Recent content by James268

Who's co-ordinating what routes, station calls, ticket acceptance? Then ageeing a rate, driver, unit. Not happening. Those that sit behind a desk and then say GeT cOAcHeS. Those that work in the industry........ is what it is.

Where would you like the coaches and drivers to come from? There are not busses and drivers stitting around waiting for this to happen.

And Rochdale is enirely blocked. That service has been sat at (or near) Smithy Bridge for 50 mins. This has shown as gone into the bay on platform 2. I do wonder when that was last used? https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:G89225/2026-08-06/detailed#allox_id=1 This is sat on the...

Had a walk down and the area is *just* about visible from the bridge. It could take a while.

As said above it'll mean units trapped running Rochdale - Shaw shuttles, assuming the overhead power can be isolated in the closed area. Crew will have to be taxi'd to and from the depot. If any of the units fail or need maintenance while the closure is on then it'll be a nightmare. Are there...

Got caught up in this last night going from Piccadilly to Chesterfield. Was waiting for this service https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C77180/2023-04-29/detailed#allox_id=0 While it sat and sat at Oxford road we were all advised to go to Victoria and travel via Leeds which after a...

Just search Kirby and set it to latest, scroll til one pops up. It will come and go on different pages so any link posted will be gone in a matter of time anyway.

Yeah, figured there would be, but the challenge would be finding the most stops/longest. I guess we have the winner of the longest! Didn't take long :lol:

Having traveled on a Northern service the other day, I noticed that it ran RT all the way along the route. This got me wondering what is the longest service that departed every station stop RT or early. We shall go for 2 categories; the longest in miles and also the most amount of stops. For...

Not sure on the actual revenue, but the flights to Spain are heavily loaded at weekends. Birmingham also have some routes to Spain and Milan and they have a good PAX load but only at weekends. Weekdays can have 20-30PAX on an E175

The unit has to return to longsight depot anyway. Would be a large amount of unnecessary cost. Organising buses at 2am on a friday night/saturday morning within a reasonable time just isn't going to happen.

Last time I traveled on this there was a 2 car pacer waiting in the platform engine running but locked out. http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/Y62770/2017/05/27/advanced This above unit then couples to it to form a 4 car and all carriages are in use. It's heavily loaded for that time...

The swaying between Bury and Radcliffe was...violent! So much so that the first time I rode it I had genuine concern that we would de-rail. Recently the ride quality has been okay. Nothing overly jarring. I believe the trams may have had some suspension modifications to combat this. Don't...

They're on RTT. http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/advanced/BPN/to/YRK/2017/05/22/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt EDIT: And the returns: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/advanced/YRK/to/BPN/2017/05/22/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt

Slightly OT, but kinda relevant. Our phones at work run fast, gaining about a minute a fortnight until they run about 12-15 mins fast then suddenly one morning they are on time again. They are Alcotel units for a large retail company. It's such a problem that we've even began to place bets...