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Agreed. I suspect the interiors will be far better as northern take the naff spanner for terrible interiors, badly cleaned, every time. However, I suspect the underlying issues will still show up. For me that is ride and odd noises. I do wonder if the weight saving bogie designs are at fault...

Cheap or badly adapted to their circumstances? There is quite a big difference. CAF obviously can make good trains. They make trains that can go faster than 99% of the UK network would ever need that are perfectly good. I suspect a lot of this is bad procurement by British staff who didn’t...

Bit racist? Definitely a little 1970’s fag ash. The thing that confuses me is that their trains seem to ride like a dream in Spain. Yet the new stuff here is awful. So are the 185s at speed on TPE in my view though. They really lurch on corners. I am not sure blame is fully with CAF. I...

Signal sighting might kill the idea to be fair! The other thing to look at would be the east end. Same goes for Huddersfield. Although the prevailing wind is west I suspect I have had my most frozen days when the wind is blowing from the east. Huddersfield in particular is very exposed from the...

I have always wondered why they don’t look at putting in some vertical glass/similar panelling at the west end of the station to curb the prevailing wind. It wouldn’t be that big a job for a massive improvement in the station environment. It wouldn’t help the exposed parts of the platforms...

The bit of this I struggle with is ‘the iPads were on as loud as needed for the kids to hear’. Does that mean we should all accept everybody listening to a device as loud as they think they need to? Obviously not. Just carry and use headphones. If the kids need to be told, they need to be...

Or just some stickers and announcements! There is no need to stop perfectly sensible use of most because of the total lack of manners of a few. There is little that irritates me more than this minor irritation and it needs stamping out. I can’t decide whether the noise or the display of rude...

Found the answer. Some European countries saw the benefit of a larger gauge and got together with the ones that had built smaller at the beginning of the last century to agree a common standard larger gauge. Those countries that had built smaller (largely France) agreed to build bigger. Our...

That is really interesting. Do you have any idea why other countries spotted that would not be enough so quickly bearing in mind their road transport was pretty much the same as ours and so their comparison the same? Railways sprouted up all over the place very quickly once the whole thing got...

This is true. I will give you that. Still very sad to see all those perfectly serviceable seats thrown away through. Such a waste, should have just got it right in the first place.

How did the UK end up with such a rubbish loading gauge compared to continental Europe? But then not using it to its full potential at least. MK1 coaches seem far roomier. I assume the main problem is all the equipment and crash protection you now need nicking space? But then why the tapered...

I personally think they should shut the network down for 5 or 6 hours in London. There is red warning and there will be a lot of flying stuff all over the place. Very dangerous in any urban area with so much lose masonry about to be found out. I don’t see the point in encouraging people out and...

I have been through the threads and quite can’t piece the answer to this together and so will ask in the hope it is not repetition. Would a more joined up railway have looked at the last northern renewal franchise and said, the Government owned 365s will become available soon and so let’s free...

Thanks. Will do.

I have been through the thread and quite can’t piece the answer to this together and so will ask in the hope it is not repetition. Would a more joined up railway have looked at the last northern renewal franchise and said, the Government owned 365s will become available soon and so let’s free...

This has blown my mind. Also west of Bristol I have just discovered.

Thanks. That does make a bit more sense then. I don’t so much mind the not providing it bit, it is more the saying you are going to provide it to great fanfare without checking the infrastructure can handle it, then withdrawing it. So many examples of this across Northern and TP over recent...

Thanks. That is what I thought, and is why I am confused by the announcement that TPE is going to run 5 stoppers a day between Newcastle and Edinburgh. Surely this is using more capacity than the originally planned express service from the core. Leaving aside whether such a service is required...

Hull rather than Scarborough makes a lot of sense to me. I am getting rather lost with where TP is heading in general with its routes though. There is this change and I now see they are going to run a Newcastle to Edinburgh stopper. Something you would have thought is more of a Northern or...

Is this such a daft idea? As somebody who used to do Huddersfield - London quite a bit I would have thought this or the other suggestion of splitting an LNER at Doncaster would work best for the passenger. I would have thought the GC option would end up more reliable and less operationally...