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A bus along the East Lancs to connect places like Moss Bank, Carr Mill, Haydock and Laffak into Newton for commuting to Manchester make a big difference, especially a semi-express that had perhaps five or six stops along the way and so didn't take twice as long as driving. Of course, a Carr...

I'm assuming that 1tp2h would be the longer-term target, possibly alternating between Glasgow and Edinburgh (though there will be a direct 1tph Liverpool-Edinburgh via Newcastle, so maybe they'll only do Glasgow via WCML).

I thought Liverpool-Glasgow was going to go via St Helens Central?

I used to commute daily from Newton-le-Willows to Manchester and I drove from Moss Bank (because there is free parking at NLW and there isn't in Wigan). The expanded car park is a good idea; I ended up parking in the car park on Park Road and then cutting through the woods because there was no...

The intended timetable will be three Liverpool-Manchester and two Warrington-Manchester trains per hour, ie five to Manchester and three to Liverpool. It's a pity that the Liverpool - Warrington Bank Quay service can't stop at Newton-le-Willows to provide a fourth service to Liverpool. It stops...

Manchester-London on WCML is about the same as Glasgow-London on HSR would be with HSR all the way, so it's a reasonably fair comparison. The only flights to London now are those to Heathrow for transfers onto long-haul flights. There used to be flights to LGW, LCY and STN at least - not sure...

Went through NLW station recently and noticed scaffolding up. Wondering what was being done, and I found this on the Merseytravel site: https://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/about-us/local-transport-delivery/Pages/Newton-le-Willows.aspx It looks like quite a lot of work being done, and I might pop...

If there are wires on the MML from Derby to Toton to Nottingham, then a few EMUs could provide a fast, frequent service connecting the two cities to Toton HS2. Even 6tph is only five or six units given how short a run it is. Leicester is more difficult to serve well from Toton, given how far...

OK, here's an outline of how a lot of European city transport systems work - a bit idealised, but some of the best are much like this. You get an integrated ticket, so a single ticket includes as many buses/trams/trains as you need to get to where you're going. It might be a zonal fare system...

I've ridden all three types of Eurostar in the last few months, and comparing the e300 to e320 (which is a fairly close comparison, since they have the same seats, design of overhead rack, etc) the really noticeable thing is that the higher roof makes it possible to put considerably larger...

That would depend on seating layout. It's possible that the wider captive trains could allow for seating along more of the length of the carriage. Even if you only add one row of seats per carriage, that's 30 over an 8-car 200m unit. (assuming 6 standard and 2 first class carriages). The most...

The preference for a uniform order doesn't mean the preference is for a uniform fleet. The number of CC units in use on Phase 1 is very similar to the number needed for Phase 2. Phase 2 adds the London-Newcastle, Birmingham-Newcastle and London-Sheffield (and possibly Birmingham-Sheffield)...

In a retro-fit, it'd be a hell of a lot easier (expensive, mind) to run a new tunnel from Old Oak Common to the St Pancras approaches and put your junction above ground there - there's already a connector from HS1 onto the NLL there, which is almost unused (there's an occasional freight, I...

Agreed, but then I'm 6'5" (198cm) and need more legroom than most.

When you're getting off a crowded 142, the person behind you who can actually reach the button will push it without having to be asked. That the doors will slide or open outwards like every other train so you can stand in the doorwell.