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With Victoria now being the main Manchester station hub for TPE it needs to be transferred to Network Rail and needs significant upgrading of the through platforms. Lifts, lighting, display screens, staff levels, ventilation the lot. The lack of escalators is a real problem with the volumes of...

Interesting. How does the rest of the hour look?

Ah right, thanks. Pick up/set down only always makes me laugh as a concept. Maximum confusion for passengers. Anyway, that is probably OT.

When are the Liverpool to Glasgow services now due to start (I think they were originally pencilled in for 2018?). Perhaps they will help with capacity on the Manchester - Scotland services by taking some of the intermediate station traffic off. Presumably some of the Liverpool - Scotland load...

I need to do a Liverpool to Durham and back in a day next week for a meeting. Any risk of me being able to aim for at least a leg on one of these units?

and so 12 x how ever many seat parts are in each of these train seats will be thrown away (except for a few kept as spares for other GWR units?). The mind boggles. The ultimate in throw away society. It will be interesting to see if they can make the ironing boards comfortable using the very...

To find out that this is a contributory factor to travel chaos on Sundays on Northern land is an absolute joke. I am firmly of the view that Sundays being volunteer led is ridiculous, because it is. However, to find out that the system could probably run a whole lot more efficiently until the...

With TfW seemingly making progress with a Class 67 and MK IV combination and apparently plenty of both going spare is this looking anymore like a good fix for Cross Country capacity issues? The leasing companies must be ready to do a very good deal to get the units back into use. I did see a...

W Does a 1 minute dwell time mean 1 minute from set down to moving off? I can't see any stock achieving that at these stations. Mark IV's would surely suffer the same challenge as any other long distance stock at these stations, end door or not. There are a variety of routes, trains often...

I just wonder if a proportion of Southport/Formby potential passengers are put off by the stopping service but would go for what they might see as a premium product. However, I would agree that modal shift is about overall shift rather than enticing a particular type of passenger out of their...

Do forum members feel Merseyrail would ever introduce a peak express on the Southport route? It has often struck me that a peak Southport to Liverpool leaving just before the next stopper and stopping at Formby and maybe Waterloo or Crosby and Sandhills would be a very popular commuter service...

Ot If you have reserved seat on the portion that is cancelled are you entitled to a refund? It it is along distance train and so you should be. It is ridiculous to say 'just squeeze on the other bit'. Hitachi should be under a penalty of about average loading x refund at open ticket price for a...

If the pan goes up automatically, why does it not go down automatically if the train moves off in the opposite direction? What is the trigger that normally tells the train to raise it/drop it automatically?

Thinking more about the transfer point, does anybody know what National Rail allows for in journey planner? I just tried to work it out but failed.

There needs to be a train on the platform you are transferring to to have successfully changed! So it is transfer time PLUS time until the next train, plus a margin of error as you are probably on your way to work. That easily adds up to 10-15 minutes even for somebody fit and able, especially...

I am not sure DfT would have had any control over this one? I am thinking maybe it was a certification issue in that these seats have all been certified for this train already and TPE found it would have been costly to certify a different seat? In general there has been a substantial downgrade...

From what I can see TPE have adopted the same seat in standard across the Nova fleet but this first unit in service has a different covering to the CAF units. The seats in 1st on the Nova 1 look to be the same seats as in 1st on the Azuma's and GWR trains and nowhere near as good as the seats...

Lots of flooding around the country at the moment and lots of disruption to rail services. It will be interesting to see how the Conwy Valley line holds up this week. Do forum members feel we are reaching a point with any of these flooding/landslip problems where we can say, 'this is now...

Agreed! This should be a national edict. Happens at Thameslink St Pancras a lot as well. Then causes problems with overall flow. In general I think ticket barrier lines at busy stations should have a clearly designated manned wide gate and then a clearly designated wide gate with a...

I was attracted to the 230 and 769 project by the upcycling fan in me and the idea of a new strand of British in-house engineering. Neither seem to have gone well. Are there any historic examples of similar levels of conversion that have been nailed?