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[Btline]

Hopefully the recently installed signals between Droitwich and Worcester will help with some of the woes.

I am assuming that all stations on the Cotswold Line will have real time information after the redoubling (and that the National Rail tracker dep boards will work).

[IndustryInsider]

Hopefully the recently installed signals between Droitwich and Worcester will help with some of the woes.

I am assuming that all stations on the Cotswold Line will have real time information after the redoubling (and that the National Rail tracker dep boards will work).

It'll still be Absolute Block signalling so that won't change things. We will have to see what type of system is installed when the current CIS^▸ (Customer Information System) gets replaced - GPS would appear to be a logical step forward, but that would mean the train also having some kind of identification system fitted.

[onthecushions]

Just had 3 days business in Berlin and have saved a Berliner Morgenpost newspaper for the gems it contained about German railways.

The headline was "Chaos am Bahnhof" with managemenent statements that the "situation was out of control" and that "there was no end in sight"

Apparently a derailment in an all-singing and dancing emu had shown wheel faults and Kaiser Bill's HMRI^▸ (His Majesty's Railway Inspectorate) then required all 4000 wheels to be replaced in the class alongside full axle checks. This required withdrawal of most S-Bahn (a sort of Berlin NSE^▸ (Network South East)) services. To add to the trouble, the fitters found systematic faults in the bremszylinderen (brake actuators)......

It makes you appreciate UK^▸ (United Kingdom) engineering and, for all the structural faults of privatisation, the quality of our staff and management at (F)GW^» (Great Western - used as an abbreviation for the area / lines under the Great Western franchise, as opposed to FGW which includes "First", the company operating them too. For tickets - about).

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