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21B liked Duty Druid's post in the thread Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters.
And so the forecast proved to be correct! Though having been inside a pressure cooker at owrk, it was actually nice to be outside, even in the heat & humidity. Various jobs were tackled amongst the six nutters who gathered atop the hill.........
Jun 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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21B replied to the thread The 10A Allocation.
Yep….weird
Jun 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM -
21B replied to the thread The 10A Allocation.
Deleted… wrong thread
Jun 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM -
21B replied to the thread The 10A Allocation.
Pedantry forgiven. I was told by someone in S and T recently that they had had trouble finding an intermittent fault, because it only manifested when a train went over a particular section, but they weren’t permitted to be there when….
Jun 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM -
21B replied to the thread The 10A Allocation.
Is part of the issue that the more the railway is “simplified” in various ways from fixed sets to auto couplers, the less ground level competence there is to deal with the unusual? I do worry about the “no line side working when there are trains...
Jun 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM -
21B liked andrewtoplis's post in the thread The 10A Allocation.
As a former Head of Control for a mainline train operator, I can very much agree. The time taken to deal with what I thought should be simple things drove me mad.
Jun 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM -
21B replied to the thread The 10A Allocation.
At least you would have that option as the couplings were universally interoperable….I was on a 25kv EMU rescued by an 86 hauling a container train. The sort of thing that was very simple to organise and execute once upon a time!
Jun 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
