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I also happen to think they look very good - I actually think the more contrasty yellow front livery did them favours in that regard too.

Weird how these trains specifically seem to have a huge number of issues - potentially anything to do with cramming the kit into a smaller amount of space below the train? Absolutely!

The assassination attempt and deaths of rally attendees has almost certainly won Trump the presidency. This, alongside Biden's unwillingness to step down leaves a very steep hill to climb for the Democrats. Yeah, Taiwan maybe he'll do more for, but he is very very unpredictable, so we simply...

As much as the memes have been entertaining, project 2025 is genuinely scary and I think 2028 will be some of the least free/fair US elections for potentially over 100 years. If Trump wins, I think Ukraine and Georgia will likely no longer exist, and neither will Taiwan. Europe and the UK may...

Some good news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx72qdj0qxyo.amp The 6am services I've used in the past have been very popular - lots of staff headed to QMC, city hospital, etc. Been as many of those still regularly commuting and being unlikely to have the cash for a car will be warehouse...

I'm under no illusions that change is not going to be fast, but given the scale and cost of running a rail system, that's no big surprise. The biggest question really is what is going to happen with HS2. I suspect nothing will be announced until at least the autumn budget. While there are...

Tram failure between Highbury Vale and Hucknall this morning. A couple of trams were also withdrawn from service, presumably due to technical issues, but maybe also staffing? Yeah, I suspect that's the case. That and perhaps a lack of available contractors.

I don't know wether it's because they can't get the staff in, but I do wonder why they haven't been replacing larger sections of track and rather doing everything piecemeal and having the busiest section of the network shut down for longer?

It was quite a while ago now since I was last on an 80X, but I think I can recall what they are like and yes, the legroom is more central to the seat. I don't think anyone would be particularly comfortable having to keep their legs jammed together for hours at a time either! In general, I feel...

As someone who is over 6ft and likes sleeping on public transport, having extra legroom tbh is of more benefit than a soft seat. Although my experience, especially with newer Ryanair Seats is that thinner can actually improve on comfort with the right cushioning (rather than taping carpet...

Thank you very much for this update! It's surprising to me the lack of criticality lift failures seem to be dealt with on the railway. It's personal experience, but I seem to find a much higher proportion of lifts are out of service on the rail network vs buildings, etc. Still encouraging to...

Doubt the 222s will lapse off lease before the 810s begin arriving. Plenty of fleet cascades have been delayed by the TOC handing over the fleet not getting their new trains when expected. The biggest issue will be keeping the 222s running in the latter half of the century, guessing they'll...

Given the number of failures in the past week, likely the case yes!

And now it looks as though another tram has broken down today! Image taken from Nottingham Post Article: Nottingham tram breaks down in city centre causing heavy delays for commuters Surprising how poor the reliability is on both the older and newer tram units. I have a feeling that they...

Fair enough, the track does look a bit worn round there! Looks like a tram broke down at Hyson Green today o_O

Yes app was quite good with service updates this morning. I also asked them to include cancelled trams at one point and they introduced that a week or two later. :)

This morning it looks like there has been a lot of disruption on the trams in the form ot three sperate incidents. An 'incident' between Old Market Square and David Lane. Additionally, tram failure between Wilford Village/Ruddington Lane and power failure between Toton Lane and Bramcote Lane...

I'm thinking about going to NYC later this year and Norse didn't look much cheaper than the alternatives? Where you get stung is the luggage, which you of course want when travelling across continents. It seems like once all the taxes/tariffs are added on, plus unavoidable fuel, it inevitably...

Doesn't this give some incentive to Stadler to hurry up with introducing the new fleet, or is most of the dawdling down to Nexus now?

I would guess three track would run bi di? Probably not so bad if the track splits before Dore & Totley, rather than having to share a single track through the station too. Did services towards Hope Valley waiting for clearance to pass Dore often block the mainline waiting for the train coming...