Recent content by ole17

The project updates have been progressing wonderfully and quickly, can't wait for the separate fast and slow lines to come between dewsbury and huddersfield to get rid of the northern/TPE tug-of-war asap. From the updates at deighton, the extended pilling works for the station looks to be all...

Since the WY Metro hasn't fully brought bus services in-house like the Bee network, if the same scenario were to happen in manchester ROC, is the mutual ticket acceptance from TOC for local bus trips happening or happened already? This is an area where DfT policy in light of GBR should look to...

All transport networks and systems should be built by engineers and town planners, not accountants or politicians at the end of the day. In USA, their obsession with having cars move freely postwar, led them to "efficient" fast-flowing interstate networks and large grade-separated junctions...

I usually prefer to be a bystander to arguments such as this, but i will add my two cents to this routine slight niggle of GB rail operations, that generally train timeliness seems strangled by the many other facets of operations that could also improve it (probably mentioned previously so...

I do hope that the direction of the barriers are changed to allow people exiting and entering the station to not have to criss cross each other, especially at the area next to platform 8 where this is frequent especially at peak times

Train wifi should be more of a reliable internet alternative to 4G rather than high-speed as of now, especially to the travelling office workers on their Outlook. Also its easy to bypass filtering by installing apps that directs your device to use a specific 3rd-party DNS server eg. cloudflare...

Who are you proposing to run this relief service? Price? You'd probably only hope for a badly delayed congestion on the transpennine section to be able to have a good demand.

They've been doing that for at least the past 6 months when I've frequently passed through it. Sometimes, including yesterday, the barriers are also open during evening rush hr too. I've noticed yesterday that there was a guy in suit sitting at the help desk facing the barriers as well...

The footbridge at wakefield westgate could be found literally 'covered' with multiple "book direct with us!" related boards on the bit of the wall below the windows, even though it's on the paid side of station already and nobody ever looks at it since it's very low below eye level. Not...

Thanks for your insight. Surely if there needs to be an increase passenger comfort, the organisation involved in setting the specs for the new trains should be involved as well. Or maybe not..... Interesting to note that the RSSB tender (RSSB2655) involves trying to define parameters for...

capacitance is more of a physics term, if you didnt know, referring to an ability to store electricity in this case. Everyone has a tiny bit of it, which is how your smartphone's touch screen works when you touch it, incidentally. In the case of the 'pigeon', its 'stored electricity' would (i...

Not if a frequent and reliable service was provided to most of the popular destinations out of them. Size of a station is not always directly related to the no. of services and seats that someone does provide out of them. Plus, providing a transport infrastructure starts from transport...

One day, the railways will appoint a 'passenger comfort' team who specifically look after how well the seats are and what the interior should be to enhance passenger experience. Just like the airlines:lol:. I think the railways have gotten much more media attention than needed. Very robotic as...

Exactly why network rail bosses have to come out in-person during bank/christmas holiday works and show people that he cares about 'on-time' infrastructure works, when just a few years ago this never happened. The public (most) know who to complain when infrastructure works are delayed, now they...

Can I ask how stable are these 'gravity pads'? They look as if the mast could be blown over if a strong hurricane (unlikely of course!) were to blow.