Dan Fox

@ChimeWhistle Railways can't just rely on a statutory defence for noise nuisance, if they were subject to an environmental health investigation they would need to demonstrate they were using best practicable means to minimise noise pollution. If not, could be subject to enforcement action.

Councils don't tend to view it that way - only viewing it in terms of noise and pollution nuisance. One depot has had to move its diesel start up point, following complaints from homeowners who then got their MP involved.

@BrokenBritain_7 @ChimeWhistle I mean, you're paying for the travel and not the inspection of the ticket so... Refunding a ticket for a journey you travelled on would be a bit fradulent

@ChimeWhistle And don't bother asking for a refund if they aren't checked during the journey!

As reported by me around three weeks ago, after seeing the internal briefing.

@TPEassist Journey planners only seem to show options that aren't currently available, cancelled or "overtaken by another service" which isn't there. Best routing from Hudds into Victoria today is feeling a little difficult to figure out yourself this morning. Any advice?

🎫You can use your ticket at no extra cost on the following services in both directions: · Northern services between Huddersfield and Sheffield · Northern services Leeds and Sheffield · Northern services Hudderfield/Mirfield and Leeds · CrossCountry services between Leeds and Sheffield until the end of the day. · TransPennine Express & East Midland Railway services between Sheffield and Manchester Piccadilly/Liverpool Lime Street · LNER services between York and Doncaster until the end of the day. · Metrolink services between Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Victoria/Manchester Airport Customers travelling from Manchester who require Huddersfield are advised where possible to board TransPennine Express services from Manchester Victoria and alight at Dewsbury and transfer to the rail replacement services from here to Huddersfield. Customers travelling from Leeds who require Huddersfield are advised to go via Sheffield or alight at Dewsbury and board the Rail Replacement services provided. 🚌The following rail replacement transport has been requested to operate: · Stalybridge-Huddersfield calling at Mossley, Greenfield, Slaithwaite and Marsden departing at XX:00 every hour from 05:00 until 23:00 · Huddersfield-Manchester Piccadilly calling at Marsden, Slaithwaite, Greenfield, Mossley and Stalybridge departing at XX:00 every hour from 05:00 until 23:00 · Dewsbury-Huddersfield departing at XX:15 every hour from 05:15 until 23:15 · Huddersfield-Dewsbury departing at XX:45 every hour from 05:45 until 22:45 Please be advised other operators are likely to be busy and customers may experience overcrowding on services.

@northernassist you seem to have a CIS fault on platform 1 on the Down Huddersfield at Slaithwaite with a solid white bar showing, coincidentally the photo also captures a light you have put over the platform, cheers!

@tomhfh Looks banging to me - anyone from North of the Watford Gap

What kind of service do you call *this*????

Suicide. I'm choosing to be deliberately blunt and provocative in this post because it's necessary. Government, charities, football clubs are all pushing water up a hill in highlighting what is undoubtedly a major health crisis. You take a rope. You put it up in a garage or a tree nearby or far away. You're thinking about every loved one you'll leave behind as you put that rope around your neck. Then you drop. Some are decapitated. Some aren't. All are found by someone who has a lifetime of trauma that will never leave them. A son. A daughter. A brother. A sister. A mother. A father. I know 2 men who hung themselves. One was found by his Mom. One was found by his brother. Neither have recovered fully. 20 and 30 years on. A life sentence for people who were already worrying, terrified their loved one may do something. So just visualise the above and ask, "is there another way"? A segway for a moment. I do a few Q&A's every year. Tales of yesterday with a 99% male audience of my age group. After the stories and fun, my last question back to the audience is.. "Hands up if you struggle with a mental health issue". Nobody ever puts a hand up. Despite 1 in every 3 of 500 attendees statistically struggling. "Ah, nobody, that's fucking brilliant! Well I do! ". I then graphically tell people, stunned into silence about how a rope around my neck in the middle of nowhere jolted me to go home and cry like a baby to my Mom. After the Q&A has finished, something always happens. I'll be chatting to a few guys, saying bye and one by one, men will come over and whisper " I struggle". Or my mailbox the next day will have 30 emails from guys, their partners or kids saying " Dad/Uncle /Brother was there last night and what you said hit them hard". And that's how some people realise that it's time to speak to a pal or family member or even rant to me in an email. It works, I often get a follow up email a year or 6 later saying that they took responsibility for their suicidal feelings and are now flying. Humans are programmed to want to live, to have families and to keep the species growing and thriving. So for a human to want to short circuit that desire isn't normal, and it should never be spoken of as normal. It's the ultimate red flag. If you suspect your mate, Dad, Brother, Uncle is struggling mentally, they deserve your intervention. They deserve a " are you OK, please tell me what's up". They deserve an opportunity to get past wanting to hang a rope over a tree or in a garage and slowly struggle until they die and you find them. If you've been there and trust me I have plenty, then you'll know that text out of the blue, or a footie mate or one of your kids asking jow you are can open the curtains to some sunshine. Because when suicide is your only answer, the room is already dark, and you can't see a way out. So please, fucking pretty please, ask that husband, Dad, Uncle, Cousin, footie pal TODAY how they are. You may be shocked what comes back but extremely glad that you asked. For those who struggle, you're not alone.

@philatrail That's an odd feeling with that very distinctive TPE interior with a logo swap!

The best trains that TransPennine Express ever had…

@juliaprestbury Sorry to hear this x all my sympathy

@philatrail Oh indeed

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@sc_wadsy @RAIL Surely they're flakes!

@RAIL The breadbins you mean? ;-)

GB Railfreight Class 99 becomes most powerful loco on UK network as it hauls test train railmagazine.com/news/gb-railfr…

@BennyH391512 @railnigel @Guard_Amos @cvhdavidblues For a start it becomes infinitely harder to examine what you can't see. There have been instances in the past of defective infrastructure which has been missed due to vegetation growth.

@railnigel @Guard_Amos @cvhdavidblues Interesting Such as ? Genuine question

At first glance you'd think this railway was unused. But, you'd be wrong. This is a railway that has trains 7 days a week. What's your opinion @railnigel

@ChrisEJ1993 But how would you know you were getting "real" coffee? gRrRRRRrrr and Shwwwsswussshshhh are the audio of authenticity haha

Someone should invent a silent coffee machine, it would make millions and make cafes so much less noisy to sit in.

@ChimeWhistle 539 52 seaters....

CrossCountry says there will be an extra 28,000 seats in the May timetable. That's an awful lot of rail replacement buses! 😃

@ChrisEJ1993 I do! I miss that haha

Remember before WhatsApp etc and we all sent happy new year texts early because the phone network would die at midnight due to the load 🤣

@MortimerOrazia @RMTunion Franchise bids are a thing of the past for the time being

@RMTunion I am constantly amazed that at no point in the franchise process does the discussion go: To provide this service requires X person hours, which requires a minimum of Y staff. Do you employ Y staff?

We do have a 7 day railway. We don’t have enough staff. To rely on the goodwill of your workers to work their rest days is a failure of management. Not staff.

@ohhanxiety Add 30, minus 1

How do you calculate 56+29 in your head without a calculator? Indulge me please, I am trying to check something

@ChimeWhistle @RAIL I'd imagine one could pin a lot of ops incidents to loss of concentration, situational awareness, human factors etc. if you've access to the RIS on incident investigation it's pretty interesting stuff

@DanielFoxRail @RAIL Not according to internal reports. A relatively common theme is momentarily loss of concentration, although other causes range from a wasp in the cab to spilling boiling hot coffee on the lap.

A Transport for Wales train overshot when trying to stop at a station last month with adhesion issues reported by the driver. railmagazine.com/news/2024/11/1…

@ChimeWhistle @RAIL I'd imagine SPADs are considerably less frequent than daily, especially considering defensive driving through restrictive aspects checking a driver down, though adhesion related overruns probably are more frequent as a station call will often be a reduction from full linespeed

@RAIL A relatively common occurrence, as are SPADs, according to internal reports. Barely a day goes by without a SPAD incident - most usually by no more than a few feet.

@ChrisEJ1993 Cheeky sods

Was quite impressed with this little tablet thing at GBK - until it informed me I had to pay £1.99 extra to play games on it 🤣

@ChrisEJ1993 Kaput!

Broken!