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Why would they do that? You wouldn’t gain anything? Just cutting the existing service in half for no gain whatsoever. Route and traction knowledge would need reorganising, The route needs 11 cars as is and sometimes can’t cope. As I’ve said what’s the point of speculating until an actual...

there have been opportunities though, and I can’t be bothered digging through, but I seem to recall a few posts saying that some of the operators on the west coast weren’t happy with some alternative suggestions to get it put in. If you look long term, the disruption has been worse on the WCML...

Doesn’t seem to be a “sexy” project but the Norton Bridge rebuild is for me, a clear winner, it’s massively improved the flow of traffic in the area, improved timings, no having to throw the passengers around at Mill Meece as it is now a thing of the past. The XC trains don’t have to sit at the...

Have you ever looked into the cubicles at the ends, if you have, you’d realise that there’s a LOT of stuff to tuck in there. For instance the WiFi stuff has to sit over existing equipment and be swung out to get at the gubbins behind. I’m sure the tech now could obviously be made smaller, but...

What are they like with staff going in and out? Can’t imagine the Guards and Drivers taking too kindly to being told where they can or can’t go. To be fair, can you imagine the behaviour at BPN if you were allowed to wonder about freely? I’m sure the spotters would be happy to move around, but...

Compared to Rail magazine for instance, it certainly is more credible, but it’s still speculating at the end of the day.

as @LowLevel has already said. Central never had depots at Liverpool or Manchester. XC do have a Depot at Manchester as well and always have. It’s not a brilliant strategy having a Depot at Crewe as it encourages the TOC to turn stuff round short of terminating station and Liverpool used to do...

So you’re all in agreement that because a magazine has said they’ll be 5 car, that’s definite? wouldn’t it be better to wait and see what’s being proposed first? We don’t know what’s happening who actually work here, so unless someone has been tipped off from First, it seems no one else does.

Because you’d need to do shunts and add a vast amount of time to a run that wouldn’t work if the train was leaving Lime St. A proper rebuild of extensions to the platforms would need a hefty resignalling project which would probably have an awful business case.

Still in pride as far as I know. It will probably eventually come off as it says Virgin on it. The only ones that definitely lose their names are the specific virgin branded ones. The cities and such will either stay on or removed at the end of the franchise. Though the Bangor/Chester ones have...

One of them is definitely sat on Edge Hill, but I think there is only a single 4 car here now. Unless some are tucked inside the shed or pit.

Just to add my twopennorth, when sat in Rail House at Lime St on the 6th floor, you can certainly now tell there’s a 68 in the station, and walking through the station they certainly make their presence felt. However I think a potential fly in the ointment could be if any of the nearby hotels...

NR should sell the naming rights to Liverpool St, make a few quid, outrage the traditionalists and solve this particular problem. :E

Good job Manchester Picc was changed from Manchester London Road then, can you imagine the panic in some of the people who can’t understand a simple map? I’d love to know why the railway seems to bring out the terrors in people who can otherwise make perfectly rational decisions such as colour...

Is the service not advertised as London Liverpool Street? It should be when you consider Euston always gets advertised on our stations (VTWC) as London Euston

Goven the lightness of a 142, maybe they should have fitted larger sandboxes to counter the ‘overuse’. I personally think that’s dangerous terminology, a driver should never feel in doubt over whether to use a piece of vital safety equipment, and I certainly hope that is not conveyed by your...

WNXX forum is showing a green one of these for GWR. (Though some are saying it’s photoshopped). Suprised that’s also not been mentioned on here.

I don’t recall 331 015 being mentioned yet, but it’s sat on Edge Hill Edit: 016 is on there as well.

195 129 fully put together at Edge Hill

‘Could’ be wrong here, but there was a 397 doing an ECS run from Lime St to Glasgow today. Is that a first?