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Bus replacement (or more accurately, telling people to make other arrangements) was oddly between Hooton and Hamilton Square, not sure why they didn't run through the loop to Rock Ferry which is one of the places they often terminate during disruption.

Edinburgh to Glasgow, even just considering the Falkirk High line, has gone from 2tph with 4-6 coaches to 4tph with 8 coaches.

The Kinghorn Tunnel is really just an engineering challenge, but probably expensive enough not to bother and can just be left as it's not very long. The Bridges are a solvable engineering challenge, but a much greater visual and political challenge. It's actually masts on the end viaducts I...

Do the BEMUs have lower power output on batteries than under wires, as if so infill electrification of sections where they need to accelerate, particularly uphill. The current strategy seems to be deploying a minimum viable product level electrification on Fife & Borders, then presumably to...

769s are not a great solution for the Fife Circle as the interior is significantly worse than the 170s/158s they'd be replacing, so the only real benefit would be capacity. However they are 80m long so can't run in multiple as the platforms are generally something like 147m long (suitable for...

I thought all the platforms had been extended to fit, Green Lane will always be tight but the end carriage doors are far enough in that if the stop in the right place it should be ok. It managed 6 car 507/8s. The other solution would be to make Ellesmere Port run every 15 minutes which would...

Given that compatible barriers have now been installed at Lime Street, could the standalone validators which were previously there not now be moved to the accessible gate at the Chester gateline?

The length of routes these trains would be operating is very similar to the 385s so full tables would be sensible as the half ones don't save much space and are fairly pointless if you're in an aisle seat, but the interiors on the 170s they're replacing are quite similar to the 385s, the 158s...

The standard 170 layout was pretty good for the longer (20-60min) suburban routes, would hope it's broadly the same, 2+2 with a mix of tables and airline seats.

[3] could be resolved somewhat by setting all doors automatically opening on release at the Underground stations, plus other main stations such as Birkenhead Central, Green Lane, Conway and Birkenhead Park. Along with busier stations along the route e.g. South Parkway, Waterloo and the various...

Realistically the easiest solution is to reinstate the Inverkeithing stops and brand it as serving Dunfermline (e.g. Glenrothes with Thornton) as it's part of the same urban area anyway and is set up for Intercity Services with LNER services (and previously Scotrail) calling there. The inland...

A poster at Chester station is not part of adequate mitigation, it's a complete failure of mitigation. Posters at every other station and onboard the trains, along with announcements on Southbound Wirral line trains would be poor mitigation. A portable scanner at the gateline would be...

It's hard to say that an onsite poster is in any way adequate mitigation. At the very least the some method of tapping out to avoid incomplete journeys should be installed urgently, even if the gateline staff then have to allow the passenger through manually if the gates can't be adapted...

Yeah, it's just a bit of a failure that passengers can tap in, board, be travelling with a valid ticket to Bache, then enter some grey area as they approach Chester. A validator by the manned gate, or at least one functional auto gate, at Chester would create a viable solution.

Contactless PAYG has been forever delayed, Walrus cards were coming soon 15 years ago and never happened until last year. By which point contactless/phone PAYG was the normal everywhere else. Could at least one of the gates at Chester be switched to the same type as at Lime Street etc with a...

Are the other stations outside Merseyside; Bache, Capenhurst, Ellesmere port, Overpool and little Sutton similarly affected. Hooton technically is in Cheshire but generally treated as Merseyside.

The point is it's not commuting, commuter passenger numbers (so journeys to Edinburgh/Glasgow) are down pretty much everywhere, other passenger numbers not so much. Both Stirling and Fife to Dundee, not heavy commuter flows, with roughly the same frequency of trains as 2018 are relatively...

Surely a driver has a schedule with departure times from stations and a clock in the cab, when they reach a station at the stated time, they can resume the normal stopping pattern from the next station. Control having a chart with which stations to skip for a given number of minutes recovery...

But then Stirling to/from Dundee is broadly the same number of passengers and broadly the same number of trains, why would numbers between Stirling and Inverness have necessarily changed if they had the same service as 8 years ago. Non commuter routes are broadly similar now. Through passengers...

Commuting (Edinburgh/Glasgow) is down significantly from pretty much everywhere, though increased from Covid lows, WFH has had a residual effect. However, to compare more similar routes which have similar service, from Kirkcaldy northbound, Dundee is slightly up from Stirling northbound Dundee...