Recent content by etc9

Hello, Would appreciate some advice on ticket validity. I travel every now and then from the Cheshunt/Enfield Town branch of the Weaver line to Stansted Airport. The quickest way for me to do this is to change to the Victoria line at Seven Sisters for a one stop hop to Tottenham Hale. I have...

You assume I don't. Obviously I'm not a regular poster on these forums, but I do read them a fair amount. In general I find that this site has lots of very well informed commentary. A notable exception to this is the mythology surrounding how DfT award franchises. It is really not that...

Why are you so sure that this is the case?

Nope, they haven't. Probably the bid with the highest premium, as the rolling stock element of the bids will have been scored very similarly for new trains and old trains refurbed to a high standard.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/461470/east-anglia-invitation-to-tender.pdf This was the ITT wording on the East Anglia competition, which was designed to encourage high quality refurbs. This was in the context of the 321 Renatus...

For reference the exact wording (in the context of an article about the Crossrail 345s) was as follows: Very welcome news if they've got it wrong though, because I think solely longitudinal on WA services would be quite unpleasant. EDIT: Sorry - quite off-topic!

According to Modern Railways, the Aventras on West Anglia LO services will have entirely longitudinal seating. So even more "metro" than the ones on Crossrail or the S8s.

315809 now has Abellio seat covers, which is surprising. I thought these units would just be left to decline until the LOROL/MTR Crossrail takeover. EDIT: Apologies for being an archetypal newbie. Just realised that there's a thread on this already...