest of the forum as the "new normal".
Of course the day that we're looking forward to is when we can tell you that we're closing down the whole section!
If only the economy was showing the same improvement. Time for a coup perhaps, security services watch out for that future forum visit to Westminster!Well, we didn't do badly at all!
We're now up to an average of 3,500 members active per day. The graph shows a big dip which has now recovered; we are not just up to the level we were before lockdown but have now exceeded it.
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One of the moderators quoted about 2,200 in a post at one point that I believe was around the peak; I don't know what the record is for most simultaneous viewings for one thread but would not be surprised if that was it.The highest I saw on the Stonehaven thread was 2,060 (739 members and 1,321 guests)