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Looking at Trains.IM Northern has collapsed and posted two months of Cancelled and Significantly Late worse even than the dizzy heights of May 2018 which was 7.4%. One mechanism which definitely doesn't work is that for saying we need to run emergency timetable and it won't be compliant with...

It isn't really shades of grey at 1.5min on a 75mph railway you aren't going to make the next timing point as if you were running in greens. On turnarounds there seems to be almost zero logic in the 'rules' as seen with Liverpool Scarborough and back in 10mins and many daily cancellations. It...

The principal idea is to allow Bolton, Huddersfield etc.. to have direct Airport services that do not cause multiple conflicts. But you need to be looking at a two track / four platform / 8 car railway as a starting point.

For a start the more you pay the less likely you are to get the voluntary Sunday working. The railway can't run on favours when the trade unions have zero stake in the success of the franchise or the local economy and will not hesitate to hold both to ransom for tactical advantage. Ultimately...

So what exactly are all these undelivered infrastructure enhancements that now excuse Northern from delivering a reliable timetable? The only one I have seen direct reference to is the Hope Valley capacity scheme and given that would have seen even more tiny trains rammed through Manchester...

When the Voyagers were introduced the seats were bemoaned as hard and uncomfortable. When FGW changed the Standard HST seats they were bemoaned as hard and uncomfortable. When the IETs / 700s....you get the idea now. The Voyager seats are some of the most comfortable Standard seats going...

I am afraid simple matter of fact is that the infrastructure cannot support the current timetable. The latter must be changed because in the short term the former can't.

Wasting money is a waste of money. Building extra platforms on 15/16 would not begin to solve the problems in that corridor even before the inevitable increase in services that will inevitably be rammed through. That is why an actual solution is needed such as going from North to South via a...

Very many of them are not even 4 cars.

Based on a fairly random sample hour, TL appears to be 18tph on the core of which only 6 take the route to Elephant & Castle. Manchester is a complex series of conflicts in very close proximity, some with trains crossing both running lines on an opposing route and where standing clear of one...

Through services are more efficient and create new opportunities e.g. Stockport to Southport. But short term yes there are too many trains trying to cross between North and South and the timetable pruning shears are needed before the service will work.

Why do you think IR are a function of the company? How many TOCs from SWR to MR find themselves variously in industrial action over the role of the Guard? How many strikes do we see on state run LUL? How many TOCs have managed to get Sunday in the working week? Who runs Northern, state or...

I will propose extending the SW-NE Cross Country services from 4 to 9 cars. More than doubles the standard seating capacity at the expense of only a few places where the current train occupies part of a shared platform.

The headway is based on green signals meaning that every pathing allowance wastes space in the timetable. For some strange reason the practice also seems to allow two trains to converge from routes with equal linespeed, one from a red signal, following one in flight and maintaining separation...

Why do we need to further increase frequency? Is 2tph to Sheffield and 2tph to Nottingham not enough?

A dose of accountability for these Mayors would be welcome. The problems won't be fixed by moaning about Westminster, Elites, Bankers or their other favoured tropes. Do they back strong unions going on strike holding everyone to ransom over Sundays, Rest Days and DOO? Are they prepared to make...

If they are based at Piccadilly what else do you do pay them to ride passenger to Bolton or Manchester Airport and change there? Two minutes sounds like the timetable planning rules have been bent into the shape of the stakeholder ambition for more services not the other way round. And it...

Looking at the link 1P10 and 9M03 Stalybridge to Ashton Moss Jn. Both timed Class 800 / 125 mph. The former has 1.5min pathing approaching Sralybridge but both have 3min for the following section running non stop. So the allowance to restart from this check appears to be zero...

I don't agree. Standing trains block up other routes while even DMUs are slow to get going and occupy the point of conflict for far longer. Nor can they get behind the preceding train on the planning margin if they just had to stop and wait.

The worst thing to do at a conflicting junction is to stop at at a red and restart. The fact they are planned to wait already says too many trains.