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Is there any reason why the EMR can’t run 6 carriage? It is absolutely crazy to be staring down the barrel of years to improve the infrastructure when 1 of the 2 fast trains is 4 carriages. 4 carriages. Just say that to yourself again. An intercity train connecting all the cities of the East...

I do think there is a big argument on intercity services with quite frequent stops for putting all the longer distance passengers in certain carriages. It is not exactly difficult to achieve. Just programme the booking engines to do this. It would make a difference to people’s experience. There...

Lots of exciting talk on night trains these days, particularly in Europe. Looks like Brussels and potentially Amsterdam shaping up to be good hubs to head east. My thinking is Eurostar should run one late train to Brussels when those services start up, the business model of which is to stuff it...

This plan shows how broken our overly centralised system of Government is. Remember, this is a country in which the central Government literally hands out cash to fill pot holes. The ambition and timescales are one thing. Not enough. However, the biggest problem here is that we effectively have...

That is not Liverpool to Manchester though, which can have very different loadings. It seems crazy to me to have trains terminating at Stalybridge, a station 90 plus per cent of passengers on the train don’t want to go to. What are they meant to do next? Unless Liverpool - Manchester numbers...

I am surprised there is still much lower demand than pre-pandemic. There seems to the untrained eye to have been a big rebound in routes between cities. Every train I have been on recently has been packed.

I couldn’t find the reason for one part of this. Why is it that Scarborough services cannot run through to Liverpool at the moment?

I totally understand. Everything is always somebody else’s fault.

A genuinely interesting point is that the mood of this forum appears to be that these are unusual weather events and that the UK railway industry is not capable within currently available resources of setting up the day to day running of the railway so it can ‘get around’ these localised effects...

They were not running half as many trains, it was less than this and the information provided on why and what to do about it was dreadful. As for yesterday, where else did the WCML have problems other than a downed tree and power line in the Midlands? I ask that as a genuine question. If there...

Yes, very happily! Let me emphasise, it has been known for over a year the WCML would need to do a special job this particular week, so extra contingency would be totally justified. However, the WCML is also a critical artery, so you could easily argue extra contingency is justified at all times...

The hanging cupboards are a mistake. It is not only that the design is incorrect and so does not work. They are also in the wrong area of the train. It is ridiculously stressful taking a bike out of one of those things at a busy stop with lots of other people getting off and on from the same...

Absolutely shocking failure of management by Avanti this week. Unbelievable lack of contingency planning when playing such a vital role in one of the most important international conferences this country has ever held. The serious apathy that has creeped in to service provision around major...

Spotted this at Crewe the other day next. It looks like a repainted Caledonian Sleeper carriage? Anybody idea what it is and what is being used for?

I am no expert, as might be evident by what I am about to type, but: - If you need an isolated section, can't you just use bimodes for trains that call at Mossley station. 769's might do it but will be lots of other options available, like the electrostar with battery. - why does the divide...

Am I right in thinking the Axminster to Waterloo directs have gone because of Covid? I am travelling the route tomorrow and can only seem to find trains with a change at Salisbury. Does anybody know the direct journey time vs the time changing at Salisbury? Thanks!

Does anybody know how Scarborough - York is behaving now? I need to travel Filey to London next week and will have a tight connection in York.

I would love to know what the proposed leasing cost is on the 769's v a new DMU/bi-mode and what the min leasing period is. If they stand up against a new DMU/bi-mode but only require a 5 year min lease for payback of conversion costs plus profit to leasing co they are prob an okay idea of...

There is a lot of unused space down there that could be made secure. Anyway its a bit academic for now as there are no immediate plans to use that space up top. My only point is that somewhere can be found for the cars to go elsewhere if valuable railway land is ever needed for a railway...

Is there a reason why staff parking can't just be moved into the Dark Arches?