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Each non airport sets contain 284 seats. each airport spec carriage has 4 luggage racks, each taking the space of 4 seats. this means that you lose 16 seats per carriage 16 x 3 = 48. 284 - 48 = 236. normally you can get 8 standing in each vestibule, which means 16 people per carriage...

from a passengers point of view - my pet hate is people with pushchairs that block the centre aisle and are completely oblivious to other people on the train. that and militant mothers who think that their pushchair can go wherever it goes and fob you off with useless excuses when you need to...

Class 323's numbers 223 224 and 225 were originally dedicated to Manchester Airport services and had luggage racks and multi-lingual signs in English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. As the operators were unable to allocate these units to the particular diagram, they were not seen...

I experienced similar around 5 years ago only every seat had a reservation, except E. The train manager explained that there were technical difficulties as the system had been left in training mode and that these were randomly chosen names. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I see this diagram on RTT quite often although it's the first time I've heard a train go past running this diagram. Didn't have time to get up and have a look. What is it doing? Why does it go up and down all the lines in South manchester...

I have spotted on Apple Maps (3D version) what looks like Pendolino carriages. They are coupled together in pairs and scattered across the Longsight TMD. Are these F & U carriages? I understand that they have all been put into the existing sets but just wanted to confirm that these are the...

I would have to say Manchester Central Station. It is way before my time but seeing old pictures and attending conventions there, gives me a sense of what the railway lost. Plus the approach along the over truss iron bridges would of been a great entrance to this once cathedral of the railways...

The Manchester Evening News has reported that disruption likely until 1230 today (10/10/2014) It also mentions Virgin trains were unable to call at Macclesfield, anyone know why that couldn't happen...

I'm well aware of the dislike of Pendolino's on this forum so I am immediately hiding behind an armour plate before the barrage arrives! As purely a comfort view I find the Pendolino seats very comfortable for a journey of 2 hours plus. Everyone must have a numb bum at the end of a journey that...

Ah so using my knowledge of roller coaster engineering. (Used to work at Alton Towers/thorpe park) balises are just like what we called permit plates. On Sonic Spinball, they have clip bars that switch a mechanism in the car to open the spin mechanism, it's then up to physics in the car to do...

Thankyou very much, the right information i wanted. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's a question that has popped into my mind a few times. I was watching a 'how do they do it?' Episode which described how the mechanism works but didn't say how it knows when to. Is it programmed into the unit? Or is there a tool that measures the curve in the track? Sent from my iPhone...

I understand that it's logical but it seems that northern never join their gangways when it is possible. I've been on many 150/2 that are joined with another 150/2 and also 156s that have not had their gangways opened up. It really annoys me when I board a unit at one station only to find that I...

Ah I see my question hasn't been written well. What I meant was why do they never join the gangways, meaning so people can walk through to find space more easily Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It would make much more sense to permanently join their 150/2 and 156 units as I always see these around where there is a 150/1 and 150/2 working in multiple and see 150/2 on their own. I've also seen a 142 joined to a 156. It just seems logical to join units of the same type as they seem to...

Imperial wharf... XRD Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh 2 that I've just remembered. A lady once asked me how to get to MANCHESTER PICCADILLY whilst I was standing on the station approach just 10 meters away. I asked her the obvious question of whether she meant PICCADILLY or VICTORIA and she was adamant that she wanted the former. An awkward...

Today I heard another passenger talking on the phone at BOLTON and it inspired me to include this thread. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to discuss on this forum as others have said that this is a 'family' forum. It went along the lines of this: Passenger A: (talking in the phone) don't...

Hey All, im new to this site and this is my first post so i apologize in advance if this has been discussed before (cant find it!) i have recently re-downloaded openBVE onto my new windows 7 PC and on opening one of my routes i have realized that the line diagram image files are missing, i...