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Sideshoots - associated subjects / News, Help and Assistance / Re: Coffee Shop time format
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on: February 02, 2024, 05:34:45
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... And just to make a nerdish point, the time separator in the UK▸ is traditionally a full stop rather than a colon, so 23.47 rather than 23:47… That's fine when you're writing just hours and minutes. When you also include seconds I think you need to use colon throughout, to avoid something that looks like a misformatted decimal number with two decimal points. |
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All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Sheffield-London train service plans revealed by FirstGroup
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on: January 08, 2024, 20:37:44
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Quote from: PrestburyRoad on Today at 02:01:30 pm
On a smaller scale, and no longer applicable since its transfer to the Overground: all the intermediate stations on the South London Line, with its early overhead electrification and latterly its 2-EPBs shuttling between London Bridge and Victoria.
Yep, I had wondered about Nunhead and Peckham Rye - however, isn't the line physically broken as well at Battersea Park now? Yes - I believe that that route through into Victoria is now broken, and one of the former South London Line platforms at Battersea Park is now disused and its track has been disconnected. |
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All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: So what's a biodiversity unit - can I get a job in one?
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on: December 22, 2023, 11:01:54
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Diversity adds to a richness of variety and should be celebrated; it prevents all eggs being placed in one basket and if that basket should fail for the dominant species, the whole balance could be knocked. For that reason, we should be encouraging our train operator to retain class 57, 150, 156, 158, 165, 166, 230, 387, 800, 802, and Castle, and perhaps looking to add representatives from classes such as 139, 153, 159, 168, 180 and 801, with others coming on board too as they are manufactured. I rather suspect that this scenario would create a nightmare for maintenance, staff qualification and control teams! That sounds like running a heritage railway - oh, wait a minute, maybe that's what we've got already (in parts)  |
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All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: News from around the UK
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on: December 21, 2023, 12:24:05
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As Graham says the Government's official definition of "Southwest" includes outliers such as Gloucestershire & Wiltshire but the true "Westcountry" is Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset........although to some Cornish people everything East of the Tamar is "London" Smiley Gloucestershire has long been a boundary area. For example, before the privatisations it was served by Midland Electricity Board and South Western Gas Board. |
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