Recent content by khib70

While the Sunday Post is undoubtedly a vehement critic of the SNP, it is a million miles away from "traditionally Labour". It is and always was, rampantly Conservative with both a small and capital 'c'. Its hostility to the SNP stems from its dogmatic Unionism. It is a product of the ultra...

Hi. Have bumped this thread rather than start a new one. I've just bought two 1st Advance singles from Edinburgh to Manchester on March 17th with TPE,a journey I make regularly. I notice that no reservation has been provided. According to this thread, this was supposed to stop happening in...

Beeching's flawed methodology undoubtedly closed a few lines that shouldn't have been closed. But most of those have reopened in response to a sustainable business case. There were other factors which killed off branchline railways, not the least of them being overstaffing. Nostalgia sites are...

Well said, and I share your sense of frustration. Looking at a lot of enthusiast sites on Facebook, they're peppered with ridiculous and unviable projects - Port Road, Hawick-Carlisle, and Glenfarg heading the list. I've even seen someone advocating the re-opening of the utterly useless Lauder...

Just not true. Here in Edinburgh a fair number of routes are running on a 15-30 minute frequency on New Year's day. In addition to Lothian services there are also journeys on the (Lothian owned) East Coast and Lothian COuntry routes...

There's far too many of you bitter and twisted Labourites on this thrread, still trying to come to terms with becoming an insignificant minority party in a country you once saw as a rotten borough. If stupid point-scoring against the SNP is all you can contribute, don't bother, eh?:roll:

So you wouldn't be in any way shocked if you saw a 3 year old run on to a working main line?

So are you advocating the death penalty for trespassing on the railway, or for having mental health issues, or both?:roll:

As a resident of Edinburgh, I can tell you who definitely isn't Europe's best tram operator:evil:

Just heard from a friend who's travelling on the Borders steam excursion today. Apparently there are signalling problems and the special is stuck somewhere in the Borders. Don't have any more details but sounds like that would bring the line to a standstill. Must be long term because my friend...

More spin from TfE here. I'm travelling the length of Princes St twice a day and the trams in both directions are rarely more than half full, even at the peaks. The "evidence" in this story is a quote from an unidentified "commuter", who coincidentally says exactly what TfE's spindoctors would...

You guys just can't help yourselves, can you? Any actual evidence that Virgin were at fault for this failure of NR infrastructure? Thought not. Funny how you never saw the saintly EC getting ripped into every time the knitting came down, eh? It may well be a defective VTEC unit responsible...

Indeed. Can't believe we've got people baying for prosecution of people for using mobile phones or listening to music. By all means run trains like mobile 1960's public libraries. Just don't expect anyone normal to use them, or any money to be made. The police state mentality in full baying cry...

Wow, that took a whole 11 posts. I suspect you're too young to have ever dealt with a BR ticket office. Whatever else BR was, it certainly wasn't customer-focused!

Of course he does. But this is too obvious an opportunity for a good old UK Rail Forums Branson bash. A great chance for people to make the pickle joke for the 400th time, and the silly Beardy jibes for the 4000th. And fling in the obligatory rants about Pendolinos and Voyagers, despite their...