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Please explain how its Northerns fault that the new trains were delivered late so Northern couldnt train any drivers, then once deliveries started they were basically flooded with new trains but couldnt release enough drivers or instructors to play catch up? They can only release a few drivers at a time to train so once the program got behind it stayed behind which was the main cause for services operated by the new trains being cancelled due to lack of available driver, which means there was a driver but he/she hadnt been able to be released to learn the new trains yet!

They failed miserably at Clapham jn SWML Fast lines then then because if my train was stopped at the 4 car mark on the Down Fast I could put my hand out the cab window (just my hand and not my wrist or any part of my arm) and my fingers would be touching the coach stationary on the Up fast, my hands are quite small for a bloke.

The way I look at it, if it isnt anyone elses job then its the MOMs job.

Its 'nearly' Essex which is close enough!

Happened at Basingstoke where a freightliner was routed from the Down Reading onto the Down slow but the platform end signal was red, end result was the freightliner blocking all 4 lines until the signal cleared to put it across onto the Down Fast, I assume there was a fault which prevented it continuing on the Down Slow as intended.

Yes they are, but when the DaFT accept bid which require enhancements Network Rail know absolutely nothing about who is at fault? The problem is nobody is willing to say where the problem lies (DaFT) because you dont bite the hand that feeds you!

You could always tell the good or bad locos by how often they were re-allocated.

Conveniently when most of the driver training has been done so things will naturally improve regardless of who is operating the franchise. Its almost as if they planned it isnt it!

A HST power car cant take full power until about 35-40 mph so until you get to that speed it will be leisurely, once above that acceleration is reasonable, last time I had a OEO set I actually made up 4 minutes from Taunton to Reading, I was trying to keep the deficit to a minimum and was very surprised when I noticed I was making time up so kept things as close as possible to line speed, it was fun.

I wont use supermarket fuel due to the lack of additives and I havent queued in at least the last 6 months, I only need to fill up about twice a month so can chose when to fill up. I have no doubt the number of EV charging locations will increase, whether that keeps up with the increase in EVs wanting to use them time will tell. If I was in the market for a new car (I am not), as things stand, I would probably go for a hybrid.

As you have listed how many EVs can be charged at once, to be fair can you list how many individual petrol and diesel pumps there are please*, the petrol station I use has 4 double sided pumps so thats one location 'charging' 8 IC cars. Odd locations, so we have to play hunt the charging point and then when we find it hope there isnt anyone else using it. Yes I am impatient. Very very much so. * no I am not being serious.

People voting Labour on account of all the 'free' stuff they promised!

No no and no, answering all 3 of your posts. The forum would appear to be hanging and posting the same replies 3 or 4 times.

Do you know if it was an SDO station or a release all? Probably a simple issue but the lack of familiarity of the staff with the new trains is normally what takes the time, when the staff are familiar with them it would probably have been sorted in about 30 seconds. I had a funny one when the IETs were being rolled out to the West Country, ready to leave Plymouth on the Up and the Guard contacted me to say they couldnt close the doors, I looked at the TMS and told him it would help if he keyed in, he had gone through all the fault finding things (obviously none of it worked) but had forgotten the simplest thing, oh how we laughed about it afterwards.

How much do you think it would cost to design your coach and get it through type approval? How much would it cost to build the coach? How many do you think you will sell? £1 million per coach will be about right. Most coaches on heritage lines have the toilets in the vestibule (mark 1 TSO, SK) away from the seated area, not a place I would like to be seated plus the costs of converting the area rather than leaving the toilets alone but locked would be a fair bit of money and as most pres lines struggle to afford routine maintenance on the coach fleet I really cant see a market for them.

Yes yes yes 100% yes, egresses are mechanical (bowden cables) not electrical so if the issue is electrical the doors can still be opened, the circuit which prevents the doors being opened above 5mph is such that once power is removed (either deliberately or a fault) the doors can be opened, fail safe. I am not doing the DOO debate again, it has been done to death, resurrected and done to death again and again so there is no need.

Hard shoulders are a waste of time anyway, when they breakdown a lot of new drivers just stop in the lane they are in rather than get on the hard shoulder, and think the hard shoulder is only there for when they need to stop for a piss! ++ not an entirely serious post+++

Oh puhllease, why is everything a safety issue, please explain how your safety is compromised if the doors remain closed for a few minutes? Doors not releasing at a station is an inconvenience, nothing more! There is the EMERGENCY (<<< the clue is in this bit <<<) egress so the doors can be opened in an emergency! Of course the egress wont dump the brake or allow the door to be opened until the train is below 5(ish) mph so I assume that is a safety issue if the train is on fire and you cant get off at 90mph as well! Train windows are now laminated which can take a fair bit of effort to smash so maybe they should be changed back to toughened glass because that is easier to smash, but then it is also more likely to be smashed if a coach overturns so people could be expelled and crushed to death, so maybe they should be laminated to prevent them breaking, and round and round we go. Any safety feature will always be a compromise because what saves you in one situation could/will put you in danger in another!

Yep, I was counting the non windowed bit of the rear coach as a separate DVT.

I have never taken an hour to put half a tank of fuel in my car so hardly! As more people move over to EVs I think we will start to see queueing to use the few available chargers as demand outstrips supply due to Councils being unable/unwilling to install enough chargers. Has anyone answered the elephant in the room, how is Government going to recoup the tax revenue lost as Petrol/diesel usage reduces?

Looks to be a 9 8 car set, 3, NDM, NDM, 4 3. I reckon nearly every possible formation would have run at some stage.

Where I live I park at the side of a main road and am lucky to park anywhere near my house (car currently 5 doors down the road) so am curious how I charge it?

Normally 1 (small) car, thats all. Try fitting a family car (Ford Mondeo etc) into a new house garage and let my know how you get on. I would put good money on it not even fitting in the doorway, if it does actually get through the garage door I doubt you would be able to open the car doors and get out of the car.

Indeed, but its amazing how many people try and be prototypical and get the '6 foot' exactly right, as others have said its just a term so everyone knows what part you are talking about, cess, 4 foot, 6 foot, 10 foot etc.

Be interesting to see what happened there, IF the driver is as shown on Genius then he is VERY conscientious and I find it hard to believe he could make such a fundamental error, I do appreciate we can all make mistakes but.