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TPE was a fine idea and brand when BR created it thirty odd years ago. Since then it has got worse, and worse, and worse, and now - after the changes of the last few weeks it is a steaming pile of ordure not fit for a supposedly sophisticated transport market like the UK. I finally rode the new...

I remember them as dark and uncomfortable with highback seats and restricted views - shame as externally they were quite stylish.

Mayfield was BRBR to the end.I don't know to whom H M Guvmint transferred it last time, but if it is out of the public sector and any strategic role in transport it is simply more of the same from this bunch of illiterates. As to its structural capacity - its heavy duty with a capital H - I...

Its their mates getting richer, mates who will be giving them directorships when they do leave government.

Mayfield is a perfectly serviceable rail level platform that could carry traffic quite readily and it is perfectly possible to make the curve round the north end of the Macdonald. Ridiculous aspersions like Chester's show how little he really knows about infrastructure, intermodal arrangements...

But are they bringing someone from DfT, TfGM, GMCA, NR and TPE with them. These are the players and they all need to be answerable.

Head in hands ......... but people want to go to Manchester - not the outskirts! Mayfield has six platform faces capable of taking through traffic plus 13 + 14 Putting four faces into the space between Rail House and the train shed and you get - 4 + 12 + 2 + 6 = 24 platform faces at...

Do you honestly think that Network Rail will be selling without reserving access rights - at no cost??? Do You? Even they aren't that stupid! This sale is mad Tory dogma of the worst kind. I worked through the twenty years asset sales following the dictat of the Grantham witch. That was bad...

The aspiration of the 1980s was one principal station for Manchester. The aspiration of the 21+teens seems to be to destroy that. There seems to be an acceptance that through long distance passengers should accept changing trains - let's get this straight - they won't and should not be asked to...

Just did - he's a Hartlepool lad so he will know

Visitor Leap Card only available at the airport and post office on O Connell St - not at Connolly or Dublin Port. (Could only be Ireland!) valid on all modes in Dublin for a variety of days 0 bargain! Hotels - Oh Boy! easy to pay over £100 a night. Lovely place - great people and go when the...

Another little jaunt over the past few days. Sunday afternoon Bendyleano to Euston with the usual parsimonious attitude to staff food on board, and a chinese at the Wong Kei followed by the Highlander from Euston to Newtonmore. Some twenty years since my last sleeper trip. This one went via...

Surely they have a duty of care to other passengers to move them away from any incident to a place of safety. If that leaves the brick chuckers stranded in the rain in the dark - my heart bleeds!

Ferry to Armadale - bus to Kyle of Lochalsh - back via the Kyle line. Do not, whatever you do miss the Cullen Skink at the fish and chip shop served half way up the hill on the Morar road - bloody nectar!!!

Since Arriva took over the Manchester Todmorden Accrington service, the number of cancellations that would have made my friend late for lectures has grown exponentially so I now find myself doing two Tameside Rochdale Accrington journeys up the M60 and M66 a week. it used to be possible to get...

What we lost when it was a unified railway can never be replaced - professional competent managers who quietly got o with the job performing miracles with limited resources - £350k a year top dogs - pure fiction - and it should have stayed that way!

Shambolic it is - end of. Any service that is two trains an hour this month and two a day from next month is a shambles - and a slap in the face to established traffic flows. I am NOT prepared to run the gamble of getting a seat or standing when forced to change and many more will follow my...

I am advised that the shambles that is the new TPE timetable is directly down to the DfT. They have completely destroyed a historic and well used facility serving east Manchester and it appears that TfGM MP's etc are powerless to challenge them

As a thirty year former railwayman that got fairly well up the ladder, and close to government, I understand that there is only one pot of money that will be spent on the railways. I am very firmly in the camp that wants to see the whole country benefit and come out of this with a more...

Having seen a couple of quotes on the BBC news a few minutes ago Sumpter should be shown the door for gross abuse of his position, he certainly would have got a Form One in the old days for that sort of behaviour if not a summary sacking. Ever since becoming an Arriva company trying to...