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Exactly. A rack railway is a rack railway, a funicular a funicular. But yes, you could probably have a compromise between the two.

That's on a par with saying that a helicopter is poorly designed if it doesn't have a backup rotor to use if the primary one falls off. 1757217618 Portuguese officials investigating Wednesday's deadly funicular crash in Lisbon say a cable along the railway's route snapped Wasn't it implied...

Queens Road Enviros 27957/8 haven't been around recently - are they withdrawn?

I'm afraid that, because my message was posted at 19:33 on Tuesday 2 Sep, 'yesterday' was Monday 1 Sep.

Do the two Fiats 'officially' fit under the bridge? Was 21242 VOR yesterday? What is the height of the Merc? A vehicle parc of two would strike me as totally inappropriate for a PVR of two anyway, I would see four as an absolute minimum. (That wouldn't equate to 100% spare cover, since any...

It's been reported elsewhere that the change date was today, Monday 1 September, but it actually took place as scheduled, yesterday, Sunday 31 August. Buses have been taking up to six minutes to travel from Adelaide Street (on Trafford Road) to Barton Bridge (scheduled time, 1 minute). Yesterday...

Did you actually see it doing the diversion route? According to bustimes, 2107, 2118, and 4039 have all worked Vantage journeys today, but for the most part they are shown as tracking on other routes at the same time.

1756644642 3288-90 have all worked Vantage routes in recent days. 3286 has been out of circulation for a few days, so that may be having guide wheels fitted, too. 1756644723

A cursory glance at the 'updated' timetable (uploaded by Tim33160, above, and effective from tomorrow, Sunday 31/8/25) says there hasn't been any increases in running times.

It's on 163s this morning (29/8).

It's tempting to say that the planned change will only bring the same safety benefit that putting the 52 and 100 on to different rotas would have done, but I don't want to cast aspersions, it's definitely a step in the right direction. I estimate that the diversion via Patricroft Bridge will add...

3116/8 were last used by Wigan depot 26/27 Aug and started on 163s at Heywood w.e.f. 28 Aug AM, joining 3117. 3108-10/2-4 were still in use at Wigan 28/8, 3111/5 seem to be still v.o.r., 3107 hasn't been used since Tuesday, reason not known. B9 3287 did two one-way V1s yesterday 28/8 and...

There are no E400s out on the 609 today, only StreetDecks.

Are they going to Heywood? 3117 has just gone, and 3101-6 have been there for a while.

Can we take it that you're not prepared to tell us how variable excitation alternators work, then?

According to bustimes.org 19 Vantage B5s have been out today, together with all 6 guided evoSetis, the two guided B5TLs, and 3285, i.e. 9 non-Vantage. Of the six missing B5s, one hasn't tracked since late July (3027).

A ticket machine being out of power is hardly the same as a phone being dead.

Do you mean he was unable to accept card payments? Or is cash not acceptable on trains these days?

Aren't some being used by Queens Road on Manchester City Centre free services?

That's a notion which has been introduced on this thread. The Queensgate depot of Burnley & Pendle was, and remains, half the size of Queens Road, yet it didn't stop us having, at one point, four rotas - main, tendered service, minibus, and Routemaster.