Recent content by AdamWW

Does anyone know an email address to contact Transport for Wales with a query about buses? If I follow the links on their web site all I can find is lots of TfW Rail stuff, and email addresses for Fflecsi, Trawscymru and traveline.... (And before someone points it out, this is something...

Also some long distance trains passing through as well as MARC which operates local services into Maryland with a somewhat more European-like level of service than VRE. It has a mix of high and low level platforms. I believe that some of the trains it serves can only use high level platforms...

I note that underneath the poster referring to the "yellow" reader is a reader which is entirely covered by an advert for Chase which is not yellow. That doesn't seem entirely passenger-friendly to me.

Yes - I think a large part of the problem is building over stations and thus converting bare but not particularly unpleasant exposed platforms into something subterranean that is a lot less nice (particularly if you breathe air).

Possibly I have the wrong end of the stick but I thought I'd read that the Dutch government were keen on the direct Eurostar service rather than it being a purely commercial decision by Eurostar.

Indeed. Yes, there's a different philosophy where platforms are often considered something much more distinct from the station building than is usual in Europe and you're not expected to hang around on them for long. But still.....there's a difference between being basic and just downright grotty.

Yes - not much downstairs in a seating coach - it's just a handful of seats (which mostly just compensate for the seats missing upstairs where the stairs are - and some don't even have the downstairs seats), the stairs and a rather large collection of toilets which of course would need to be...

Yes I see your logic. But if that's the intended meaning, then I go back to my original statement that it's a bit of a mess. In my view a contract should not start "This contract is formed when X happens" with an implicit "plus at other times that we couldn't be bothered mentioning here and...

It looks like it does to me. By a contract, yes - I've already said so. Just like eating in a restaurant. But when on the first page the NRCoT says my non legal brain struggles to see how it could be interpreted as intending to form this contract under any circumstance other than having...

But how can something in a contract which specifically states at the start is made when you buy a ticket apply when you haven't bought a ticket?

The Renaissance stock doesn't work like that, having been built for European services. But that's OK as there's enough space outside the coach for the steps to fold out as the coaches are somewhat narrower than normal North American stock. Of course it does leave a bit of a gap at high...

Personally I think the NRCoT is a bit of a mess. It purports to be a contract that comes into place when a ticket is purchased. So what validity do the terms describing when you can legitimately board a train without a ticket have? I would buy the argument that the mere act of boarding a...

Though it appears that these can also get booked up at busy times too. Last year I caught the narrow gauge train from Santander to Bilbao on a Sunday evening and my fellow passengers included a family who had arrived from the UK and had planned to go by coach. They didn't book tickets...

I see what you mean. I thought you meant that the steps were entirely external. When deployed part of the steps are still inside the train under where the step-plate normally is. Anyway VIA's Budd coaches (built in the 1950's) have a similar design - with movable steps - and I doubt that the...

The step-plate covers internal steps. This must have replicated an earlier design - i don't think Amtrak "heritage" coaches are limited to low platforms only. I think the US must have had a mixture of platform heights for rather a while.