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Do these units have any forward looking cameras?

Is there any particular reason why the new tri-axle double deckers will be 12.8m and the old one are 13.4m? Chassis changes? Axle weight implications? Is the new shorter length all within the wheelbase between the front axle and the forward most rear axle?

The 300 Southport and Liverpool takes a completely separate route to the X2 and 47. The 300 shares the Liverpool end of the route with the 310 as far as Maghull. The 508 (Summer Only) Penrith to Windermere runs Penrith - Patterdale - Windermere. The Penrith - Patterdale section is all year. The...

Both were shown as Edinburgh but I cannot remember if there was additional via info. eg. Edinburgh via WCML and Edinburgh via ECML or Edinburgh via Preston and Edinburgh via York - or maybe some other intermdiate location(s).

I remember that. My wife used to get the 10.00 Edinburgh via Preston as she was going to Lancaster. No end of people getting confused, especially the day the platform numbers changed back and forth one day because the WCML was late out if the depot It got fixed by one becoming xx.59 and the...

We had a holiday in this area of Denmark in 2019 and travelled on this line using a Copenhagen card. So below will be: 1 - a map of the lines - this map was readily available on several website and inside numerous train so well in the public domain. The image is part of the Greater Copenhagen...

I ask the RAIB and got the following reply from RAIB

In respect of doors reopening if you put your hand (or other item in the way), the 777s have vertical LED coloured strips in the door way that light up green or red or amber. I was in a car park lift in Calisle this week, and the lift has the same LED strips - if you put a hand, or other item...

One of the comments (not mine) on the Facebook post says So 5 cars to Southport were not not usual. However if a visit to Meols Cop was required, then a 5 car would run via Southport. And the other week, I was reviewing photos in The Cumbrian Railways Association photos collection and...

No. I don't remember ever travelling on a 5 car class 502 on Southport line in 50s and 60s before Sunday's got downgraded to 3 cars.

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I have just been reading Report 01/2026, issued March 2026, Passenger trapped and dragged at Ealing Broadway. A contributory factory was the congested nature of the platform particularly around the new waiting room - see Figure 17, para 141, page 34. It is clear the new waiting room obstructs...

Also the map in The Lakes booklet now covers a bigger area - all of Cumbria Inc Whitehaven, Carlisle and Barrow and Lancaster and Morecambe and out to Brampton

I remember Soutports as being 6 coach as standard

70+ pages Lakes Summer Timetable booklet is now out. I picked up a copy in Tullie, Carlisle today. So no doubt copies available in all the usual places. 1771868861 I thought 508 was 2 buses Penrith, one being the open top, and 1 bus Kendal.