Recent content by JamesP

You're salivating at this, aren't you? Absolutely loving it.

I had a pair of 156s when I used the route a few weeks back and we ended up over 15m late into Picc purely from delays because it was too long to get on most of the platforms.

The area of Seaton Carew was named after the Carou family, a Norman family who owned much of the land.

That's at least the third track fault in the loop in the last couple of weeks.

Indeed. At Chester the incoming terminating service would often be held for a couple of minutes north of the station until the previous departing service had left, then have the best part of 15 minutes turnaround time when it arrived.

Decent suggestion by the OP, I think. No surprise that it hasn't gone down well with the 'how dare you suggest that something could be improved on the railway brigade', one person in particular, as usual.

I've been using Merseyrail 2-3 times a week over the past months or so and not once have I seen an RPI on a train. Though I always travel off peak, whether that makes a difference or not?

The reasons for cancellation being given at Euston yesterday were 'due to a member of train crew being unavailable'.

Still going on this morning if JourneyCheck is anything to go by.

I've seen it often on journeys from Chester/North Wales to Euston.

The fatality at Levenshulme last week resulted in multiple police vehicles rushing to the station and it being completely closed off for a time, which led to much speculation on social media that it was something more sinister than someone being hit by a train, especially given that the local...

I was on the train involved, the 0840 from Euston. Ended up 80 late into Piccadilly. The TM was very good, helpfully advertised Delay Repay and how to claim it which I've not always noticed in such circumstances previously.

The 150 I was on this morning had the end third of one of the coaches configured in that way.

I'm fairly sure it happened on the Wirral Line when the Open Golf was at Hoylake, trains terminated at Hoylake instead of West Kirby.

I got on 1D89 at Crewe, the 16:49 to Chester which had been started from Milton Keynes, of the 5 coaches I reckon at least 3 were completely empty when it arrived at Crewe. We were then 20-odd minutes late leaving due to waiting for both a Train Manager and a Driver who'd been delayed en route.