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⚡️Electrification of all things⚡️Public transport advocate. Working hard to build a sustainable business and a sustainable transport network. 🚃🚎🚋🚎 (he/him)
Somewhere in the Channel
Joined March 2013
@sc_wadsy @OllyGloverLD Exactly- baking in 50 years of announcements: "Sorry for the delays. We are behind a slow-running freight train.'
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@sc_wadsy It is national policy to use spring tensioning, but you need the correct plant to install, maintain and remove. MML want to stick with balance as you can do without heavy plant.
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@Tarka_Man Oh that is a long and interesting story. The short one is essentially maintenance on MML want balance weights
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@contrapunctus_m Not sure - the announcements and media were vague. There are so many issues in the area it is hard to tell.... and a very, very long term plan to fix them - for the next couple of years I think it will just be crap
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@LukeLukesenior In Switzerland they have an integrated timetable so probably easy to manage. For the UK really complex, if not impossible currently.
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@philatrail @PaulMBigland It is from 1982 - so old, but not that old for the railway. I will advise the site teams to focus access on foggy days 😅
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RT @nationalrailenq: 🚊#Paddington - Trains are returning to normal following a failure of the electricity supply earlier today between Lond…
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