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It gets used quite frequently between Market Harborough and Kilby Bridge if there's signalling or train problems - it is a bit temperamental though with it being prone to getting "stuck" in the wrong direction when used.

It was Nottingham crews for at least 20 years, then changed to Norwich in May, prompting the usual panic to make sure they were all current on it. In practice it's usually just refreshed on route refresh days by watching a short video. Nothing really to it! Most crew at both depots sign it.

The issue appears to be that the Railbus portion of the fare is not senior railcard discountable, hence doesn't display any fares. The Railbus fare seems to have most value as a return within a month period return rather than a day ticket with the supplement being £5.40 single or £10.80 return...

Lincoln and Hykeham following a series of improvements to services - two trains an hour on the Nottingham line all day and direct services to London. Hykeham has also had an increase in local businesses with a lot of rail commuters.

The lack of excessive heat is naturally helping a lot with things like the engines and air conditioning. Other issues still occurring.

It can, but maybe not at even half hourly spacings with some waits being needed.

About 140 seats on a 2 car 158 and 180 on a 3 car 170. The 3 car 170 has far more luggage space than a 158 though.

Could be - but it's a huge number for a 15 year old to reach!

More 3 car 170s have been deployed on Liverpool - Norwich services with the 158s swapped to Skegness.

A fine of over 3 grand would be worthy of the news, something will be amiss there. It's about 10 times the usual amount imposed by a court for the offence and it won't have gone that far yet.

Newquay is a shortish branch conveniently interfacing with the mainline. Skegness is a long way away from it's nearest mainline at Grantham and I can't imagine LNER would be remotely interesting in trundling a train at 50 and 60 mph tops all the way to Skegness whilst the regular summer...

Sadly it's not really a good income though. The numbers are an error on the spreadsheet, it's a near 5 hour round trip for the units so is resource heavy, the fares under the present system don't really make much money for the business unit providing the service. The through fares are fairly...

Ultimately if you get off on posting videos of dangerous driving etc there's a fair argument that you're beyond saving anyway. In my town there is a big problem with balaclava'd teenagers stealing motorbikes, riding them dangerously around town and filming the whole process for social media...

Depends what you call home. Salisbury has been the shortest time period it's been allocated to a depot. I think it spent about 15 years allocated to Heaton, 9 years at Salisbury and 11 years at Eastcroft.

That finished with the end of the South West Trains franchise in 2017 or so, the lease formally transferred to EMT then.