It is certainly not a problem that seems to be in decline. We have recently been away by rail. On our outbound journey on Thursday 14 September, our second train of the day was an Avanti GWML^▸ (Great Western Main Line) service out of Birmingham New Street. Near Sandwell and Dudley station, the train shuddered to a halt. A clearly shaken TM^‡(resolve) told us a few minutes later that a man had jumped of a bridge in front of the train. Incredibly, the train only clipped him, and he wasn't seriously hurt. The driver could not continue though, and the train terminated in Wolverhampton. We eventually continued on a diesel service for many miles under wires. 

This morning, as we boarded the connecting train to Manchester, I saw that our train to Bristol had been cancelled. After making hurried adjustments to our itinerary using RTT^» (Real Time Trains - website), I found that cancellation was also caused by a person hit by train.

From DnG24

as well as the signage mentioned above, I guess there were also rather more "real" people around (rail platform staff, either appropriately trained or having acquired the knowledge on the job) who could be asked.

There were also those wonderful long station announcements, telling you each stop (in order, of course) and where you had to change to get to other destinations.

A two-way organic process? In my only trip to India, back in 1986, I found it amusing that the term "bogie" was used to describe a coach, carriage or car.

Empire and imperialism - a crucible for linguistic innovation and evolution?

I'll be down there for a hot beverage and a piece of cake I expect.

Yup. With the announcement: "You can find the buffer car in coach F."

Mind,these user to be buffet CARs in the past, before their daft removal.

Indeed it is. And often wobbled through the prism of empire and colonialism.

Brief chat with the guard as I alighted at Farnborough Main. She is originally from Canada.