On 2016-08-16 14:46:48 +0000, Roland Perry said:

Of course they can, how else would "calling on" signals work? (Albeit
recently not so well at Plymouth).

That is rather an edge case.

Neil
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On 2016-08-16 15:56:24 +0000, d said:

I never said it could. But like I said in another post, some braking is better
than no braking at all.

Maybe true, but removing human error from the system completely will no
doubt save lives/injuries overall. And railway operation is, by and
large, absolute - there is no need for the kind of "fuzzy logic"
inherent in self-driving cars.

Neil
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In message , at 09:48:35 on Wed, 17
Aug 2016, Neil Williams remarked:

The last time I ordered a minicab was when living in Nottingham
within the last 5yrs.

Did you order it using a landline?

Probably.

If you did I can see why you might not have experienced the text
service.

They could have asked for a mobile number.
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In message , at 09:52:22 on Wed, 17
Aug 2016, Neil Williams remarked:

Of course they can, how else would "calling on" signals work? (Albeit
recently not so well at Plymouth).

That is rather an edge case.

There are others, such as when big told by a signaller to proceed at
caution.

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On 2016-08-17 09:11:03 +0000, Roland Perry said:

In message , at 09:52:22 on Wed, 17
Aug 2016, Neil Williams remarked:

Of course they can, how else would "calling on" signals work? (Albeit
recently not so well at Plymouth).

That is rather an edge case.

There are others, such as when big told by a signaller to proceed at caution.

In that kind of case an automated train could be driven manually at low
speed by the guard, like it is on the DLR.

But overall, a train doing 200mph under the control of a fully tested
safety-critical computer is safer than one with a person there doing
what the computer tells them.

Neil
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On 2016-08-18 14:48:40 +0000, d said:

13 hours a day? Sooner you than me.

That's a fairly typical day for a Home Counties London commuter - leave
home around 0630, get home around 1930. You're only working for 8 of
those hours roughly, but it's still a long day out.

Neil
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In message , at 17:44:03 on Thu, 18
Aug 2016, Neil Williams remarked:

13 hours a day? Sooner you than me.

That's a fairly typical day for a Home Counties London commuter - leave
home around 0630, get home around 1930. You're only working for 8 of
those hours roughly, but it's still a long day out.

I don't do daily commuting but recently I've attended several all day
(which is roughly 9.30am to 6pm, or 2pm to 10pm) sessions in
Westminster, to which one can add getting on for two hours each way.

Long days in the past mainly at conferences, where work starts over
breakfast and goes on all day until 8 or 9pm.
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:44:03 +0100
Neil Williams wrote:
On 2016-08-18 14:48:40 +0000, d said:

13 hours a day? Sooner you than me.

That's a fairly typical day for a Home Counties London commuter - leave
home around 0630, get home around 1930. You're only working for 8 of
those hours roughly, but it's still a long day out.

Yes, I suppose thats probably the case. Its one of the reasons I stay within
the M25. The tube might not be great but its usualy never more than an hour
in and out. And with all the problems on Southern these days, who'd want to
live south of the city!

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d wrote

Yes, I suppose thats probably the case. Its one of the reasons I stay
within
the M25. The tube might not be great but its usualy never more than an hour
in and out. And with all the problems on Southern these days, who'd want to
live south of the city!

Those who use South-Eastern, SWT, Overground or the tube ?

When I commuted by SWT (Surrey, inside the M25) it took me an hour and a
quarter, door to door.


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In article , (Michael R N
Dolbear) wrote:

d wrote

Yes, I suppose thats probably the case. Its one of the reasons I stay
within the M25. The tube might not be great but its usualy never more
than an hour in and out. And with all the problems on Southern these
days, who'd want to live south of the city!

Those who use South-Eastern, SWT, Overground or the tube ?

When I commuted by SWT (Surrey, inside the M25) it took me an hour
and a quarter, door to door.

I did it from Cambridge in less than that when I worked in Westminster.

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