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Would it be feasible to write something into the franchise that forced the TOC to pay compensation for not providing seats? Some standing on short-distance commuter trains is sort of understandable, but on the distances the likes of XC cover, it's not - last time I travelled on XC, I had to...

IMG_20200210_151451 by Wtloild posted 10 Feb 2020 at 15:22 Just spotted a couple of 195 carriages heading south down M6 past Keele services. Any idea where they'd be going and why? (think they were 195 rather than 331)

Recall once being stuck for ages at Wolverhampton waiting for a delayed connection & there being absolutely no source of food, not even a vending machine. This is over 15 years ago, so might have improved since.

My job takes me from the NW to a wide range of provincial towns and cities around England. I should be a natural regular XC customer (& was until a few years ago). Now I avoid them like the plague, as do my colleagues. I'll be traveling down to Exeter tomorrow & returning on Friday, by car -...

For the same reasons as the Windermere line (reduce diesel running under wires), should the Barrow line also be done? There are also slot of diesel services running into the unhealthily enclosed Man Vic. Wires to Stalybridge & Wigan would ease this, but to Rochdale also could also, with the...

Travelled on 365s a few times in Scotland last year & was impressed.

I live next to the Manchester-Preston line. What's the problem with the 397s? Before Christmas, I was seeing lots of 397s passing by, but don't think I've seen one in weeks & weeks now. Nearly all TPE trains have been 4-coach 350s in LNWR livery. They're put to shame by Northern, whose trains...

My station (Chorley) has gone down from 662k to 567k. Has lost lots of days lost to engineering work, strikes & to an effective lack of services most Sundays. Also heard numerous tales of people locally just giving up on trains altogether, either buying cars, using existing cars more, switching...

I think there'd be room for some basic station near the Freeport outlet place, which would be handy for the centre, the footy & the outlet itself.

Blackpool wouldn't miss the odd train, it's over-served as it is. Alternatively, running Ormskirk trains through to Fleetwood to save the blocking Preston isn't a bad call.

Guardian is reporting potential reopening of lines to Blyth & Fleetwood. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/26/northern-rail-to-be-renationalised-and-some-beeching-closures-reversed Think Blyth not a massive exercise, but Fleetwood a bigger job?? Moderator note: There is a...

Are there any plans for more trains coming from Chorley?? Surely Chorley is limited by capacity issues at Victoria & through Castlefield, neither of which are likely to be remedied in our lifetimes.

Not sure how busy the Burnley to Colne stretch is, but the Preston-Blackburn-Accrington stretch has been very overcrowded whenever I've used this line.

Could all platforms east of Rose Grove cope with even a 2-car 195? Burnley Barracks in particular is very short(?)

I saw a similar screen on a 331 on Saturday, proclaiming that we were about to arrive at Salford Crescent, when in fact we were just leaving Chorley. It continued to say we were imminently arriving Salford Crescent, as we actually stopped at Horwich, Lostock & Bolton then after genuinely...

No, my friend asked me not to - he was pretty embarrassed about it and just wanted it dropped.

Couple of months ago, I was at Man Vic at about 20:30 on a Saturday evening with a couple friends, one of whom was wheelchair-bound due to MS. We politely asked the barrier staff if they could unlock the disabled toilets for him as he'd lost his radar key. Staff on the barrier knocked on the...

I do have a direct service from my station (Chorley), but it's far from reliable, suffering for cancellations (much of it caused by airport & Castlefield overcapacity), terminations & short-forming. Also, non of the stock used has anything like the luggage space required for an airport service -...

The instance I referred to of 2x156 overhanging the platform at Clitheroe wasn't very recent, but certainly less that 7-8yrs - probably about 12-18 months ago. Fairly sure no work has been done since then (my mother lives almost next to the station, so I'm there relatively frequently). It can...

How much could be specified in a new franchise agreement? Is the the scope to learn from current fiascos, or the franchise agreements very much a pro-forma applied universally with little room for common sense? E.g: Could a minimum staffing level per number of services be specified? Could a...