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yorksrob's latest activity
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yorksrob posted the thread The cost of living agenda - how should the railway contribute ? in Speculative Discussion.We now have a new Prime Minister and he is quite rightly (IMO) prioritising cost of living issues in policy. The question is, how should... -
yorksrob replied to the thread Stratford Fire 10/08 - They Won’t Refund Me!.They need to be brought to heel in that case, given that they're running national railway services.
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yorksrob replied to the thread December 2026 Timetable Change.That's better news then. Hopefully something will feed through from the Whitby line to Leeds at a reasonable time, but we'll have to see.
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yorksrob replied to the thread Winding back the railway clock.If I were catching a plane, I'd build in a lot more buffer time anyway, however that's an extremely rare occurrence for me.
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yorksrob replied to the thread Publicity and the Launch of the (Fleet) Jubilee line.I'me glad they stuck with the name. "The Jubilee line" sounds a bit more fancy.
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yorksrob replied to the thread Stratford Fire 10/08 - They Won’t Refund Me!.Is this a TfL thing as on the proper railway it shouldn't make any difference as to whether the delay was "out of their control".
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yorksrob replied to the thread December 2026 Timetable Change.TPE appears to have given up on Middlesbrough in timetable 095. There appears to be nothing whatsoever between the 19:14 departure...
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yorksrob replied to the thread Winding back the railway clock.Indeed, yet for rail's main competitor there's no requirement at all to book a slot months in advance. I think the railway...
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yorksrob replied to the thread Additional Southeastern High Speed services.I would ask whether everyone is so keen to get to KX, or whether you could instead relieve that service by having faster trains to...
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yorksrob replied to the thread Tactiles Melting?.Carnforth has finally got concrete tactile paving recently, and I don't recall the platform being closed for ages. Maybe the sticky...
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yorksrob replied to the thread Reopenings - the positive narrative the railway industry needs !.The point is that these are much more cost- effective and immediate compared to the grandes projects. I've not done a comparison in...
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yorksrob replied to the thread Reopenings - the positive narrative the railway industry needs !.The problem is that it takes shed loads of money to reopen a passenger railway in England such as this. For someone to say it takes...
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yorksrob replied to the thread Settle and Carlisle Line.The S&C is definitely not one of the routes that gives me headaches trying to get decent value for money.
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yorksrob replied to the thread Reopenings - the positive narrative the railway industry needs !.It's a frequent (yes, half-hourly is frequent) passenger service that exists where there was none a few years ago. That's about as...
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yorksrob replied to the thread GTR Summer Holiday Cancellations.Indeed. We need more of the working classes spending.