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Yeah, only having a tug when it rains.

TMI

TBF a few of those a day in the life columns are written in jest and obviously not true

Liverpool could have had 2 pens too. Was very card happy on LFC fouls and didn't show cards for identical fouls committed by Newcastle players.

For the Newcastle one, it didn't look like a pen in realtime and from the refs point of view. Looked like very minimal contact. VAR replays suggested it probably was a pen, but not enough to overturn the on-field decision.

The final whistle was blown way before, back when the ball was in the Newcastle 3rd, but they played on and didn't hear it.

Instagram.
I used to use it to share photos of wildlife and follow lots of wildlife photographers.

Now it seems entirely full of girls making videos of themselves miming to clips from films or miming songs. I'm assuming lots of people watch them, but not sure why.

Mine too. They also have a semi-successful thing for catching the cuttings.

So are cables too often

However, the delay attribution system/calculations are actually entirely separate from the delay-repay system

Two under

I meant on deciding who is responsible!

The amount of money and time spent already on delay attribution is sodding horrendous.

It sounds like the right choice.

It also falls down on its not just time slots, but the relative speeds of the services, the number and location of stops and the time taken to embark/disembark at each station dependent upon the type of train and number of passengers on that service. It's also dependent upon the number of lines e.g. 2 pairs or lines (one fast one slow), just one or bi-directional, and the signalling layout (can only ever run one train per block).

Nope.

MWCC, not well-known in the UK. yet.

I was thinking at least £15k for the roof, with the chimney repairs etc, its not just batons and tiles, its the roof beams also?

Yeah, they said they have no more money.

Yeah, same. Had a chesty cough that's been going on the 4-5 weeks. Got worse, then got a bit better, than worse again over and over. I did one test that was negative at the start, but that doesn't mean much as the first time I got COVID, i tested negative 3 days running and only positive on the 4th.

No, I left NR in 2021. I've actually worked for them on 3 occasions. First time in Engineering at head office. Then on projects and lastly in ops. I'm now working for a civils contractor on HS2...

When i worked on stations, it was for the NR managed stations, so NR was responsible for the maintenance of the assets, but the TOCs operated them.

The TOC payment thing has changed now (since COVID), as they are literally just paid to run a service i believe.

I visit large building sites on a regular basis in the UK. The one in the pic is exceptionally bad. at Uni, I laboured on building sites in my holidays, I never came across one as bad that that one.

Yes, i might have a heart attack seeing ones east of Germany.

Cards on the table. I work in the rail industry. I've worked for NR and civils contractors. I work mainly on projects to improve/replace infrastructure, but have also worked in operations covering the major managed stations in South London (Vic, Waterloo, London Bridge, Charing Cross, Clapham Junction).

I joined Network Rail back in the early 2000s when I had just become NR (my contract came through on Railtrack headed paper). Railtrack was obviously a disaster. NR actually did some great things. If you look at performance improvements from say around 2002 to 2010, they actually made huge steps forward, but things have plateaued after that. I believe, for sure, that the nationalised nature of the infrastructure is essential.

I have seen the interfaces between the privatised TOCs and NR does work well at a local level. TOC station managers and NR Station managers all work very hard to try to make things work smoothly, but it's inefficient for a start having two different sets of station staff. You can also see how at a higher level that both sides are protecting their own interests and for the TOCs that means profit, sometimes to the detriment of performance/customer satisfaction.

1 over.
Answer not really one I'd associate with the definition.

South West Trains to be first renationalised railway franchise after new legislation brought in last week.

Nothing will happen until the Korean Trade Unions Federation joins the fight.

Whether they are nice chaps or not, there are some fairly serious H&S legislation breaches in that one photo alone. It's not the landlord who is doing the building work, it's those nice chaps who are putting lives at risk.

Their parliament has voted to block the move for martial law.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn38321180et