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    Northern Class 331: Construction/Introduction Updates

    Hopefully they buy a sufficient amount so that they can retrieve the extra 9 323s from West Midland Trains. Would be a waste not to.
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    Transpennine Upgrade - what should happen East of Leeds

    This is borderline a wild speculation, but with the review of phase 2b could it be possible that phase 2b could build from church fenton to M1 colton junction in the short term. And then in 2035 - 2040 the HS2 phase 2b route from the south of leeds can connect to the already built route?? This...
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    My idea for Class 88s in future passenger work

    The class 88s would only be useful maybe in 5-7 years time when/if the transpennine route gets electrified in order to replace the 68s. Maybe they could do a bit of tweeking so that they are able to reach 125mph. Then the 802s will move to Middlesborough and Scarborough routes.
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    Class 801s emergency power pack

    I have a question. (My bad if its been said somewhere). I know that the Class 801s have an emergency power pack engine which reaches speeds of 30mph. However, Does anybody know the Range of the power pack as well as the horsepower.
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    First West Yorkshire & York discussion

    The bus route quietly got reduced from 10 minutes to 12 minutes during a normal weekday from around summer 2019. However, another consultation with the WYCA (not really relating to the service 42 consultation) focused on building a bus lane on beckett street, where the bus usually suffers...
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    The last slam door trains in public service

    Ahhh ok!! It Makes Sense.
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    The last slam door trains in public service

    Cross Country has some MK3 carriages which are slam door too, i'm pretty sure. And it is not confirmed when they will be replaced (Maybe around 2023 by the class 221s from Avanti)

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