The likes of Just Eat and Deliveroo will just say not our problem, they "employ" a person to deliver stuff, the means by which that that person achieves the delivery is that persons

All the "big 4" and BR^▸ (British Rail(ways)) locos, multiple units and rolling stock were an amalgam of bits even to the extent multiple unit coaches were swapped when in the works for refurb

1001 is actually a genuine "Hastings Thumper" ................ 1034 is just a standard "Thumper"

Seems the traction motors have an Earth fault 

Electromotive Force (EMF) (and its sibling Back EMF), and Potential Difference (PD) and different entities all are electrical pressure the SI unit for the is Voltage.   The Amperage stated on electrical apparatus is usually stated as the max rated current, the current draw measured in Amperes (Coulombs per second), and is dependant on the Voltage supplied to the apparatus, load on the apparatus and temperature.

Frequency is one of those things used to be stated as cycles per second but to day is Hertz (Hz)

I do find it amusing how the USA still use BTU for their heating and cooling and use Inches, pints, quarts in every day life.   I think the USA today is where the UK^▸ (United Kingdom) was 50 to 40 years ago in the transition to metric and SI units, USA industry is certainly moving quite quickly to metric and  SI units  due to international market demands

HM Forces Railcard

Serving Police Officers and PCSO's have travel concessions, both on and off duty depending on where they are in the country, they must be available (and capable) of providing assistance to rail staff

Rail staff "priv" is an open secret ................ just Google "Rail Staff travel card"

This may become a more regular event over the next few months as the Wales and Western Region tackle the defects that have caused the problems recently in the Thames Valley.

The railways transporting goods and parcels ......................

... now that's new a novel 

It will never catch on     


Seriously, I do hope this does work, what would be better than an Amazon hub (other jungle providers are available) being rail connected .............. Royal Mail lead the way 30 years ago with their rail hubs and look what happened to those 

Think these acquisitions is more about increasing capacity on existing services than the introduction of additional services.

Allegedly one person in custardy.

I was a Paddington caught up in the melee, it seem to take an inordinate amount of time to recharge the OLE^▸ (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE").  The only think I can think of was a local isolation and Earthing had been put in place to make it safe for the Blue Light services which had to then be lifted

Andrew Haines has pointed out to HMG the cancelling of the northern section of HS2^▸ (The next High Speed line(s)) will place excessive pressure on the WCML^▸ (West Coast Main Line) north of  Handsacre Junction, due to HS2 trains being much shorter than the pendolinos as such twice as many trains will need to be run!! 

Network Rail does not have any CP7 funding to accommodate this because all of the capacity increase was being funded by HS2

Its going to be a mess

A railway contract I was under a few years ago, and I know is still in use, I got 6 days holiday to compensate for bank holidays being rostered as normal work days the only ones treated as bank holidays are Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day.  Saturdays and Sundays also rostered the only enhanced overtime payments was for working a rest day 0.25.

Railways staff are restricted in we must have 12 hours rest between shifts, and can only work 13 days out of 14 ie every 13 days we must have a day off.

Although it is during the school Easter holidays

This has been talked about right from day one of the HEX scheme in the 1990's.

There are a number of challenges, the track layout where the UP & DN Poplars join the GWML^▸ (Great Western Main Line) is setup for freight moves in and out of Acton Yard, Acton Yard will also need to be wired, whilst all this is achievable the crux comes down to who funds the electrification and future Maintainenance.

The Freight Operators (FOC^▸ (Freight Operating Company)'s) currently due to their tight operating margins they have little or no need / desire to fund the electrification of Acton Yard and Poplars , they are private companies without public funding (unlike passenger TOCs^▸ (Train Operating Company)) 
The Passenger TOCs have virtually no need for the Poplars to be electrified, the usage into Euston would be limited; indeed running a few trains via the poplars could impact the turning around of services at Ealing Broadway.
Network Rail cannot undertake the task alone as it could not justify the funding because neither FOCs or TOCs have a requirement for it.

Should Acton Yard and the Poplars be electrified ........... yes ............. but unfortunately there just is not the demand to spend the money to do it

I can understand why they would chose to go cashless.

Cash costs money to process (eg taking it to the bank)
There are expensive security measures needed
Its open to fraud.

However I suspect the main reason is the number of customers that have been pay cashless out way the number paying by cash