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The line doesn't make money it actually loses money hand over fist, so it won't get custom stock. Personally the heating issue is usually resolved by around noon I suspect the issue is that the train than overnights in Oban and mallaig are frozen due to the weather and exposed nature of the...

Reguarding HST failure see here https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/scotrail-hst-alternatives.244302/ And yes they do fare better in landslips etc as they have been hit multiple times with minimum injury to passengers or staff.

HST's won't work on the line unless you want a ton of shunting at Crianlarich , and with how unreliable the HSTs are and the questions around there safety with land slips running then regularly thought areas like Falls of Cruachan are all diasters waiting to happen , I use the Oban train 8 or 9...

Health and safety rules are written in the blood of those that went before there is a reason that the UK has went from one of the worst countries for death or serious injury in the work place to being one of the best in the world

I think everyone is losing track of the important part of this , is that the railway is a connection for the people who live in areas like Oban , dalmally etc They need trains that can provide a solid consistent service year round and tourist carriages etc should be an addition not the...

Pub is awful and there is only really 1 shelter and it's mostly full of drunk neds

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Issue with HST would be the splitting/joining of the train at cairnlarnic for Oban and Mallaig. HSTs would require a lot of additional shunting unless the HST can be run with an engine at one end and DVT or similar

I would disagree that's actually genius marketing as it gets people talking

Garbraid AVe is Tesco Mary hill so only 2 pubs there the politician (now closed ) and the viking (cracking pub) but both quite small . Now if it started on Garscube RD or ST George's cross that would have added 6 pubs to the route , was there another large employer in the area that accounted for...

The weight of electrics is a benefit in the snow it gets grip down

If a commercial service runs the subsidised service must not compete

Need to remember that ember see them self as a tech and data firm and plan to use this as a income sourcec

They use the mobile phone network each bus is fitted multi network SIM . McGill's have several additional safety system's fitted including a driver facing camera that can detect driver fatigue , driver distraction etc. With McGill's at least for west of Scotland there is a control with a media...

Mcgills have the ability to see a huge amount of data on there yutongs , Ralph was doing a tour a few years ago and explained they can see fluid levels ,battery charge etc and they can often send a spare bus to meet a faulty bus before the driver knows there's a fault

There was tons of publicity at the time of launch and it's shown on all the publicity to this day in NHS publications and even in letters from the NHS.

The are actually very useful especially in the city centre it means rather than check every bus stop you just check the stops with a H flag , similar systems are used all over the UK

I got the Dundee to Glasgow a few weeks ago and there maybe 15 people on it over the full journey

It's hospital it's been there for over 10 years there's a few stops with H flags

The current station is really good In my view , less stances is a wild idea considering how tight it can be at times.