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Originally Posted by Deathbyteacup
Haven't weekend engineering works been a factor on the railway since forever? I can't imagine there's many weekends go by where there's not some sort of delay someplace in Britain for track maintainence and things of that nature, and that hasn't been the case streching way back to as far as anyone remembers.
Railways are large complex things?
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And they keep wearing out, because people use them
I am amazed that NWR can do the amount of work they do with the little time available to them. Not to mention having to clear up decades of underinvestment in the track and signals.
Maybe there are greater working efficienices possible, but not if they put people at risk