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I'm not a gamer, just a web browser and office and video user, so my PC requirements differ, but I second the idea of buying repairable machines secondhand, which means choosing the brand carefully. I have bought only Lenovo ThinkPads for the last ten years, usually three year old ex-corporate...

I loved Latour de Carol station when I visited it more than ten years ago. It was and I hope still is the terminus of three different lines which all have different gauges. I had never seen anywhere like it, and of course it is high up in the Pyrenees as well. What's not to like!

Blackpool South.

I have worked with the Burges Salmon commercial legal team and found them very impressive. (This was not, however, on a railway contract.) I think we can safely say that FG chose them because they were good and certainly not because they were the cheap option.

Thank you, I shall read up about mapped routes. I think that is the answer to my original question.

Right, thanks to you both. Let me check I've understood. The shortest distance ACB-MCO is via WBQ, but there is no train service that way. We all agree on that. So I gather NRES must offer the shortest route which has a service, and no alternative routes because any alternative is too long...

Thanks Yorkie, but I'm sorry to say I don't understand. Your mileage of 32.02 is via Warrington, isn't it? The two routes with train services are both around 44 miles, and Watershed is saying that via LPY is shorter than via CRE, though as those two are within 3 miles of each other, both should...

Thank you Watershed, that answers my question but creates a new one! I took the mileages I quoted from the RailMiles tool. You obviously have access to the official tool which gives slightly different figures - and makes the route via Liverpool South Parkway the shortest. So why does the NRES...

Hi, yesterday I travelled Acton Bridge (ACB) to Manchester return (not easy owing to disruption at Cheadle Hulme) and this caused a 'permitted route' puzzle which I've not met before. I had an Anytime Return to Manchester Stations. The shortest route from ACB to Manchester (any station) is...

TUPE is exactly what it would be. Employees are protected by the TUPE legislation. When Northern transferred to OLR, even senior directors transferred, presumably protected by TUPE, even though they were the ones who'd cocked up. I don't know what happened to them thereafter. The net of it...

I agree that Manchester to Warrington is unsuitable for tram-trains. People are forgetting the Manchester's tram-trains won't be like the big spacious tram-trains in some European cities. They'll be short, cramped vehicles, and necessarily so because they'll have to negotiate the sharp curves...

I don't think people in these towns where the services will become slower - or their councillors or MPs - have grasped this yet. MK to London is almost as fast by LNWR as Avanti, that's true. But what about MK to Manchester? That's another journey that HS2 makes slower, isn't it?

This worries me. What about all the towns that are served by the WCML today but not on HS2? Has anybody told them they will lose their London services? No, and so i think much of the classic service will have to continue, so there will not be much freed up capacity. HS2 only has stations in...

Typically the light bulbs were nothing powerful - 15W or even less. The Mk1 coaches usually had 24V electrical systems, using a dynamo to charge lead acid batteries. There were changes in later Mk1 designs because they were in production for a long period and technology evolved. I think there...

Changing tack here, did anyone else see the long interview with Andy Burnham in Saturday's Times? We're all saying he is strongly pro HS2 and that is one of the reasons that HS2 will definitely be built to Manchester. Actually, he was ambivalent about it. He said he was much more focused on...

It's an aside from this thread, but no, that's not quite right. One of the problems with the Golborne Link was that whilst it bypassed the two track section of railway from Winsford to Weaver Junction, it did nothing to relieve the two track section north of Wigan. Thus the amount of extra...

Another thing to consider is the passenger flow between Warrington and Manchester. This has always been a heavy flow and the non-stops between Manchester and Warrington Central load very well, and always have, despite a somewhat premium fare being charged (MAN-WAC is priced higher than WAC-LIV...

Some confusion here. Manchester-Warrington-Liverpool is the line usually referred to as the CLC, and it has had a mix of express and stopping services ever since the day it opened with four an hour (two of each) until the Covid cuts. The Mid Cheshire Line is...

Another change in the December timetable, and a welcome one, is an hourly service at Acton Bridge. But if the connections at Crewe onto the London trains are screwed up, that's going to reduce the passenger flows from the Cheshire stations on the LNR Liverpool service. Way back when, I used to...

There was discussion a year or two ago suggesting that the second hourly Liverpool service should run on the historic route via Earlestown; not stopping there, but with calls at Lea Green or St Helens Junction to give St Helens a London service for the first time in decades, and a call at...