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When it does so, is it one of the only passengers services that uses the north/west portion of the Cowlairs Triangle (West of Eastfield Depot) ? e.g. from The Edinburgh / Glasgow Main Line (Via Falkirk High) direct to the West Highland Line, bypassing Glasgow Queen Street entirely ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Glen_Sannox_(2017)#LNG_and_port_infrastructure I am sure I read somewhere about pressure / temperature sensitivies made it simpler to move by road from Grain to Scotland. Again, my understanding of what a 1300 tonne ferry consumes in LNG is not extensive, but...

There is some interesting number manipulation in both directions there I would say. She emits far more CO2, but carries far more cars. So at 100% load factor on both ships, the CO2 per vehicle is less than on her predecessor. I’m not enough of a mariner to understand how fuel consumption works...

I think from Governments on all sides of the borders, the naked disdain of a variety of newspapers towards the current incumbents at Westminster and Holyrood make their “opinion” an irrelevance. Though readers may of course interrogate the facts reported and make their own judgments...

It is interesting it seems to be more often Buses than HGVs, I suppose the relative proximity to Caledonia depot and the huge churn of drivers (almost permanently recruiting it seems) may have something to do with that. It does seem strange there isn’t something done with a beam sensor and a...

Particularly enjoyed on the Cal Sleeper the other night, reading the “for us getting a good night’s sleep is important, there will be no announcements during disruption, would you like to host to inform you if the train will be delayed” on the breakfast card. Smart way of doing it I thought...

And also highlights the nonsense of the performance statistics. Yes of course, punctuality matters. But the impact and kind of, acceptability, and what an average traveller might expect of an 11 minute delay to, for example, the Abbey Flyer, captive single track line exclusively used by on train...

Also worth noting as Dalmuir is really a suburb of Glasgow, a number of those passengers will be displaced from a full GLC sleeper rather than American tourists wanting to explore the Delights of Clydebank at 6 in the morning ! I think I read before it’s a crew change location more than...

There is presumably a conflict between the engineering logical position, which would be to reduce formations to allow for some of these issues to be resolved more fully (some obvious inherent design flaws presumably will remain for the life of the stock) … and the bean counters looking at the...

it isn’t upskirting of course, but personally, whilst of course I do not own the train or have a right to privacy there, sitting in one of the single seats by the window on LNER - if the person sitting opposite was to produce a camera and start photographing / filming me, I would find that...

Surely the point that is not being expressed here is that on the BahnCard or similar - the calculation is that people will make journeys worth at or around €50 euro. That’s how every subscription model works - no-one at Netflix HQ values the entire content library at £8 a month - but it’s a...

Sure, but fares roughly rising with inflation (or inflation plus 1%) has long been the norm. The point is the general principle that it shouldn’t be for workers to have to negotiate for standstill pay. That should be the starting point, surely ? If the fare box + the government investment...

As a general point, I am not sure why the baseline for any pay offer, private or public, isn't some variant of Retail Price Index, because surely so much of this grief comes from the insinuation (or indeed sadly the reality) that anyone's job has become less valuable over the preceeding year...

I think this is what the poster was getting at - that given the relative speeds / timings, one might get rather more bang for bucks by investing that money currently being spent on various bits of Scotrail on coach travel of varying timings / comfort levels. I suppose to ask that question in...

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/glasgow-subway-slower-opened-1896-signalling-n2793h0tr Times Paywall, but interesting to see timings up to 33/34 mins for what was previously a 22/24 minute journey (and this normally having some minutes of slack time at Govan)...

I feel there was something about Fort William or Oban based drivers on here some time ago - I suppose at smaller depots (not that Inverness is the same, but still smaller than Glasgow or Edinburgh by some margin, I'd imagine) the difference between "enough" and "catastrophically short" is much...

I imagine as this persists into the festival / peak tourist season- having an hourly service on both the Falkirk and Bathgate routes with 4 minutes between them, and nothing for the intervening 56 minutes, will lead to some very interestingly loaded trains. Bonkers.

Car 128 is now on display at the Riverside Museum. Of the remainder, some have been scrapped and there is some initiative to find homes for some of the rest. I wonder, given the physical condition they were in at the end, and the limited height inside, how long they would last in an outdoor...

The responses in this thread are a pretty good illustration of why politicians want to get a million miles from operational railway running. Because in reality, with so many local authorities close to bankruptcy, it is hard to see where the cuts come to deliver large scale public sector pay...

Will be interesting to see how the new stock performs when then denser service pattern resumes (currently on Summer 5/circle 5 min service in the peaks) in a couple of weeks, given currently the slower trains are running at close to off peak frequency in the high peak - sitting at 8 min or 11pm...