Recent content by Boppawombat

Gary "Trophy Handles" Lineker then!

I just find it hard to comprehend that it has taken them over 25 years to finally approve the construction of the Ordsall (nee Castlefield) Curve that allows direct running between Picc and Vic. BUT! Then they have to consider the fact that the stretch between Deansgate and Picc is already at...

I find it hard to believe that it would be Des Lynam who would be so uptight that he would be swearing his head off...... but in a perverse sort of way I'd be very tickled indeed if it was him!! :)

To be fair, we are not passengers on trains, neither are we customers..... we're just cattle!

Oh, right.... what rankles with me a little is that on the issue of new rolling stock, which was initially slated in for 2014, which would be exactly 35 years since the 507s first rolled off the production line (entering service on the Northern line in early 1980), but now probably 2015-16 at...

Re: the luggage racks, perhaps they assume that the taller passengers can sit on one side of the train so that they don't bang their heads when they stand up. :lol:

Agree. Your points are completely valid. Have you put any of your grievances - and suggestions - to Merseyrail, like I do so frequently?

Rail replacement bus services are frankly a law unto themselves.... don't even get me started on them. Not even Merseyrail can work them out!!! ;)

What's that supposed to mean? Why hasn't your contribution to this discussion been shot down by the king of all knowledge that calls itself Nonsense?

I don't see why you both should be quite so self righteous about this. After all, it's true isn't it? What's wrong with somebody telling it like it is? Are you both so intelligent and frankly above everybody else new to this forum - and one of you only joined the day before I did - that you...

Sorry if I strayed off into another area with that digression, but I was just continuing on from your remarks about the scruffy state of the trains on Merseyrail so I merely pointed out that they were scruffy because some people just don't respect their surroundings, hence I brought up the...

To be fair though - please don't take this like I am defending Merseyrail to the hilt, I'm not, they are deserving of equal amounts of criticism and praise - it is not Merseyrail's fault that a fair minority of the passengers that use its services around LIverpool and the Wirral are skanky...

Back in the 1980s, several routes were planned for electrification as 'low cost schemes' with the minimum amount of fuss and bother. These were often very popular diversionary routes, of which several existed in the West Midlands - notably the line from Grand Junction just east of Birmingham via...

Hmmmmm..... it's one of those odd ones.... a bit 'belt and braces' to some methinks! By telling us that the next station is X or Y is enough to suggest that the train is going to call at that particular point, without the need to emphasise it with the additional word 'stop'. Surely...

You should try being on the frontline at our Ferry terminal - where all manner of rude types come up and deliberately test your mettle! :)