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Wixams doesn't want to be left out! 1696270616 East Linton now has calls in the GBTT column of Realtime Trains from Monday 11 December 2023.

I agree with yourself and @lkpridgeon, except to say that I remember when we had then NEW 170's on Crewe to Derby/Nottingham, they were nicer then. :frown: Obviously an MGR hopper would probably be better than the 153's in their final days. Then again I also remember the 153's when they were new...

The schedules, as reflected by Realtime Trains, are all-over the place. Most likely due to the very fluid situation. Tomorrow (Monday 2) shows all as non-passenger. Tuesday (3rd) shows public services and non-passenger services for the same Northern service. Click on the public service and it...

Does Miles come in a free-standing punch bag version? I'm thinking of the sort with a heavy base and pivoted from that, rather than one suspended from above. But both would be quite satisfactory I imagine.

Northern have updated their engineering works page:

It is, as they say, no way to run a railway. :lol: I understand 'accentuate the positive and play down the negative' but when that becomes simply ignore anything which isn't positive it has gone to far. People should be kept informed in a timely manner.

Headbolt Lane has entered the Manana zone. Details of a revised opening date are awaited. A PIS would say 'delayed' rather than 'due in 2 days'.

Thanks both, didn't want to go down an internet rabbit hole and end up spend all afternoon going round in circles getting nowhere. 1696079784 From Companies House: Eng Huat UNG DSS GLOBAL LONDON LIMITED (13213668) Company status Active DSS GLOBAL INVESTMENTS LIMITED (11555858)...

Perhaps this would have been a good idea before the latest fire! Reference is made (elsewhere) to the absent owners. Other than them being 'abroad/foreign' has the local press or anyone given any indication of who the owners might be? Picture 2, doorway at base: Welcome to Ayr Scotrail

Marks & Spencers, say 20 to 30 years ago, made a point of owning all their properties freehold. In the interim they have had several financial wobbles but I'm not sure if they did any 'sale and leasebacks' or whether their new, often out-of-town stores, are freehold or leasehold. I can see both...

Or they know but don't want to admit it, perhaps because some pet projects may need to be admitted as failures! I never got the rebranding as 'and partners' and now they seem to think they are a housebuilder. Imagine a housebuilder suddenly deciding they could run supermarkets or department stores!

There is a reasonable map based route here which I went to after my previous post. It shows a first phase to Flood Street (one stop after Dudley), a second phase to Waterfront (3 stops) and a third phase to Brierley Hill (two stops plus a potential third I think).

Note that 'personality' is in inverted commas. It's still all still a string of 1's and 0's based on a logical pre-determined process. Tell me chat bot what do you think about the refs decision on Saturday. Don't tell me what an internet search of chat rooms reveal other people are saying, what...

Reading that in isolation the current Metro extension will get from Wednesbury, through Dudley town centre to Merry Hill Waterfront only ie the business park not the shopping centre or retail parks which are some distance away - hence the original monorail (some good footage of that on Youtube)...

I don't do bus types! They were all double deckers though and at least one was boasting about it's elastic trickery credentials. I happened to be on a bus going through the city centre when I remembered this thread and started 'spotting'.

It's a common situation, here is a story from 2015 Rossendale Free Press 26 March 2015 This was followed up in 2016 with Telegraph and Argus 20 December 2016

I saw a number of 73 plate buses today in Manchester, all in the Burnham Bee livery.

This section of the Wikipedia page (linked previously) suggests that Metro on the Dudley line was being considered in the late 1980's, as the monorail had a proposed interchange with it. And finally.

You're a very bad person @Bald Rick, but having fallen for the click bait here goes. I well remember the single annual letter change and, like people sleeping out for the Next sale or latest Apple product, people being on showroom forecourts ready to roll just after midnight, with lots of press...