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They did have quite a big bus business, but they've sold most of it off lately. I don't know if the coaches they operate for NX are still owned by them or if they've sold them as well.

But I thought SNCF was supposed to be a shining beacon of state-run perfection and an example of how we ought to do it?

I think that's probably the default setting for commuters everywhere. Are there any commuters anywhere who're entirely satisfied with their local service, I wonder?

Yes, They say that CO2 emissions from Fossil Fuels are a Bad thing, but I bet the People would rejoice at that story, since if you asked them I bet the average Person on the street would come out with the automatic kneejerk response "No Nuclear power!" and "We don't want it here!!".

When are these hypothetical strikes likely to be, if at all? Surely all the idiots following the advice of the Government and not panic buying, oh no no no, whatever gave you that idea, will have used it all up by the time, if there are at all, there are actually any Strikes. Will they not use...

I think Arriva is their UK subsidiary (in passenger terms, at any rate), so they use that for purposes of bidding, and so on, don't they?

the Avon that Stratford is on is not the same as the one that Bradford on Avon is on.

I think the reason is simply that they don't have any Desiros spare, and I expect the same applies to 455s (which are surely used to capacity during the week at least) and to allocate anything else, something completely new, would need staff training & so on.

I'll put this here because it relates to charter Trains; What I was wondering was, if a Charter is terminated short & the passengers directed onto normal service trains, does the TOC get any revenue or compensation for the sudden influx? On another forum I was just browsing on, one train...

Could make some useful extra platforms. Though it sounds as if it's more the Council's, or the Homes and Communities Agency (some new Quango i've never heard of before?),'s idea than NR's.

On WNXX recently, there was a list of Freightliners locos that are now in Poland; I don't know if this link will work but let me try.. http://www.wnxx.com/news/archive/2012/news1203.htm .. yes, if you scroll down the page it's under 'FPL 66s'. For the DBS ones, in the list here...

Do the automated announcements (on SWT, at any rate) work off of TOPS, since, if a train is worked by a 450 rather than a 444, they do (usually) say "This train is formed of four coaches" rather than five? So do they refer to what actual stock is working that train?

That sounds even more sinister than the Lubianka. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- :p The question, I suppose, is, is Mr. Cameron simply a prat, or is there some ulterior motive for his idiotic suggestions that "people might want to think about panic buying"? Does he want to...

Oh dear, how cheesy. And rather tasteless too, when you think about it.

They did in a lot of places, until the Government of the day closed them all as part of their kneejerk panic response to the Menace from Terrorism, apparently fearing that Terrorists would stand on the balcony and aim rocket launchers at the planes or something. It doesn't matter whether there...

Normal service, you mean?

And you can guarantee that the NR (and/or the EU) would never consider any low cost technology when they can spend billions on devising something incredibly expensive themselves, which they'll probably mess about with for 10 years before quietly ditching it altogether and saying that "they've...

More in the "I'll believe it when i see it" category (see also: HS2 & IEP). I wonder why they always make these great grandiose claims about what they'll do in years to come, when they have enough difficulty making what they have at the moment work satisfactorily. Maybe that's why, similar to...

Will this be operated by Arriva again? Would they use proper coaches, or those Mercedes Sprinter things?

Well, of course, yes, Al Qaeda just want more pay and better working conditions, don't they, so there's hardly any difference, no ... :roll: