Some queues of trains building up on the Up Main at Slough West, and the Down Relief at Dolphin Jn. And there aren’t many class 9 trains, so it looks like the Elizabeth Line service had been thinned out.

I'd try to keep out of the vicinity of any vehicle whose two front two wheels can point in those directions...

But srsly, thoughts go to all injured and affected parties.

Does "not having any meal-break-cover signallers at TVSC^» (Thames Valley Signalling Centre - about)" count as an Infrastructure Problem?

Paddington has closed from 1030 to 1100 this morning, and is about to close(*) again from 1330 to 1500.


(*) - all trains brought to a safe stand at a station, then have to wait there until the relevant workstation is manned again.

Edit to add:
Apologies - just seen the other thread about signalling staff taken ill.

7 is Banbury, looking south from the Down Loop platform.  The platform starter is one of the newest semaphores on the network, allowing trains to turn back there - used frequently during the Reading remodelling.

Edit to add (read the question, rower40, do keep up...)
Train is a Chiltern Railways DMU^▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) of some flavour.  (168? 170?)  I'm not fussed about rolling stock as long as it obeys the signals and operates the track circuits.  (And possibly, stays put in its sidings overnight - see recent RAIB^▸ (Rail Accident Investigation Branch) report about a runaway from Toton.)

It appears to be still there, nearly 14 hours later.  Although its TD has changed from "1L96" to "5CAR".  There doesn't seem to be much urgency in getting it wheelskated and towed away.  Possibly a corporate dread of what wheelskates do to axle counters.

Derby platform 7 for being signposted as such, but not being passed for passenger trains.

Derby Rowing Club knocked out in the first round of the Wyfold Challenge Cup (coxless 4s) by Minerva Bath. So I won’t be making the trip this year.

There are a lot of things from the ‘old days’ that we don’t do any more.
Slavery
Bear-baiting
Sending urchins up chimneys
Maybe it’s time to add ‘burning coal for entertainment’ to that list?

I grew up _{[Citation needed]} in the era of "If it moves, paint it blue." - the only exceptions being the red stripe on the waistband of the Railway Technical Centre test vehicles.  No objection to that coming back as a principle.
The flying banana has to stay yellow, obv.

I don't think we'll get a choice. 
It'll be whatever colour(s) the local teenagers happen to have in their spray-cans.

Sorry for off-topic...

The rot set in with the removal of the internal door-handles on Mk3 coaches. (Does anyone else remember the "Tamworth Triangle" falls-from-trains tragedies?)  On a crush-loaded Mk3, these door handles would look invitingly like a perch-seat, with awful consequences if the hinge of that door was nearer the rear of the train.

When these coaches were retro-fitted with Central Locking, it was a travesty that the door-handles weren't then re-installed, as it would have saved having to open the windows at each station where anyone was leaving the train.

+1 for Buffet cars!

Understood - I was just tickled by the image of a crane lifting itself up onto a lorry!  Shades of "picking oneself up by one's bootstraps" - the phrase from which "booting" a computer comes from.

Sending a crane away for scrapping is such a tricky decision for a heritage railway. It’s a bit of a last resort - because:
A) once it’s gone, how do you load anything else for scrap onto the lorry?
B) how do you get the crane itself onto a lorry?

(Great) British Rail(ways) needs a world-renowned Research division, based somewhere central - say, the East Midlands - to spearhead the technological challenges of the decades ahead.
This might, erm... RESONATE ... with certain developments in the 1960s.

The new one.