wimbledonpete
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Deal is the only place (I think!) where class 395 Javelins are signalled by semaphores.
Probably no different than people who work on stations in shops etcIf it isn't a Compulsory Ticket Area this wouldn't be needed surely?
Thanks.
In that case, it's not just a bizarre situation but a sublime one; there's a single-track line with a single platform in a massively built-up area, but there's another platform opposite with another mode of transport there - a tram, which is something much smaller than a train - but there's a fence in the way, so, to reach this other platform, you have to exit the station, go under the bridge (which carries both lines west) and enter the station on the other side, from which you can see the platform you came from on the other side of the fence?
Patently ludicrous.
Deal is the only place (I think!) where class 395 Javelins are signalled by semaphores.
Stations which have active post boxes on the platforms (i.e. paid side) - Pangbourne up, for example. I don't know of others off-hand. Post collectors are in theory in need of tickets/permits to travel - perhaps those on the relevant rounds do have them?
Which is ironic but fortunately they don't run at high speed in that area!Deal is the only place (I think!) where class 395 Javelins are signalled by semaphores.
Other than the Grove Park to Bromley North shuttle during peak hours does any other service have a driver rostered to both ends.?
Only 24,000 passengers a year.
When the 80x’s visit the Worcester stations, or even run down to Penzance, they get a nice bit of semaphore action!On a similar theme, I should imagine Littlehampton is the only place where 700s are regularly semaphore signalled. One of the last for any GTR stock really, since the East Coastway was largely modernised.
Other than the Grove Park to Bromley North shuttle during peak hours does any other service have a driver rostered to both ends.?
Other than the Grove Park to Bromley North shuttle during peak hours does any other service have a driver rostered to both ends.?
Middlesbrough Station has a active georgian postbox on the concourse, but there are no barriers at the station.Stations which have active post boxes on the platforms (i.e. paid side) - Pangbourne up, for example. I don't know of others off-hand. Post collectors are in theory in need of tickets/permits to travel - perhaps those on the relevant rounds do have them?
Wouldn't a platform ticket do? I'd imagine that they must have some sort of long-term version of one.
Whoever collects the post from the box or delivers to retail units should be in Royal Mail uniform and have Royal Mail ID on them, it's **usually** the same person everyday too. I imagine that for the few boxes that are on the paid side of barriers it would depend on local arrangements - they may just need to be allowed through by gateline staff or have a certain type of pass to allow them through.I'm sure there will be a standing instruction to the gateline staff to allow access on production of the postbox key or similar? There must be some arrangement for deliveries to retail units on the platforms.
Masborough Loop, it is not technically closed, and has been under a T3 since 2006, that never got given back. I suppose if the FOCs demanded it, then NR would have to get it back upto standard. Because it is still part of the infrastructure, all signals on it have to be maintained.That piece of rusted track is still on the track diagrams but it has a permanent 'SHUT' in that signal birth, as seen below:
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Why doesn't that apply to the track too?Masborough Loop, it is not technically closed, and has been under a T3 since 2006, that never got given back. I suppose if the FOCs demanded it, then NR would have to get it back upto standard. Because it is still part of the infrastructure, all signals on it have to be maintained.
On the Tube, the Waterloo & City Line and (if I recall correctly) the Victoria Line.
Used to be a deliberate diagramming policy for certain services turning round at London Bridge too.
It's been cleared recently IIRC, at least some of it. It would be a good place to allow tripling for either freight or slow services to move out of the way of fast XC services, as opposed to waiting til it gets to Moorthorpe Goods Loop
Definitely Euston - I've seen the PM hop off a train and walk down the platform & into into a waiting car before.Are there any stations where road vehicles still drive onto the platforms? Euston maybe?
Are there any stations where road vehicles still drive onto the platforms? Euston maybe?
Brighton and Paddington could still receive cars into the station if some bollards were removed. Brighton still has the tarmac and road markings down!Are there any stations where road vehicles still drive onto the platforms? Euston maybe?
Arsenal on the Piccadilly Line is the same.I always thought of the Water Street entrance to Liverpool James Street as being a bit of an oddity, in it being a sloped entrance to a deep level station.
i'm sure I've heard something about it being brought back, though it's questionable what use it would have on it's own as the stoppers are over at Central at that point and most freight still on the old road. I've said for a long time that the old formations around Sheffield need reinstating as much as possible, one late train so easily knocks onto others.
Georgemas Junction (Inverness to Thurso), Bourne End (Maidenhead to Marlow), Battersby (Whitby to Middlesbrough), Carmarthen, Aldershot (Ascot to Guildford).How about all the places where trains reverse at intermediate stops which aren't junctions as such (only having two adjacent stations)?
The likes of Bere Alston, Coombe Junction Halt (a particularly odd example because most trains reverse just outside the station), Fort William... You could even include fairly major stations like Swansea in the list.
Castleford doesn't quite fit the definition (even for passenger services, it has three adjacent stations; Woodlesford, Normanton and Glasshoughton), but all trains reverse there despite the fact that the line continues to Sherburn-in-Elmet and Selby... Are there any other stations where all trains reverse/terminate despite there being an extant line that connects to open passenger stations beyond?
Same on the London Overground platform at Clapham Junction.Ellesmere Port is a bit like Castleford in that all trains reverse there except that they reverse from both directions.