Recent content by BurtonM

All the lighting poles etc at Stalybridge have been painted grey with yellow stripes - I’m a bit confused as to why, as they were blue before. The station is still carrying TPE branding. Is it a Bee Network thing? It looks like Merseytravel colours.

MCC have been aggressively making it harder to drive in the city centre for 10 years. Lately, Tameside have taken to putting absolutely massive speed bumps everywhere, even on 30mph roads. It's ridiculous.

156420 'La'al Ratty', wearing its Ravenglass and Eskdale promotional livery, was another questionable one from Northern in my eyes - the unit wasn't often up the Cumbrian Coast as IIRC it generally works out of Newton Heath(!), and I can't imagine the name meant much to most people, particularly...

If you'd sent the QR, the site should be able to read it and pull all the ticket data - they'd have accepted that... If all you have is three of these - fair enough, that's not a split ticket, and I'm not sure why TPE think it is (this what I meant when I said they're not the most...

The forum's booking engine is a version of Trainsplit, so it could well be a split ticket that was partially missing from the claim or entered incorrectly. You need to upload every single ticket for your whole journey after you specify your itinerary - at step 3 of the claim tick 'yes' to 'are...

Manchester Metrolink is even better - you can 'prime' the doors by pressing the button at any time, the button flashes green, and then the door opens next time the driver releases them.

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Because there's at least five years of daily, active use left in Sprinters based on the Angel lease extensions, and the fact the procurement process for the replacements is only just getting out of the gate... Plus, for what it takes to remove the vinyls and stick one new one on (couple of heat...

GBR graphics on the base Northern livery? History's repeating - reminds me of the early days of Serco/Abellio Northern when there was a ragtag mix of Merseyrail, FNW, Metro-Train, Northern Spirit, and god knows what else all running around with hastily applied Northern logos by the doors. Funny...

I wouldn't call that detailed.

They'd better not start charging for the bike space, it's bad enough having to reserve it on TPE.

There are pretty limited staff at MCV in the late evening, and they aren't the most helpful. I agree that the right thing to do is probably keep pushing at Northern then if it comes to it, get a deadlock letter to take them to the Ombudsman. I wouldn't call the Ombudsman process 'stressful'...

Gipsy Hill had Southern signage, so it would have had a white border...

Canada Water?

What, exactly like Northern 150s are now?