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Bit of a bump - but I've seen a few 755s (and some 745s) heading west on the North London Line from Stratford. I'm sure they're going somewhere as ECS moves, but what are they heading off for?

How about one big dynamic loop all the way from Salisbury to Exeter, with a few crossover points? :lol: In all seriousness- Tisbury absolutely needs doubling to the station. So frustrating sitting there in a field, waiting to get off an overheated 159 with non-functioning AC, having come all...

I presume this is the equivalent to Traction Control in a car helping you get off the line in slippery conditions, monitoring the speed of the wheelset and adjusting power/braking to the wheelset very quickly? And this is the extra coaches that are added when a unit is being dragged, right?

I'm not quite sure I'd take an open flat wagon, but I'd agree that the 720s are unpleasant. I'm quite a wide shouldered guy (rugby build!), I physically don't fit in the window seats, and need the seat next to me to be empty because I take up half of it. Thankfully I don't commute on them but do...

A 'full length' tram would go some ways to improving capacity, but from what I understand would be tricky with the M5000 design and would probably require something altogether new. Kind of how the DRL is replacing triple units with 2x 3 section trains, reducing the number of cabs taking up space...

I feel like using the two lines to say: London Waterloo Stopping Service or London Waterloo Semi-Fast Service or whatever would be a good option. Simple and gives that indication of calling pattern. I quite like the way some trains (Pendos, 345s for example) give a 'next stop' indication...

And having driven many, many times to Northern Spain, from the catchment area of Bournemouth airport, I can say safely that it is deeply unpleasant, takes forever, and I am very glad that my mother's fear of flying has now abated enough to allow her to do that same route on a Ryanair 737 to...

Likewise you saying you like them.... I agree that the leather seats are great on shorter trips. But longer ones where you're trying to sleep, they often get sweaty and sticky as leather (or pleather) doesn't breathe. There's also leather and leather - the seats BA use are far superior to the...

Having grown up along this route, and with my parents still living down there, it so frustrating. The number of times I've sat in Tisbury car park waiting to collect a relative off the westbound train, which has been sitting in the loop, waiting for an up service to arrive from Yeovil/Exeter...

They *look* smart, but leather is not comfortable on long-haul. There's a reason that BA are sticking with cloth on the long-haul fleet. We tend to fly BA on our trips to the US (mostly Chicago, so it's BA, AA, or United) and their Premium Economy seats with cloth are far more comfortable on a...

I remember stooping to clamber to seats on the upper deck of the METRA Electric in Chicago. We went upstairs for the novelty, the locals were avoiding it. https://www.alamy.com/interior-panorama-of-an-upper-deck-metra-commuter-train-car-between-winnetka-and-chicago-illinois-image241206627.html...

It would basically be like Nissan's e-Power hybrids, many years before. Reduced fuel consumption being the key benefit. Whether such thing could be made to work with '60s technology, is a different matter. Of course the duty cycle of a battery in a hybrid car is very different to that of a...

Gatwick does have some longer flights that aren't offered from elsewhere in the country (see BA's long-haul operations there, for example, or secondary airlines like Nigeria's notoriously misnamed Air Peace), but they don't make up the majority of passengers. Most people will be flying somewhere...

I get what you mean, but that's kind of what I was trying to get at! To get those headline low fares, you're flying basic on Ryanair (and I love them for it) I do think though that a lack of seat selection on their site is a bit of a own goal though, something that's easily chargeable for...

Definitely looks like moquette in the images on their website. Having a seat selector will be handy too, avoiding 'window' views of a plastic pillar! How many more operators though are going to make the flat cloth mistake? GWR have switched on their 80x, Northern on their CAF units IIRC, now...

That's great progress! They do look smart, and the MML certainly deserves the improvements.

It looks like the new seat covers are moquette, which would definitely be sensible. I feel that, like with Ryanair, they're a company that you have to accept limitations with. If you fly how Ryanair want you to, it's cheap and can be wonderful (I only met my husband because of a £35 return trip...

Lumo have said themselves that they're not aiming at LNER's passengers, but instead at the people who were previously going to take an easyJet A320 to Edinburgh. Like all these things it depends on costs - if Lumo can offer a cheaper (or comparable) ticket to the airlines, then they're going to...

I'm sure I've heard that too - isn't the ELL the main reason the 378s have the cab design that they do have, rather than one more like the 376s? I've noticed that there are a lot more 710s on the NLL though recently.

Also.... these are renders. We don't actually know what GC will have, unless someone here has been quietly involved in the contracts and spec that's been drawn up! (Or I've missed an announcement somewhere!) Either way - this will remove the last diesel passenger operations from the southern...