I think there will always be a need to brand trains roughly according to their routes to help passengers find their way - for example identifying a Thameslink service from a Southern service has value (and that's before you get to intercity vs local)
There's going to be a need for regional branding. I can't think of a national operator (SNCF, DB, Amtrak, etc) that doesn't have any regional branding, even a little. Passengers will notice if their Exeter to Exmouth train has Anglia branding, and then they'll get on. Same way passengers probably notice their Southeastern service has the Southern livery, but still get on.
Confirmed to be the GBR vinyl pair 720501+144.
Did they introduce LTS because the fares from Southend Central to London were cheaper than the Southend Victoria to London fares, so the distinction needed to be made? GBR Anglia loses that.
Which is essentially what sectorisation achieved, so why can't we just return to that? I do agree that the whole idea of an 'Integrated Business Unit' doesn't sound particularly like it's prioritising the passenger over profit or that it's actually unifying anything...
It mentions 'Other operators route' (missing an apostrophe!), which isn't exactly any different to previous TOC maps. It's especially silly given the whole Kings Lynn section in grey is now nationalised. There are Overground and EL roundels yet the Overground lines out of Liverpool Street are grey?
You can ask Chris Green; he's still with us. They were distinct operations under Eastern Region though.
That won’t change unless they get a few more (4 to 5, maybe?) Class 745s to make this unnecessary, which unfortunately seems unlikely.
That's the challenge they face at the moment and I can't see that changing for another 5 to 10 years until they're due overhauls and refurbs and the current situation becomes even more unsustainable
Even if they do get additional units they still need a way to cycle them through Crown Point from Stansted side - or would we just have ECS?
Ah, that makes sense why they wanted to get the ex-Greater Anglia ones cleared for the LT&SR network then, and why they were running down the different LT&SR branches! (I have to get used to calling it that again, rather than c2c!) Interesting - thank you for the information! It looks like the destination displays might be simply left blank, rather than saying something like “Out Of Service”?
I suppose what was Greater Anglia would have said before that their route to Southend is a longer distance, yet covered in a shorter time, in order to justify their more expensive price, though I don’t think that the price disparity is commensurate with the small time saving. I don’t know what pricing was like in the pre-Network SouthEast days.
Apart from the interchangeability between the two during disruption and agreed engineering works, the only exception I know of is for staff then as it is now. C2C employees can use GA and vice versa as a long standing reciprocal agreement.
Definitely new style GBR CIS boards in the ticket office at Colchester.
Changed at Shenfield. They already had LCD boards there, they've just changed the software.
I assume when it comes to the P.A system, there will be no changes here? With Anglia continuing to utilise BlackBox and C2C utilising Worldline?
You mean the act. The bill is heading for the Lords committee stage in September.
Well dealing with competition law would be a large part I'd guess?
www.railmagazine.com
Welp it would seem they're lawyering about quite a lot actually...
At least it seems that it should be easier for future setups. Still I imagine the new act will allow for a lot of streamlining even further still.
There’s no rail freight in wales?Well dealing with competition law would be a large part I'd guess?
How Anglia learnings can help other Great British Railways business units
GBR Anglia Managing Director Jamie Burles explains some of the challenges of merging Greater Anglia, c2c and Network Rail.
Welp it would seem they're lawyering about quite a lot actually...
At least it seems that it should be easier for future setups. Still I imagine the new act will allow for a lot of streamlining even further still.
I know TfW are really hoping they're able to benefit from the reduced legal requirements so they can properly merge TfW rail with the infrastructure team. They still have to send out lots of paperwork and wait for objections even though they're the only operator and there's not even freight anymore. I don't think there's even charters anymore either.
