Recent content by ManOnATrain

So it's basically useless if we only intend to visit big cities like Geneva and Zurich, because those are trams. Been looking at https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ What about when the purple (tram) lines turn into other lines?

Never used the FIP before: internet searching hasn't been enlightening. RailStaffTravel needs their IT bods to update search engine algorithms? How to use FIP for Switzerland? Need to book tickets in advance? Just rock up to get discount? German side initially, but may at some point do the...

Not possible, maximum line speed 125mph. If the line is speed is that max then going any higher surely risks derailment.

Well if I don't understand then tell me what collision speed guarantees a driver being alive after a coliision

If the entire nose cone was destroyed at 15mph, that means a dead driver at higher speed collisions. Not great. What's the maximum speed collision possible on the ECML?

Based on my personal experience of Northern Rail, the bad PR is totally justified. I've had trains come off depot still absolutely manky. I've had cancelled of 2 carriage trains trying to fit too many people on. I could go on but I'd really rather not. The Scotrail sets are a 100% percent...

I really hope that LNER will take note of the comments made on this forum with regards to comfort of the seats. If they're absolutely horrendous in first class, I can't imagine how much more uncomfortble they could get in standard! I wish they'd kept the leather seating from the old trains...

If I was a taxpaying 16 year old, I'd want a vote. I would be very annoyed at paying into a system I have no say in. In Scotland of course, I would get a say. Not atll 16 and 17 year olds given a vote will actually use it. I suppose by extension, we could say that child actors (as taxpayers)...

I'm surprised there isn't more discussion the fact that some train drivers earn over £80k and ASLEF is backed by the Labour party (or vice versa, I don't know) and that train drivers may be paying a subscription to Labour through their ASLEF deductions. So train drivers are supporting a party...

If I'm paying money for a service, then I'm entitled to use the aftersales/customer support to submit a complaint about the poor service I've received, regardless of whether or not they have my details on their database. Unfortunately, lots of companies won't register complaints without that...

I usually buy advance purchase tickets online and I don't agree that I have to have an account with a log in and password and they save all of my personal details on their database. I'd like to see a check-out where I just buy a ticket every time without logging in and them tracking my every...

Yeah that seems like a Data Protection issue to me.

Oh dear, that sounds like a breach of Data Protection. Did they really let you see all the names email addresses of the other people on your course?

Duplicate post.

Does the route even stop at Leeds? From the times I've been on this train, it goes Darlington/Durham - York - Doncaster. So maybe the people attached to the Leeds depot don't actually need to go there at all, and get parking at York.