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I am on a Liverpool bound Avanti and we have stopped just before Runcorn as the wires are down ahead of us. Nearly made it!!! Very annoying!!! Confusingly, the Liverpool to London has just thundered past us. Is it possible for the wires to be down on one track and the other track be open on a...

My journey from Herne Hill to Heathrow has always been finely balanced between underground all the way (much cheaper obviously) and underground and then Express, with the Express only being marginally quicker and then only if you time it right. I think it is fair to say that the quality of the...

I would agree that all I would need would be the voice of a real human shouting over the tannoy 'this is not a drill - evacuate now' or the sight of some humans in bright jackets waving arms shouting 'get out now' or some thing similar. A little bit of real human will work to get the herds...

Why gold plate the seat when you can gold plate the regulation! Much more comfortable. This must be one of those advantages that have been talked about, where we can now impose higher standards, except of course we already could.

Well if those crash regulations come from the EU maybe a cheeky derogation might be in order. Might as well get a more comfortable seat to watch the general shambles that ....I will stop there. I would be slightly surprised if they do fail for such low speed services though bearing in mind...

The whole Northern refubishment programme is a joke. Poor design choices, poor build quality, lies about customer preference on seat choice, not dealing with historic problems such as acute lack of legroom on some train types, taking absolutely ages, stupid use of flat cloth, dreadful gibberish...

Will that be enough standard seating I wonder? A shame they can't won't add another standard carriage. With a dedicated restaurant and a full first class carriage that would make for a great continental style set up, or like the MKIVs were originally befire we did away with restaurant cars!

As a former resident of Huddersfield, born and bred, I consider this to be a particularly sick joke. I remember riding on a Pacer as a child with my Mum to see my Aunty in Sheffield via the Penisstone line when they swapped the previous generation of DMU for the tin can lorry. My Mum asked me...

and electrifi ....and electrification (unless the proposal is to run a diesel/battery shuttle or divert the Calder Valley service?) and if not a shuttle also paths further down the line for an extra service as I am sure Blackpool doesn't want to lose any. Can't see Fleetwood happening...

...and here is Malmo low level....

Merseyrail always seems to have lots of generally friendly and helpful staff on the Northern Line platforms at Liverpool Central. I suspect that this is key to keeping that very grubby part of the station, which is far too small and really needs another platform (for some terminating services)...

I had some chats with some folks over the weekend that suggested we are closer to short haul electric flights than we think. Possibly also hydrogen. The Flybe network is the perfect first network for an electric fleet. It is not quite time yet but let's say we can accelerate development through...

A sort of on topic question I think...why are there no buffer stops at Southport? Is there not a safety requirement for them at all stations?

Agree fully with this. A major upgrade of Cross Country is much more important than this bail out for overall regional connectivity.

A lot of the focus of comments has been around interior layout. One thing I have wondered for a while is why we have lost the feeling of space in the MKI's. They seemed to be profiled to eek out every drop of carriage volume available within the loading gauge. Modern trains seem to taper in...

10.03 KX Leeds. Short formed 5 coaches. Seat reservations not working. Good start to my first LNER Azuma journey!

A skeletal service? You lucky lucky *******, I grew up on a railway station platform because Northern couldn't be arsed to send a train to pick me up.

If so the DfT have an obvious solution to Part 1 of Bribe the North (but don't actually spend too much darling - and make sure you call them new trains). I am actually a reasonable fan of this project if they run to time properly in diesel mode and don't break down all the time a la ViVa.

That last paragraph is a little chilling! It also ignores the fact that no minority is asking for such a thing (as far as I am aware). If they were to take legal action a court would a range of remedies available to it and so those minorities, as we clumsily call people who are people, would...

How are services doing today? I am about to hire a car for the new year period as I need to visit my Mum in a hospice on a few of the days and I just can't place any trust whatsoever in the Northern or TPE services. It really is a shambles, with no contrition whatsoever from management or owners...