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The latest HS2 document I can find on the matter(2018) depicts one Liverpool, one Preston, one Glasgow and three Manchester services. This is of course far from final, but the Preston service is shown calling at Crewe, Wigan, Warrington while the Glasgow only does Preston, and none of the...

Is there any timescale for when this might happen? Burnham's been Mayor for two years already. How will this affect First's attempts to sell their remaining operations in the area? I suppose this is what Go Ahead were banking on when they bought Queens Road, but does anyone else want to get...

Boris Johnson is reported to be planning a review of HS2 if/when he becomes Prime Minister. This must be the biggest threat to the project yet, got to think there's a high chance of cancellation now - if Boris was supportive there would be no need for any review.

Unfortunately they won't arrive in Munich until late afternoon, and so miss all connections to the US.

I think the point being made was that if there was an unlimited pot of money you would rebuild Piccadilly and the Castlefield corridor to be capable of taking all the traffic from Victoria, not that it was at all realistic. But the point is relevant to discussion of current and future services...

You can't not advertise the calls at all though - you can not advertise them on the platforms, but the timetable has to show a stop at Bolton in some form to be any use to people going north. Southbound people will just get on assuming the train goes to Manchester even if it's not on the...

There's been no rush to meet the deadline as it is - only in the last couple of years have refurbishment programs started on large numbers of sprinters, and there was never much desire to update the pacers. A number of TOCs and leading companies probably are still hoping for an extension. Much...

They want people to come to the airport certainly. They would probably welcome the bus if it paid a fee. Ensign are clearly trying to compete with the train rather than serving any distinct market, and have no right to access the private property of the airport - if the bus is in fact costing...

Mayfield won't affect the Arena. If a new arena with 20,000 capacity is built by the the Etihad one of them will go bust, likely the existing arena given the backing one at the Etihad would have. In my opinion it's stupid for the council to be supporting such a proposal, but that's not really...

All the passenger trains have similar running times anyway, so none really have any reason to use a loop (the Carlisle and Morecambe trains are diesel but have fewer stops so it roughly balances out). There's little freight now since the closure of most of the coal burning power stations.

Can Network Rail make that decision? If the paths exist and SWR haven't applied for them I thought Network Rail had to consider open access equally rather than reserving paths for SWR.

It's too late to change the timetable for this December, and it's probably too late to get rid of the 195s, but it's certainly within the realms of possibility that in their efforts to cut costs or sweep away the influence of Arriva the new/nationalised operator will abandon the proposed...

The slack in the timetable is an allowance of 7 minutes which looks like it's to allow a London service to go ahead at Winwick Jn. You didn't need it there today because the London train was late.

To take the existing commuter traffic it'd have to run through the urban areas, so largely underground, with a lot of underground stations, which are massively expensive. Mixing freight and fast trains on the same track doesn't work because the passenger trains would quickly catch the freight...

It's hardly Calais-Dover though is it? Very few people will think there's anything about Iceland making a weekly ship, risking arrest on board for 48 hours, is worth the trouble when you're already in Denmark. I can't imagine Iceland is an easy country to avoid the authorities in if you get...

Iceland has nothing to fear because they speak a language no one else in the world understands, it's freezing, and you need to buy a plane ticket to get there. Schengen won't make much difference to immigration there. Illegal immigrants in Schengen today are not our problem - they're...

If we compare with other countries in Northern and Western Europe the state don't look good at all. On the 2016 numbers, the latest I can find, in addition to Cornwall and West Wales already mentioned, the North East, Lancashire, Merseyside, Humberside, South Yorkshire, Derbyshire and...

Council tax is highly variable depending on which local authority you live in. Many of the lowest tax authorities are in London. A Band A property in Liverpool or Gateshead pays more council tax (including the relevant mayoral/GLA element) than everything except Band H in Wandsworth or Westminster.

A Bolton-Blackburn(-Clitheroe) shuttle looks OK on paper, but as you say, consider the connection time and relatively easy driving alternative (though from Darwen driving is a bit awkward with no fast route over the hills) and it looks far less attractive than the current service. Say you had...

Seeing as we don't have a general Transdev thread, I'll put here that according to the same tweet they're also getting 13 Enviro 200 MMCs for the 1 Blackburn-Darwen-Bolton route. At 15 years old there isn't anywhere obvious for the Cityzap fleet to go aside from school work unless they're in...