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1  Journey by Journey / London to Didcot, Oxford and Banbury / Re: Tilehurst station upgrade on: January 15, 2024, 10:09:34
Well I hope Pangbourne, which is now busier than both Goring & Streatley (which has lifts) and Tilehurst, is next.  There’s only a subway at Pangbourne and no footbridge, but I guess that above-ground lifts (2 required) and a new bridge in between would be cheaper than lifts down to the subway. 
2  All across the Great Western territory / Looking forward - after Coronavirus to 2045 / Re: What do we and the rail industry need for 2024 and beyond? on: January 02, 2024, 09:31:43
Lack of Government funding is often used as an excuse for poor railway performance, but there are some things which the railway industry can and should be doing better which are down to the management eg
•   Better regulation and thus better punctuality
•   Better customer information, particularly when the service is disrupted.
•   Better incident management to get the service back more quickly.

I think there is a cultural issue to be addressed which encourages risk-averse management and discourages initiative.
3  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Infrastructure problems in Thames Valley causing disruption elsewhere - ongoing, since Oct 2014 on: December 23, 2023, 10:02:37
I think we all agree that it needs railway people to guide evacuees from the trains to a place of safety.  The issue is why did it took so long for this to be organised, in this case within a few hundred yards of Paddington station.  The sooner “guides” are mobilsed with a controlled evacuation, the less chance there is of people self-evacuating and wandering off – that WOULD have been a safety hazard.
4  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Infrastructure problems in Thames Valley causing disruption elsewhere - ongoing, since Oct 2014 on: December 22, 2023, 10:22:54
Sorry, ET, I have to disagree.  The fact that the passengers were in a “place of safety” (although that is arguable) is no excuse for managers not acting more quickly to evacuate the trains. 

The management of safety requires a balanced and informed approach to risk and benefit.  It seems to me that to-day’s managers and/or management systems tend to find reasons – particularly around the interpretation of H&S (Health and Safety) - not to take decisive and quick action when things go wrong.   

Managers should have the competence and confidence to use their judgment to act decisively and solve problems quickly.  That’s what they’re paid to do. 
5  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Infrastructure problems in Thames Valley causing disruption elsewhere - ongoing, since Oct 2014 on: December 16, 2023, 11:03:13
As a life long railway engineer since 1978 and on Western TV area since 2007, I find it embarrassing that our infrastructure appears to be as fragile as apparently it is.
What I find worse is that internally within the business nothing appears to be getting said as how the situation is being addressed.
today, the Chief Executive was urging members of staff to complete the diversity and inclusion survey.......

I too was a lifelong railway engineer.  If to-day's managers are incapable of devising systems to safely evacuate electric trains before the batteries run out you need either better batteries or better management. 
6  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Firstgroup results due this Thursday (23rd) on: November 20, 2023, 09:10:54
A “return on sales” of 2% is – assuming it’s been reported correctly– hardly ”bumper profits”.
7  Sideshoots - associated subjects / The Lighter Side / Re: A railway but where and for what purpose on: August 18, 2023, 09:38:10
Is it on Portland?
8  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Infrastructure problems in Thames Valley causing disruption elsewhere - ongoing, since Oct 2014 on: August 15, 2023, 17:16:42
A Crossrail has been put in P10 which I've seen before to help free up P12-P15.   
9  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Infrastructure problems in Thames Valley causing disruption elsewhere - ongoing, since Oct 2014 on: August 15, 2023, 16:42:48
The UM appears to be shut between Moreton Cutting and Reading, which means that all Up trains are currently using the UR.  This exposes a weakness in the layout at Reading, in that you can’t access P10 and P11 (the UM platforms) from the UR, so all Up trains have to use P12 -P15, which are getting a bit congested.  This is exacerbated by the fact that Crossrail trains normally take up 2 platforms, which wasn’t envisaged when the station layout was designed.     

A solution would be a trailing crossover between the UM and DR just west of the station, but I suppose the chances of that happening are about zero.
10  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Problems with IET trains from April 2021 on: August 14, 2023, 16:05:31
800316 is now (at 1605) showing as 5C78 FAIL at Westbury P1.  Perhaps it is quite likes Westbury and doesn’t want to leave even if it is cluttering up the station.  It is/was called “#Lionesses” – is this a bad omen?
11  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Problems with IET trains from April 2021 on: August 14, 2023, 15:20:07
 … and 5C78 (formerly known as 1C78) is still at Westbury with a RTT» (Real Time Trains - website) path at 1520 to Stoke Gifford.  Hope they clear the debris off the roof before it gets to Bristol Parkway. 
12  Journey by Journey / London to Didcot, Oxford and Banbury / Re: Black Bridge, Nuneham: southern abutment failure on: April 30, 2023, 09:48:36
From what Stuart Calvert says at 1:18 I wonder if they are going to make openings in the bridge deck so they can insert the piles and drill down through the deck from above.

If this is so the deck will be jacked up slightly so the new abutment can then be constructed underneath it before the deck is lowered down on to its new bearings.
13  Journey by Journey / Bristol (WECA) Commuters / Re: train services to Gloucester to double. on: April 17, 2023, 17:09:32
So I gather, though no-one has actually said it, that we're talking about increased train services to Gloucester ... from Bristol. It could be Worcester, Birmingham, Swindon, S Wales, or all of them.  Have we got to follow an external link before we find out?  It would be good if posts were self-explanatory and understandable without having to follow an external link. 
14  Journey by Journey / London to Didcot, Oxford and Banbury / Re: Black Bridge, Nuneham: southern abutment failure on: April 15, 2023, 11:48:04
The length of the pile casings is determined by the ground conditions as determined by site investigations.  They go down as far as is necessary to ensure that the ground will not collapse inwards when the drill exits the bottom of the pile casing.  The drilling continues on downwards as far as is necessary for the loads to be supported.

It’s always good to get the void filled with the steel reinforcing and concrete as quickly as possible, until you do there’s always a concern that the void will collapse inwards. 
15  Journey by Journey / London to Didcot, Oxford and Banbury / Re: Black Bridge, Nuneham: southern abutment failure on: April 15, 2023, 11:23:23
Here's a video showing how piling is done in and next to a river:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_vH6MMGN1s&list=UUB2nPWt7H4Oai9C0pgfACgA&index=3

Nick Brazil produced videos (on YouTube) at every stage of the reconstruction of Whitchurch Bridge, which has some parallels with that at Nuneham   A big crane on a pontoon was used throughout the project.
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