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I'm about to get annual season ticket for my work commuting to Manchester - I've been buying weekly, monthly and day tickets for the last half year, partly due to my unclear long term base, plus I work a nine day fortnight - 5+4 days - it's worked fine but over the year works out about £150 more...

Something struck me the other day whilst stood in the vestibule of my usual EMT 158 coming into Dore... The doors through to the next carriage were open and I could see through to the open door at the far end. Got me thinking, with enough reinforcement around the ends, could a 26m bi-mode...

Interesting demonstration this morning of what a short formed 158 on the first Nottingham to Liverpool service is like - is not experienced it before and always had the feeling that the train never felt "that full" first thing... The drop from 4 to 2 cars obviously reduces seat numbers, unusual...

Whilst I acknowledge, I'm about 20 years early on this one, reports today in RTM about a £30m fund to push feasibility stage plans forward for the Northern Powerhouse, led me pondering exactly what we might end up with as a service pattern and how that might impact on the current HS2 Ph2 Plans...

Interesting news item in the Railway Gazette re Stadler refocusing on the west. http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/business/single-view/view/stadler-rail-switches-its-focus-from-east-to-west.html Perhaps more noteworthy is the last paragraph that refers to consolidation of manufacturing in...

Currently sat at Bamford on the first EMT service towards Manchester, apparently the TPE service ahead of us has made an unscheduled stop at Hope with door problems - anyone know more ?

Most mornings the EMT train I catch between Dore and Oxford Road is subjected to a short stop on exit from Disley Tunnel, sometimes it's as little as 30 seconds, other times it's several minutes... Is this a timing stage to avoid clogging the Greater Manchester stations up ? Annoyingly, the...

New report from the DfT out today... https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/414815/the-northern-powerhouse-tagged.pdf

I start a new role next month in Manchester, travelling from both Meadowhall & Dore to Piccadilly and Oxford Road depending on the time of travel. Having scanned over various documents for Northern Hub, in terms of my route specifically, I'm seeing four tracking for Picadilly to Deansgate...

I'm sure it's been discussed before, the seems some logic in the use of the 800 series numbers for a train that can be either electric or electric and diesel powered, there also seems some logic on starting a new series 700 for EMU's as the 300/400 series is getting a tad used up, but what I...

Trains being diverted from Rotherham this morning due to an incident - anyone have more details ?

Noticed this on the train today, just behind the drivers cab, any ideas what it is ? http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/11/03/fdd611400ce7238f9c2e266b97f95eec.jpg Don't recall seeing one before, least not in black.

Not the right place I accept, but following an update to the talktalk app, the "mark all read" tick has now disappeared from this forum - it's still available on other forums, could the admin team look into the problem please. Thanks

Does anyone have any details on how the stations for the central core will work - I'm thinking 24 trains per hour leaves little dwell time for each, so will each central core station have double platforms for each direction ? And will passengers be flowed through from one side of the train to...

Talked about previously I'm sure, but this popped into my mailbox today http://www.ciht.org.uk/en/media-centre/news.cfm/Railway-Signals-To-Be-Removed-On-UK-Network Which kinda begs the question - how's this going to happen with numerous old trains also using the line ? Does this mean that...

Simple question, I'm sure it's been asked many times before... How can you determine if a XC service will arrive as a 4, 5, 8 or 9 car unit ? I use realtime trains on my iPhone, but it doesn't appear clear - is there a typical allocation of train sizes that XC work to or some other mythical...

Has anyone else noticed that the 8 car 350 units are nearly always empty - really gets me annoyed when you consider how rammed the 3 car 185's get at peak. What's the state of electrification right now, are there any 185's running under wires still ? Could the core routes be revised to offer...

Putting aside all the issues re track clearance and such, has anyone actually sat and thought about the actual increase in seating capacity and loading performance given by double deck carriages in terms of carriage length vs space taken by stairways (and lifts of course for DDA). Whilst...

Expect chaos today at Sheffield - line to the south affected by landslip, line to Meadowhall has a broken down train (derailment maybe ?) May know more when I get to Sheffield on the replacement bus from Meadowhall --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Ah, train stuck on viaduct next...

I'm sure this has been discussed to death before I joined the forum, but the Wikipedia article on the project suggests time benefits for trains travelling to Sheffield, but I can't see reference to this in the (albeit limited number of) Network Rail documents I've looked at. It appears that...