Recent content by emoaconr

A chord at Smethwick Galton Bridge or Soho to allow Shrewsbury services to divert to Snow Hill lines

When Lime St was redesigned in the 80s, what is now platforms 1-5 (then 1-6) was segregated off into a paid area and branded as the "Merseyrail City Line" as all services routed there were local. This 'local' vs 'intercity' distinction has been lost since various changes, including the...

Typical descent into anti-Welsh bashing ensues as usual in this forum... ! All the better TfW stands apart from GBR. And in that note, is anyone even questioning the irrational "British" *cough* English *cough* nationalistic union flag plastered all Iver GBR's livery ? A flag which, surprise...

Fairly certain eventually it will become political self-destruction to support the UK Govt's continued control over Welsh rail infrastructure. The argument over HS2, EWR and NPR differentials still rumbles on - even within the governing Welsh Labour Party. WG's control over the CVL has not been...

The less muscular unionism, the better. Keep the TfW branding at arms length from anything Westminster cooks up. For all intents and purposes, GBR is just Rail England, and it would be easier for everyone if we just accepted that.

Indeed. See this video:

Good. Ruth needed to go. Her Welsh pronunciations were, quite frankly, substandard and embarrassing. I agree she gave it a good go and was pretty fair at pronouncing the most widely-known Welsh names such as Llandudno, Aberystwyth etc, but many of these were re-recorded, and many rural...

These were replaced by Serco/Abello Northern on behalf of Merseytravel. The pre-2016 Northern Logo was on the bottom right, now covered over with white tape.

I suspect maybe a combination, but nothing has been publicly set in stone - also this article suggests NR could close them pending the opening of the new bridges, suggesting introducing new services is the priority...

The consultations with respect to crossings near Abergele & Pensarn suggested NR will allow new services to start from May, with temporary restrictions/solutions on the current level crossing until the bridge opens. Plans are all pretty much complete now.

In and around Llandudno/Conwy, Llandudno Junction station is almost always referred to as 'Junction'. Abergele & Pensarn is often known as just 'Pensarn' station to locals. In Wrexham, stations are usually referred to as 'General' and 'Central'.

Whether that be the case or not, they have been branded as Merseyrail City Line since the 1970s, these days complete with yellow and black signage, Merseyrail station furniture and fully-staffed ticket offices. Merseytravel continues to take responsibility of the City Line stations in reality -...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/broad-green-station-liverpool-refurbishment.248746/ Just demonstrates the lack of urgency for projects of a specific local importance by a regional TOC. The state of Northern's stations in Greater Manchester quite literally...

I saw this, in addition to this article on the Liverpool Echo. I at first thought that this was a journalistic error and that that it was Merseytravel who had taken over the project management - but it is actually indeed Merseyrail (Electrics 2002 Ltd) who have been delegated responsibility by...

Yet again, another thread descends into the usual Anglophile anti-Welsh sentiment, detached from any semblance of relevance to this forum or thread. Linguistic purism is futile and there's a very obvious reason why many parts of the world are hesitant to allow their own cultures to be subsumed...