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Does anyone know what the two orange circles are either side of the front destination display?

Some TOCs don’t have a choice as a minimum length of time as agreed on order. The actual name of this slips my mind, section something or the other

It might be the agreed method of working for certain TOCs, but not necessarily a ‘rule”

I personally enjoy the trams in Amsterdam with trams going round roundabouts as if they’re a car. That and the line which crosses a motorway at level

Maybe it depends on the operator but around here (Skills holidays) all of their Levante 2s still in use have them. So 65 reg onwards. It’s the same voice as the ‘mind your head’ when the luggage doors go down which I think has always been there

Looks like something was preventing P3 at Haslemere from being used so there was no opportunity for the fast to overtake

I think the fact that the 'core' of the current network is pretty much at capacity (without further works) is a big factor to consider here. It pretty much rules out any extension that would be a 'branch' (unless it was to be operated as a shuttle) of one the current lines and means any...

Out of curiosity, what program did you use to make these maps?

WMR manually announcing it on approach definitely helps, especially as they can say things like ‘turn left when you get off the train’ etc

Whilst more under the hood than window issues, it always struck me as odd that Trent Barton continued ordering Mercedes engined Solos and Versas until finally going for Cummins engined Versas for the rainbow one. The Merc ones seem so slow off the mark in comparison.

43 I believe. I think it was said at the time of order that 33 were direct replacements and 10 for service increases, though that may now have changed of course

The same happens in Nottingham. Wilkinson St is on the north side of the system so the first trams out are the ones heading down to Clifton and Toton, with the last trams at night being Clifton and Toton ones making their way back to the depot

Usually makes sense to run them in service, shouldn’t add too much time at that time of the day

Also useful if one fails in the middle of service it can be put out of the way there

Just for emergency use. Southern native 171s had them from new. Southern fitted them to the converts during the conversion

That is quite a good description of it to be fair. I guess you’d know better than most!

Whilst more crowded trains isn’t ideal, one good thing about EMR is that they do seem willing to declassify the first class section in coach D which does help things somewhat. The worst thing about the 180s going is that you can’t get a decent phone signal on the 222s and the wifi is awful

My thoughts exactly :lol: I can’t comment on 755s in person as I’ve only been 745s (and even then only on the WA route) but sat at the front of 745s you definitely hear it well. You can even hear the AWS/TPWS voice when the driver sets up the cab

Surprised no one has mentioned the Stadler 745/755s. Great horns for such new trains

There is a yellow panel. Personally if I was Gbrf I’d just make the whole front yellow instead of any orange, but not have the yellow area go any wider than the light clusters so you can’t see it from the side but they seem to like rectangular yellow panels