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If this all goes well I really do hope deals can be done to extend the application of the MKIVs. I would love to see them on more of the North/South wales services and: Manchester - Cardiff Liverpool - Holyhead Liverpool - Nottingham (although I accept 185s much more likely but the MKIV...

Thanks, will seek it out!

I have had a flick through the posts here and couldn't see that this Network Rail report had been posted anywhere...

2 very good points! I did find the article very interesting in general though. I am on my way to catch my last Virgin train to Liverpool and will no doubt ponder how the ride might change if you are slammed around a few of these corners without tilt. Having said that there are days when the...

Yep, that is a lot more like it. It's quite simple, the powers that be have managed to stuff up pretty much every single new train interior design in the current crop of new stock. GA Stadlers being the exception.

I don't think this a prediction, hope or preference... These units are clearly not going to tilt. What are the consequences I wonder in terms of: - ability to be pathed on the same path as a 390/tilting voyager could/keep to 390/tilting voyager timings? - ability to play catch up when the...

Hmmmm talk of new seats makes me very nervous. I have not seen any evidence of better seats than the 390's being available for 125mph running. Also, why? We are in a climate emergency - that is quite well recognised now. Why on earth throw all those perfectly good seats away. If they were...

I don't think the triangle works at all. If the third side (the isle of man line) doesn't exist and so it doesn't make sense. They should have taken that side off so it more like a sort of V perhaps. The external livery does not suit the internal seat colours. The red maybe just about okay but...

Bearing in mind this is the route more than any other where you can find yourself with a very hefty bill for accidentally getting on the wrong company's train it is not exactly passenger friendly to have a similar colour livery to the other operator. Then again this is First, it is probably in...

I think the preference on West Yorkshire should be to alternate destinations with a lower frequency to each rather than splitting. Just a hunch but that would work out better from a performance perspective. My preference would be for splitters as a higher frequency is always a nice thing but I...

On the performance risk point, on the already busy/congested routes from Skipton and Huddersfield, there might be a significant risk of units not arriving aa planned to join at Leeds and so one unit arrives later than the time for the planned onward path to KX. Leeds is not the sort of station...

Well there is a paragraph before it to help you with this difficult task. The call I have made, very simply, is not to trust the train between Warrington and Liverpool South Parkway today because of planned and unplanned cancellations. It is a similar call I made earlier this morning not to...

I have not claimed to be stranded in Warrington.

The inability to plug these supposed 'planned' and the additional 'unplanned' cancellations effectively means you have to presume there is no service at all on the relevant route. I have just had to make that call in terms of getting from Warrington to Liverpool. As a side point, why are...

My personal preference for northern TPE would be to drop out one service per hour across the core and lengthen everything to 6 carriages. Same for anglo-Scottish in terms of another carriage. There is bags of demand at all times of the day and that may well build further. However, the...

Really? I can't think of a single TPE service I have caught at any time of the day that has had any empty seats at any time of the day for years now. Are you sure you are not referring to the huge amount of trains down south carting around fresh air except at peak times ;) I was at Wigan the...

Would this prevent damage to the engines? Does the engine need to be running for the problems that are being experienced to occur or is it just the general soaking that would cause the problem? As a contracts lawyer this is an interesting one. I would say the drafting is inadequate. Where...

Great advert! Well done whoever put that together. Put a smile on my face that did.

Why go with Class 43 over units that TfW are already making to work. Would the Class 43 shift more carriages at the right speeds?

Would it have to be HST sets? If TfW are really going to get MKiV sets up and running on diesel as quickly as they hope to, is that not a much more compliant and sensible short term measure? Those carriages are also available now, are fully compliant, have DVT's so only one loco required and...