the problem with not posting for ages is that everytime i scribble something down here it seems like not worth breaking the silence for. never mind.

i like the idea of using ear piercing whistles to speed trains up; this actually seems quite sensible to me. (as well as an appropriate way of breaking the silence.) since it’s often the gradual build up of tiny things going wrong that snowball into major problems (not just on the rail network) it seems the right approach to use other little changes to attempt to make things go in the right direction.