Recent content by John R

It's not part of the project unfortunately.

Yes, pay the amount requested (technically not a fine, but it feels like one), and the matter is resolved once and for all, without a prosecution.

Our experience is that when offering out of court settlement amounts, it’s very usual that the company threatening to prosecute includes suspicious journeys on other company’s services in determining the settlement amounts. (Where they bother to do a data trawl that is, which is not all the time.)

Or more realistically, dwell times increase as people take longer to get off and on, which has an impact on reliability and capacity through the core.

So what is the work that is no longer planned? Are you able to say?

It would appear to be 6 diagrams.

A quick check seems to show the class covering all the Pontypridd to Bay diagrams again today. So maybe 3 units out is now the norm. The fourth diagram to be covered will be very interesting!

It's hardly unusual though. Think of the PR surrounding the heavily delayed Class 810s or the Class 701s.

Given that you’ve come to the railway’s attention before for not having the correct ticket, you may need to work a little harder than usual in persuading GTR that you are not going to continue evading the correct fare.

Unfortunately you have two choices. Either pay up, or face prosecution and be found guilty (because you are), which will result in a conviction (which most people are very keen to avoid), and a fine and costs which are very likely to exceed the offer made to you. It’s galling when it was an...

3-0 to Arsenal I gather… 1787004277 I’m sure it would have been held back if penalties were needed. And it’s not that tight as there is plenty of time for many of those in the South end of the stadium lower tiers to get to the station. And GWR would wait until it was at least reasonably full...

No, that’s what they are currently in the process of procuring, but they won’t be available until after 2030, as the press release clearly states.

Unlikely, as they won’t have any spare EMUs to run on it.

Well if the full complement needed for the Pontypridd to Bay service will be in operation on Wednesday then I’d say it’s not at all unlikely that one or two will venture further north by the autumn solstice. And that particular poster was even suggesting that the whole fleet should be...

Great to hear. Given all the doom and gloom we were hearing about the units from one contributor (who has gone strangely quiet for the last month), it's really positive that there seems to be slow but steady progress in rolling the units out.