Recent content by StewLane

If only the 810s were reliable then 2 5car 810 interworking would move maintenance to Derby. Would require ordering 810s and Etches Park probably does not have space either. Would reduce the number of different fleets too. not going to happen and I see no easy solution to Corby

Reminds me of the wartime Dazzle livery on warships. Not sure that the doors stand out now which some users may find difficult.

They look like average speed cameras that we have in Derby

Parked up outside Derby Arena on a low loader today

So 6 tube lines, multiple Thameslink destinations, HS1, Eurostar and the British Library are not enough reasons that St Pancras is a better destination than Euston with just 2 tube lines (another 2 if you leave the station and walk up the Euston Road)? I still maintain the connection to East...

Euston is not where I and many others want to go in London. Any time saving to London from Derby is lost when I then have to get to St Pancras for Eurostar or HS1 to Kent. Derby/Nottingham and Leicester still need MML fast services to London. I think we are forgetting that HS2 was about...

I was assuming this related to the foot crossing to the nature reserve that has a history of fatalities

The have been a lot of accidents at Attenborough crossing

Ticket purchased but no email confirmatio. I have received an email from Link.com asking me to confirm my email address but this looks like a scam. It does not mention Greatest Gathering and searching link.com suggest they are gathering email addresses Update Tickets now arrived so Link.com was...

It’s like they have never organised a ticket sale before. Selling tickets online should be a lot easier than this after many years of event tickets being sold in this way. 4 times I got to the Add tickets screen Got to the screen to complete my details once but clicking on the payment screen...

Twice got to the Add to basket page and it crashed. What a shambles

Thanks

CRU is the 3 letter designation of Falls of Cruachan station. Confusing that it is also being used for Craignure.

Thanks everyone for the replies. suspect that DC motors may not be being overhauled as the plan is to replace them but they are failing faster than they are being replaced

So they are not able to use any serviceable DC motors that come off trains being converted to AC motors or are there just not enough being replaced?