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Please forgive me if this has been asked elsewhere, but will the modified 'Flex' electro-diesel units be given a new TOPS class number? If not, it appears that such allocations are becoming ever more arbitrary. THC

Newmarket springs to mind - the former station building is just up the line from the current platform and hints at the prominence the railway once enjoyed. So perhaps not "grotty" but certainly denuded, a shadow of what went before. THC

I'm fairly sure that you can add Highbury & Islington to your list. I regularly travel from H&I to Chelmsford and am issued a paper ticket on LU stock, which of course fails to open the barriers at the other end. I imagine the situation must be the same for gated stations up the Great...

It's not much of a comparison to some of the others but I always think of Angel Road on the Lea Valley line as "awkward" in that it faces quite the wrong way for the surrounding facilities. I understand that it will be replaced by a new Meridian Water station in the coming years, however...

Nothing puerile about it. I - and I'm sure many others here - have had enough of your constant talking down of this project. We all know where you stand only too well. And your constant argument from authority cuts no ice either - you're not the only one with many years' high-level experience...

Your supercilious sneering has been the most consistent thing about this whole thread. It is unedifying and, frankly, somewhat infra dig to see someone of your seniority and alleged wealth/standing take such pleasure from Vivarail's failings to date. Perhaps Mr Shooter was rude to you once, or...

Why not ask them directly? info@vivarail.co.uk THC

Today's Railways UK (rather than Europe) is the title that carries Irish railway material and articles - a request to the publishers some years ago to change the title to something more accurate (TR B&I perhaps) unfortunately fell upon deaf ears. THC

Not so - TfL's contribution to the MLE, as we must now call it, is £49.23m of the total project cost at the P50 risk level of £284.4m and any excess above this amount. The TfL contribution comprises a HM Treasury agreed uplift of £30.5m in the TfL prudential borrowing limit (with TfL retaining...

1993 if I recall correctly. THC

As a former (albeit brief) resident of Wendover, I came onto this thread to post exactly that - beaten to it! I'd add the parallel stretch through the Chilterns from West Wycombe, starting with Dashwood's mausoleum atop the hill, up to Haddenham. Just as good in reverse, with the oncoming...

This link is to the presentation given to the MLE Community Liaison Group for Three Rivers on 15 June. There are a few interesting nuggets within, including reference to a potential name change for Croxley station. THC

TfL Board on 19 July will take an update paper on, inter alia, the Investment Programme, which contains a small section on the Metropolitan Line Extension (pp12-14). In brief: - Stage 2 contract award significantly delayed (originally due end of March) but hoped to be signed off in q2 (i.e...

Vivarail's finest is bound for tests on the Marks Tey-Sudbury branch "in the next few weeks" according to Today's Railways August issue. Assuming this actually happens, I hope it performs well. THC

Going back to my childhood, I loved the sounds of the CO/CP and 1938 stocks on the Underground but, of current EMUs, it has to be the lapwing-like "whoop-whoop-whoop" of the Class 323 as it pulls away from a station. Always makes me smile, that. THC

This is by far the best place to go and ask. THC

Don't be so puerile. I have as much influence over railway operational matters as I'm sure you do. The difference appears to be that I am keeping an open mind on their potential contribution. For what it is worth I would have no issue at all with Class 230s, subject to proof of concept...

Let's look at those contributions again: Mr Shooter - Former chairman of the UK's longest franchise. Evergreens I, II and III including expansion and new services to the West Midlands and Oxford. Responsible for ordering the first post-privatisation rolling stock. Many other industry...

That's right. Because, as I'm sure you're aware, the Class 230 is not exactly designed with top-link ECML duties in mind. :roll: Your incessant belittling of this project and those involved in it is both obvious and tiresome. Mr Shooter may not be everyone's cup of tea - having met him one...

It appears that some politicians would welcome 230s on their patch... http://www.vivarail.co.uk/on-record/ THC