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Ah I see, thank you for the reply and detail. Are the any Manchester - Cardiff only diagrams that they might work on?

What is the issue west of Cardiff - gauging?

Seriously, don't fall for it. The north is a great region as are its people, all of them other than the usual minority. Its cities are doing quite well, its towns could be doing much better with more effort and imagination. The problem here is not scousers, Mancs, Yorkshire folk, geordies or...

You do both realise you are both falling for a classic Tory divide and conquer in real time don't you! Show some northern solidarity!!

I fear the cycnical political understory here may be correct, a great way to push things onto the Labour mayors. If the Gov has refused to commit to infrastructure improvements this would seem to add to that fear and Arriva will be doing to right thing in walking away. I am not sure I see the...

I do wonder whether this is fertile ground for some early solutions. Could the DfT and TOCS agree rearrangement of crew movements to effectively ban changeovers on any Manchester through platforms and might this have a material impact?

I doubt any disability group or other party taking action would ask for a remedy that includes taking trains off the rails in the short term. Much more likely would be a request for a series of measures to assist the Government in coming back into compliance with the law, and so... - better...

The law works on legal principles, key to which is legal certainty. Governments propose but do not pass legislation. Legislation is passed by a series of votes within our democraticly elected Parliament. Once it has passed and received Royal Assent (the latter is a formality) affected parties...

I heard an rumour about peak busters a while ago but then had the thought that would mess up the substantial gain of new faster timings on the longer lines. Hence perhaps just deploying the old units on one line (Kirkby) where there is little marginal gain from the new timings would be a better...

BJ hasn't formalised anything, the Sec of State for Transport has. He acts under his own delegated authority and Cabinet decision making processes, not the authority of BJ.

If they were struggling for units one idea could be to keep current units on the Kirkby Line until money can be found for more. It is a very short route and so journey times not much of a consideration. It might be in Merseyrails interests to argue extra stock is funded by an additional Central...

Thats a big stat The ROSCO is a bit of a red herring as the TOC is the party that 'activates' the asset by operating it. It is therefore the TOC that bears the legal responsibility for what it runs on the rails. However, it only runs on anything on the rails because of the contractual...

Is there any stock still in use that is not capable of meeting the standard with alterations that have already been made, with the exception of Pacers? If not, it is hard to see particuarly valid excuses. If there is such stock the Government should have sat down and agreed a plan with...

Sometimes legal action of this type is important on the principle. We have a tradition in the UK that if you pass a law you stick to it, especially if you are the Government. The Government is also the correct enforcer of franchise committments which includes compliance with legislation. We have...

The Government has issued the dispensation and so I do not believe the ROSCOs can be sued for breaching disability legislation. TOCs may have contractual claims for any failure to hit contractual PRM work deadlines but that is a seperate matter.

The dispensation has been issued. It is for a lot of trains not a few. Government has predictably blamed TOCs. Should the Goverment be sued? For: The Government is basically another Tory rehash of the same Government that has failed to get a grip of general TOC performance and has also directly...

That would seem the obvious way to reverse out of this latest DfT screw up, if possible. Maybe not all 5 car sets but a good number of them. Its funny, fixed formations on commuter stock appears to be causing problems whereas non-fixed is more of a problem on long distance routes.

If that operator has space for you.

Well I must admit to having become a little confused as to the new timetable and where the timetable is meant to be ending up since the changes having out of the area (although I do pass through Manchester very frequently for work and so am experiencing the meltdown regularly). It would indeed...

It's a mess, and that is evident by the way people are going at each other on here. The deliverable solutions are not at all obvious. Essentially you have lots more people than when there were more lines on a lot less lines going into a lot less west facing terminal capacity, a smaller...