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Another hark back to the not as glorious as some people seem to think days of British Rail (I lived it and worked for it, it wasn’t as great as people seem to be making out). Also remember, BR kept moving their brand on during its 50 or so years, its image didn’t freeze in time like so many...

The one with the black front end looks fantastic.

It really is a terrible idea along a 393 mile mainly 2 track busy route. Timed and booked on a much shorter 144 mile route (just over a third of London - Edinburgh). Again timed and booked and neither does the full length of the route from London to Glasgow.

No 333’s available for anyone to ‘borrow’. 365’s all scrapped except 3 preserved coaches.

1 of the 2 Leeds - Huddersfield stopper diagrams comes back to Northern this coming Dec timetable change using a 150 3 car unit hence the 2 additional 3 cars being formed.

Not for a while yet. There will be just enough 3 car 331’s coming east for the time being to enable 4 & 6 car working on the triangle (as I previously mentioned and once the associated platform work is complete) and 2 x 333’s on Leeds - Donny services. There is no room for spare units sitting...

Haven’t TfW just bought 67026 and 67028 outright?

There’ll be around another 6 x 3 car 331’s heading east.

Not quite sure what is intended by the words ‘even you’ but anyway they look ok but then again it’s a livery style which was designed for them nearly 40 years ago so should sit ok on them. It would not work on an Azuma or one of the new Civities which are on order. If people think GBR will be...

Why would that happen though. BR ended nearly 30 years ago. People really need to get out of this harking back to the past mindset and look to the future. The world has moved on and despite what people think (enthusiasts or those with an axe to grind against the company they work for in the main...

I take it you’ve never owned a black car. The hardest colour to keep clean. I’ve had most colours and silver was actually the easiest to keep looking clean. Why does the UK obsess with the past so much. It’s so sad that people don’t want to look to the future.

Yes I understand the geography of Great Britain but it’s irrelevant in this context. Scotrail and TfW rail will be separate entities from GBR though. It’s been mentioned many times before including the post just before yours.

A new article showing the artists impression of the overall site. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/24345357.new-images-show-scale-planned-100m-shipley-rail-depot/ The article in full:- MORE details on plans to build a £100 million rail depot on a former scrapyard have officially...

Bad example. The 175’s are in TfW colours which won’t come under GBR so would need re-doing anyway.

Yet we managed perfectly well in the late 70’s and early 80’s with 1 livery when there was less information available at stations and online info didn’t exist.

Yes that’s exactly how I’d do it if you have to have different liveries for different service groups, at least the liveries feel like they all belong to the same company. If you are just going to splash any old non harmonised colour scheme on different service levels and worse still as suggested...

Sorry I’ve just bolded what you said here - ‘United system’. So is the system one whole system (as in GBR) or a load of segregated systems (as in latter day sector used BR) that means that everyone has to fight for funds against each other as that doesn’t feel like a unified system...

I agree wholeheartedly if GBR is the way we go. So not consistent then?

Why do you need top and tail when the mk 5’s have a DT at one end?

Not a chance at all, especially with the totally ignored lack of wires or lack of ability for a BEMU to make it there and back amongst other things. Sadly it’s the usual thing when an OA application comes in. People take it too far and decide that what’s proposed isn’t enough and needs to go...