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Whatever was sat in ditton last night appears to be fully painted.

apparently the voyagers are to get a refresh of some kind before they leave the franchise to be replaced by the 23 new ones. No idea what exactly it entails, but it specifically mentions it alongside the refurb of pendos. Amongst some other proposals such as confirming the plans to go for the...

Haha I made them look ancient, I meant the 1980s!! No, it’s more a lot of mid to late age 50s drivers when will go earlier than the expected retirement date of 66.

when the links are worked out there’s a ratio of how many drivers you need in a link per number of turns and dependent on some criteria. If those links are full then there isn’t a shortage. Most companies have a RDW agreement for training purposes. We do. Have Northern got one? Something is...

Stop highlighting to make your point. They’re not understaffed, if Llama works for them, then why are you countering him? They’ve had this problem for years where staff don’t sign the full number of routes. That’s purely a management competence issue, because other companies seem to manage it...

It would be nice if Merseytravel could afford the same benefits of Merseyrail to the rest of Merseyside before people atart demanding plans to have semi fasts on Southports, Chesters etc. Many parts of St Helens and Knowsley don’t have a 4 per hour service and at St Helens Junction has even...

As an aside, the station de-branding has also supposedly started.around the midlands and will be gradually spreading around.

Did they actually tell you to get out of the coach? I’m also not aware of any rule preventing a member of staff using their mobile in the train, in the cab yes, but not in the passenger part. And as for ‘youth club’ what does that mean? They were noisy? Playing games? Not bowing and being...

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Give over, telling them to sit x amount of coaches away from the main part where they work? If you would like to furnish me with the posts about all these people complaining about being unable to sit in those back 3 seats, when others are freely available then I’ll also tell them too. There’s up...

As a counter, I’d suggest you stop obsessing about the single seats as there is only you that goes on and on about it, if you are going to come out with sarcastic answers like that.

Not sure if the mods will agree as it’s a refurbishment thread, but can we give the seat wibble a rest please? (As has been asked on the other WCML thread). One mans uncomfy plank, is another mans pleasant pillow. I’m sure there is a seat thread on here somewhere.

I’m sure it could be removed quite easily, we should find out in the next few weeks what the plans are. End of the day though, the TM still has to be accommodated and they aren’t going to leave a marooned cubbyhole between some sets of seats. I’ll also be very surprised if they decide to start...

The issues you have with coach C are, the cubicles for the electrics which can’t be shifted, unless there’s going to be some radical strip out and rebuild of all the cupboards on the train. The TM cubbyhole which although now has less equipment, still has the emergency brake and the TMS for the...

Rocket?

State of play at Edge Hill today. Couldn’t see any 195s. Maybe tucked away in the shed/pit where 2 sets where sat. 331 013, 015-018, 103 and 112 all in depot. 018 has just arrived as it still hasn’t been put together. If of interest, 802 208 also on the depot as well.

The external door. However it’s been said that it is temporary, and will eventually have a proper emergency door fitted.

Seen a pic of the front of the 777. Can’t link it unfortunately as it’s on a couple of closed FB groups. But let’s just say it will polarise opinions. It looks quite different to the mock up and doesn’t have glass in the emergency door.

Oh no.... here we go.... The issue is purely dependant on where the immediate point getting onto the platform is. That’s why New St is notorious for coach E overloading on a pendo, but coach A can be half empty. Seen it happen on many reasonably busy platforms across the country on different...

If you can’t do emergency announcements via a PA system, the train can’t run. It has to be taken out of service. That’s why it won’t be able to have pax on it assuming it’s interconnected to the PIS.