Disabled Passenger Numbers Hit Record Levels
The title of this post is that of an article in Rail Technology Magazine.
It certainly shows that rail companies are going the right way!
One thing you notice in London is the increase in the number of disabled and blind passengers being guided by staff.
Perhaps the perceived increase in London is due to their simple policy on help. This is said.
On the Tube, TfL Rail and Overground, station staff will also accompany you to the train and help you on board and, if needed, can arrange for you to be met at your destination. Anyone can use this service, but it is particularly used by blind and visually impaired passengers and people using boarding ramps onto trains.
If you would like to use this service, ask a member of staff when you arrive at the station.
I hope things are as relaxed elsewhere.
Where Are The Class 700 Trains?
According to the Class 700 entry in Wikipedia, the first train should have entered service on Saturday.
But it didn’t and there’s nothing on the Internet as to why!
Illegal Football Watching Melted My Internet
I should say, that I swapped my Internet use from the Vista system that I liked with Office 2007 to the current Windows 7 and Office 2010, which I don’t like about eighteen months ago, when the older machine became unreliable.
I made one mistake in the transfer, in that I didn’t write down the passwords for my smtp and mail connections. They are stored on my old machine, which is totally dead.
It has worked successfully since then, but yesterday at four o’clock, when the vArsenal match started the Internet went into a curious meltdown.
So many people wanted to watch the Arsenal match on Sky, through broadband, that the connection seemed to melt down in a curious way.
Displaying a page on the Internet was extremely slow, but my e-mail program couldn’t get through the mess and kept asking me for a new smtp password, which I hadn’t written down.
So I just hit return. But it was doing it every ten seconds or so.
And so I must have typed in something, in all this chaos and now as I haven’t got the right password, I can’t connect.
As I was trying to send an e-mail, when this happened, Outlook won’t let me do anything without putting in the correct password first.
I can’t even shut Outlook without forcing it.
I’m pretty certain, there’s a high proportion of boxes, that watch football illegally in this area, which probably caused the problem.
The Anonymous Widower 