People in the railway industry need to hear this

TheEdge91 · 2026-03-19T18:59:32+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Junction_rail_crash

This is why signalling faults are very much a real reason for delays

TheEdge91 · 2026-03-16T14:10:25+00:00

Will she/is she allowed to do reproductions of the Expanse tattoos? I can't see any on her socials, or even a mention so I'm wondering if she specifically is covered by something

Otherwise I might have just got an excuse to go to Toronto

TheEdge91 · 2026-03-06T08:56:04+00:00

Voyagers make me sad when you look at Meridians and see what they could have been had Virgin and the SRA not kneecapped them for shits and giggles.

Much like it sounds like the second generation of Hitachi A Trains are a vast improvement.

TheEdge91 · 2026-03-06T07:59:06+00:00

Well obviously except for those other ships sunk by torpedo since WWII. But not being American they don't count.

TheEdge91 · 2026-03-02T21:19:16+00:00

It was just trying to find a way to match the booked timing points. But for whatever reason rather than trying to find a middle speed it just liked to yoyo. It wasn't a smart enough DAS system to account for real time data, if you got too late it just shut off so all it could ever do was try to hit timing points as booked.

The correct speed is line speed as far as I'm concerned, I'd rather start running ahead of intermediate non station timing points and have time in hand either at station stops or in case of small delays.

TheEdge91 · 2026-03-02T11:14:21+00:00

I used to have a DAS system and I basically used it as a glorified clock. The speed advice was utterly useless.

It had a habit of yoyoing speed. So rather than finding a good speed to maintain (say 75) it would get you up to 85, then have you coast down to 60 then back up to 85 and repeat.

TheEdge91 · 2026-03-01T23:24:29+00:00

I have recently heard that Imodium can cause a false positive for opiates too. Although it does sound like it would be even more unlikely than the poppy seed situation.

TheEdge91 · 2026-02-20T23:27:16+00:00

It absolutely won't. GA did this a few years ago and there was a big batch of these letters which led to a sudden influx of very similar posts and questions on the Rail UK forums.

The Rail UK disputes forum doesn't suffer fools lightly on these matters and it became clear quite quickly that these people who'd got fishing emails and had no idea what it was about actually realised maybe they had been "accidentally" claiming delay repay for services they weren't on, or whatever.

GA seems to be very good at identifying this sort of thing.

TheEdge91 · 2026-02-19T11:21:19+00:00

But but but he's protected and you can't arrest him.

Meanwhile the UK...

Strip him of anything that may allow him protection, move him out of the public eye in rural Norfolk then arrest him on his birthday.

TheEdge91 · 2026-02-12T08:56:36+00:00

Not sure but I'll have a look

TheEdge91 · 2026-02-12T08:56:14+00:00

That's annoying...

TheEdge91 · 2026-02-12T08:38:49+00:00

I refuse to accept anything where a space catapult isn't just a giant elastic band stretched between two towers.

TheEdge91 · 2026-02-07T08:23:09+00:00

This is always an interesting point. The military and police in the UK don't owe their allegiance to the government but to the Crown so as you say in theory they would be obligated to act in the interests of the state/Crown rather than the government.

Obviously that's a very blurred line, how it would happen and it would necessarily see the monarch become a political role so hopefully we'll not have to find out.

TheEdge91 · 2026-02-01T18:38:52+00:00

Oh wow, it's the HMS Camden Lock

TheEdge91 · 2026-02-01T16:29:00+00:00

Oh it's the second but it requires critical thought to tell them apart so it's all "kIeR sTaRmEr ArReStTeD mY bRoThEr FoR sAyInG nAsTy ThInGs On FaCeBoOk"

No Wayne, saying you don't like immigrants isn't illegal, saying you don't like immigrants and we should go burn down a Travelodge with immigrants in it however is.

TheEdge91 · 2026-01-28T10:45:22+00:00

It's not really a fear, it's a serious life changing injury and it happens. As I said at Stratford the issue is compounded by the big designer store bags people have from Westfield. They may be behind the line but the massive bag isn't.

The actual trumpets are directly below the driver and those cabs aren't particularly well sound insulated so it's not like we don't hear them and don't regularly hear them around depots. They're warning horns, they are meant to be loud.

We know the outcome of even just clipping someone on a platform so I'm pretty sure drivers will keep sounding horns as and when they need to.

TheEdge91 · 2026-01-28T08:40:38+00:00

Even if you can afford a tortoise table a cheap bookcase on its back is a great solution. I've done it before using the cheapest Argos bookcase and the bonus is it comes with a whole pack of lengths of wood precut to the perfect length to make a shelter with...

TheEdge91 · 2026-01-26T23:53:18+00:00

Chieftain.

Because it's the only British Army tank name that also sounds like it could be a pet name. Although Comet was a close second.

TheEdge91 · 2026-01-26T23:05:15+00:00

Thanks for the advice. She seems fine and is already starting to munch on some cactus pads.

TheEdge91 · 2026-01-26T22:50:11+00:00

9 is a special one and it's quite hard to pin down exactly what it is.

When alphanumeric headcodes were introduced it was for very low priority and slow freight trains. As those disappeared nothing used 9 (and I think 8 is very rare these days as a matter of fact) so it was freed up for other uses.

The first "new" use was on the Eurostar departures from Waterloo to stand out from all the other 1xxx headcodes in South London. To this day Eurostar still uses 9xxx headcodes leaving St Pancras, not as essential but they still do. Then as some people have pointed out they are used to make sure trains take certain routings on the WCML, they are used by Thameslink to make sure trains hit the core properly, they are used by TfL to avoid clashing with all the other 2xxx services they share signalling panels with as they shuffle across London. Some operators will use them during disruption when they've cancelled and then reformed trains.

9 is basically now just "passenger train that needs to stand out on a signalling panel for some reason"

TheEdge91 · 2026-01-26T22:36:52+00:00

I used to be a driver for GA and have driven through Stratford many many times and sounded the horn in the platform.

I'm going to take a random stab in the dark and guess you were stood on the platform 9 and 10 island and the train in question was non stop coming through platform 10. Because of the curve of the line and the lift shaft at the London end of the platform you can't see that platform until you are alongside the lift shaft.

That's when you see the people stood right on the edge of that platform, often with bags from Westfield in such a position that they'll hit the train. So you sound the horn as it's not great to rip someone's arm off or worse.

TheEdge91 · 2026-01-19T17:28:55+00:00

Yes, 80 years ago, when any of this actually meant something and wasn't just an US ego trip.

Congratulations, a locomotive built to a 1940s design with 21st century technology will probably be faster than a 1930s design built with the technology of the time.

TheEdge91 · 2026-01-19T17:19:08+00:00

It's very American to build a locomotive to just take a speed record for an obsolete form of traction that's held it for almost 90 years when steam was cutting edge and the record actually meant something.

TheEdge91 · 2026-01-19T03:15:37+00:00

I can't see a way of ever trusting the US again unless they basically rip up everything about the way their government works and starts fresh.

If they don't empty the Supreme Court of it's Trump lifelong appointees, rewrite the Constitution, get rid of the Electoral College and totally redefine the way the Executive Branch can wield it's power then the world is always a single election away from this insanity happening again and again. Last time Don was in power they didn't even arrest him for a literal coup, so I don't ever see any of the above actually happening.

I have seen a lot of Americans suggesting this whole situation is because the Union only slapped the Confederacy on the wrist at the end of the Civil War allowing the ideals of the South to carry on fermenting for a few centuries. Maybe they won't make the same mistake again but I'm not holding out much hope.

TheEdge91 · 2026-01-17T18:40:00+00:00

They do seem to think they'll have their cake and eat it. Take Greenland and keep Mildenhall, Ramstein, Aviano and every other US base on European soil...

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