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There are only 500 mk 3 coaches rotting away in storage and an entire fleet of hst loco doing the same. Yes indeed sir, theres a massive rolling stock shortage. I suspect no other country in the world has so many carriages and locomotives in storage and no other country moans as a much as we do...

I haven’t had the chance to try out the units but on Thursday the one that pulled out of Newcastle, on low power, was not quiet. There was my voyager alongside and the noise from that was dreadful. So there an improvement there. But we aren’t comparing g them to the new units For long distance I...

I had a look at one of these azuma running as dmu from Newcastle on Thursday at Newcastle. As it pulled slowly out of platform 2 , engines were noisy and every carriage was vibrating badly. Compared to a beautifully quiet hst, this was like a 101. Seats appeared cramped compared to mk4 stock...

Windows look very small. Seats obviously aren't aligned with windows. There aren't 69 formations compared to 45 as is being touted. There are four extra formations when one allows for the fact that there are half size five coach formations. I guarantee that they will be much less comfier than...

It’s a total waste of money and would not be happening if it was being built by a nationalised company The proposed journey time for hs2 between Birmingham and Sheffield will save 8 minutes. Currently, xc can do the run in 56 mins when trains are running late. These timing happen on a regular...

And that would be a complete waste of money and is never going to happen. Thankfully

It's totally relevant. The lack Of coaches has nothing to,do,with using two locomotive to pull four coaches I also believe there are thousands of coaches rotting in the siding at March etc. They can easily be converted. There can't be a stock shortage when thousands of carriages are rotting...

This is a total waste of locomotive power. Why do they need to top and tail four or five coaches when there are perfectly adequate run around facilities at every single terminus these new services serve. A single loco with the four or five coaches can easily cover these diagrams as they aren't...

I travel frequently on the Newcastle to carlisle line and everything as been its usual arriva self with pacers running all the way to save more money. There was an interesting run on June 30 I'd just come off the Southampton train which was inexplicably late.tje 15.55 to Hexham should have...

I remember the Saturdays only Devonian between Paignton and Leeds ran non stop between Torquay and Derby. They removed the weekday stops because they ran so many Saturday extras between Torbay and the north. The Saturday Devonian had in the 70s had 12 coaches( the proper length for a long...

I used to live in Edinburgh and work just up the road from leith. I vividly remember leith central station was still there. The platforms etc were all in tact and there were still luggage trollies on the platforms The docks were still heavily used and the millerhill loop was still frequently...

When will these so called new high speed trains complete the journeys faster than they did 35 years ago? We the taxpayer have invested a small fortune on a line and trains that are slower than trains were almost 40 years ago. I have timetables from back then. When will Swindon be reached from...

There's a massive problem in this country with rail prices that date back to BR days. In many cases a return ticket costs more than a single. A day return from hexham to newcastle is the same fare(plus 10p) as a single. Two singles cost double a day return. Why? There's no logic to it I booked a...

Headline on the BBC was that network rail said that trains could soon run24 hours a days across the Netwrok. I didn't realise that Only London had a rail Netwrok in the UK. The BBC article is all about London trains. It's seems none of the U.K. Has a train service. Then again London has more...

We are planning to spend an absurd amount of money at the same time when every rural area in the uk has had their rural bus services decimated by Spending cuts. The first thing David Cameron did was virtually abolish all the spending reforms the previous labour government brought in. And then he...

Why are these train top and tailed? Why can't they run around? Oops that costs money and takes skills that drivers may not have any more. At newcastle , Scarborough and Liverpool there's no reason why these trains can't be single loco as the facilities exist to easily do so. Scarborough and...

When will,these new super fast trains be a fast as the hst were 40 years ago? Bristol Parkway in 63 mins. London to Swindon in 40 mins. A massive amount of money has been spent of new trains and so called route improvements and yet trains 40 years ago were faster. I have the BR timetables from...

I've been to the old station in Allendale. It's a caravan park now. Actually, the station isn't in Allendale it's some way out. The intention was,to run it to Allenhaeds but they didn't even make it to Allendale. Apparatly it was a difficult line with steep gradients and curves. Service was...

I wasn't lecturing them mate I was advising them of the law and how to save their bus. They weren't interested .they wanted someone else to do it for them as usual. How would would you advise someone of their rights under the act of deregulation? Not everyone lives in the city. Plenty of shops...

We went to Alston last summer on the bus from Haltwhistle. There's only a few buses a day and they are under threat. I tried advising the passengers on the bus how to go about saving the service and how deregulation works in relation to socially necessary services and no -one was interested. In...