Recent content by David Bullock

I travel pretty frequently between Leeds and Manchester, and this is something I sort of hope GBR will eventually deal with. The whole point of the cheaper fares is to move people onto less busy services. In reality what it does is encourage people on to a short formed 195 which is already...

I’m not convinced it’s methodologically sound to completely omit Elizabeth line data when doing comparisons with 2019. A new railway opened and loads of people are using it, that is significant for the railway. It’s also not the case that all of the journeys are ones which would have otherwise...

I think it would be politically much harder to convince people to lose direct services to destinations south of Birmingham. Increased journey times and having to change trains at Birmingham new street would probably discourage people from taking the train

It’s avoiding the risk of full, stranded trains with no a/c and limited water. Working from home isn’t an option for lots of people and I do think it is daft to suggest. Again this is all about money and government - in the long term gvt will either have to pay to improve infrastructure to...

It brings it roughly in line with the fast Edinburgh-Glasgow post-electrification, but with 50% higher frequency which will knock a further 5 mins off door to door journey times.

The only real way to reduce costs is to reduce staffing, and they can try to impose a round of redundancies but the unions will probably have something to say. Especially as passenger growth is very strong. £15m is a small proportion of TPEs revenue of £250m and an even smaller proportion of...

Others have listed necessary interventions. Looking at a map and a few crayons I reckon there might be some benefit to building bypasses around Peterborough and Doncaster, as well as bypassing the twisty bit between Darlington and Newcastle which would probably lead to marginal journey time...

I think I’ve seen in mentioned that holding everyone in the main concourse at KGX is a risk mitigation thing in case a train fails to stop at the buffers. And I suspect against platform overcrowding. Not sure if something similar is in place at BPN but could be an answer

I once saw Saltash on the side of an LNER class 80x at Leeds. I am guessing all trains from the Intercity Express Programme have all GWR and LNER destinations in their PIS

I I am surprised that the they think that the 93 isnt powerful enough - I was under the impression the night riviera was only about 8 carriages and the timetable is very generous in terms of padding.

Iirc they ran doubles during industrial action when it was all kicking off. I remember seeing a pair running together over marsh lane viaduct while waiting for a bus

I am guessing there wouldn’t be an issue with using 9 car azumas and 10 car 810s. Same half hourly frequency from sheff and notts but longer trains. A 9 car azuma is 234m so would fit at STP

im not sure its all 'the tail wagging the dog' - making sure that these delays are not transmitted across the national network does sort of depend on these trains presenting as planned at leeds and manchester as these are the major bottlenecks where lots of bits of the network converge. If it...

Castleford recently had a second platform open

For a city of its size Bradford has pretty woeful connections by rail. It has in excess of half a million people and there are towns in Yorkshire much smaller with better connections. Poor mobility will be a contributing factor to the concentration of employment and leisure into Leeds...