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Depends entirely on the route travelled. The 225 are generally more spacious and quieter on straight long distance routes. Pendos are far superior on twisting routes, but the interiors, particularly noticeable in Standard Class, are more cramped and were optimised for a London to Birmingham 1...

Living South of the Border where most ATMs are located, I think the confusion that is trying to be avoided over the name Stow is not with other stations but with places without a station, particularly Stow-in-the-Wolds and regularly shortened to Stow, or Stowe (Bucks), Stow Shropshire, or...

It is on the A7 Galashiels Road either sides of the junction with Station Road. The most frequent service is the X95 Edinburgh to Carlisle (normally 30 minute frequency) but expect disruption if you are going this week, due to both Tour of Britain and the Royal Train (see Traveline Scotland...

That is all well and good except that the proposed HS2 station is over a mile away from the business park with no currently proposed rail/tram links and is on the other side of both the M56 motorway and the airport spur road links. The present MIA station is right in the centre of the business...

I have been one of your target group, living to the South of Manchester and having a temporary job in Central London. My observations: The current HS2 proposals are likely to increase my journey time to London due to a requirement to first commute into Manchester - there not being a proposal...

Interested to know if it came from South West England and whether its road journey from say Bristol to Carnforth or Plymouth to Kilmarnock was faster than the fastest passenger rail service available between those points? I suspect it was.http://www.railforums.co.uk/images/icons/icon7.gif

What I was referring to was the World Logistics Hub part of the Airport City plan. The logistics hub development which is currently the most obvious part of the Airport City development with the first building now occupied by DHL and is on land south of the A538 between the M56 and the Airport...

I agree with you - probably the real reason is that the most sensible routing would run under/through the Airport City site - however one of the major problems with that scheme is that the only transport links currently being planned are the extension of some local bus services. While an...

As noted earlier in this thread passengers to an airport station are less inclined to accept a change of train at an intermediate station. (I recall myself voluntarily extending my Berne to Zurich Airport journey by 90 minutes so as to use a direct but stopping service.) It therefore appears...

Going back to the original question: I think it is important to remember that originally the Cross Country franchise was the part of the old Intercity network that did not terminate in London. I believe this does not sit well with it current specification as a cross Birmingham service. The...

Sorry - that was entirely my mistake, because I seldom travel to either I mixed up Gloucester and Worcester (and which one had the line to Hereford) - the routing would have to be via Abergavenny and the Newport East junction (which is too much like ATW, although that route could do with a...

That is the problem with XC - it only effectively serves passengers who wish to travel to Birmingham. I now tend to use the car or route via Newport for Manchester-Bristol and route via London for Manchester - Reading (faster and cheaper). My proposal would be to strengthen the Manchester to...

One thing Virgin do well is manage their fare yields: On the super voyagers Coach D is first class on most morning routings between Crewe and EUS and as you noted the evening peak period services out of Eus between 16:00 and 19:00. I have been on a Voyager where Coach D was 1st class...

Can anyone advise me which rotations use the 9 car 390/0's - I believe at present the London-Birmingham-Scotland through services do but not sure about the others. Interesting Virgin reconfigured their North Wales 5 coach Super Voyager fleet to increase First Class capacity from 26 to 78 seats...

I believe the Westminster administration has for some years planning for an independent Scotland in a way that would protect the interests of the taxpayers in the rest of the UK. In this respect I believe the current proposal to expedite HS2 as far as Crewe and no further is to give the...

My vote is for a reinstatement of a WCML (North of Stafford) to Bristol and South West England service (this time preferably avoiding Birmingham New Street). Before the [Virgin] XC service was axed it appeared that about 2/3rds of the passengers joining north of Stafford did not leave the...

Thank you all for this - now think it was a 158 mid car (if Northern have any of these) - definitely not a 323 - it had end doors and no pantograph. It was only a fleeting view as I was passing at speed. Nice thought though! Please correct me if I wrong but didn't Northern used to operate a...

My eyes might have deceived me, but I am thought I saw a C3 carriage in Northern Rail livery at the Longsight depot yesterday!

Fair enough - though, won't those trains pass through Manchester Airport? No - not at present. The current proposals provide a station referred to as Manchester Airport but it is very close to a mile away from the present Manchester Airport station and further from airport terminals 1 and 3...