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WFH was a thing pre-pandemic. Covid just gave it the impetus to expand by a lot. People were sliding out of coming into work for odd days at my clients way back in 2015. Any old excuse would do because management did it too! I was WFH back in 2010. 1 day in work a fortnight. It aint new.

Not sure major conurbations are viable public transport areas. Many of the bus services have been thinned out or abandoned. Or finish too early in the evening. The offering in Leeds is a shadow of what was running when I was a kid (60's/70's), when just using the bus was an option.

but people do this all the time. They will drive past Manchester airport to catch a flight from Heathrow without a thought of the cost of getting to Heathrow. Or they will drive to an Aldi in the next town 16 miles away because the Waitrose where they live is too expensive.

158's are aliminium. Isnt there a metal fatigue life consideration? Or just weld it up.

Beware. There are people making replica ones. Many of the ones on preserved buses are replicas because the originals have decayed beyond use.

Government wont make cuts. There will be a challenging spending review leading to difficult choices in Network Rail and the TOCs'. The railway is a network of quangos to distance ministers from making unpopular decisions. And has been since 1948.

Try geograph.org.uk. pix of Uk sorted by 1km grid square.

If you like art deco then you need the 1930's tube stations. Gants Hill for starters

Contactless limit is £100

Yes. Look especially at the foliage at the tops of the canopy supports.

Not for a 'customer not present' transaction. For them you need the CVV (3 digits on the back)

150. They have a workhorse where a short train with a decent capacity is needed. no bells and whistles so little to go wrong.

Easier solutions than Colne - Skipton 1. A curve at Gannow to allow Colne trains to run via Copy Pit to wherever. I would send them to Manchester rather than to Leeds. 2. Improve the bus service that runs Burnley - Keighley. Use the M65 more rather than ploughing through the likes of...

And we have hills Who fancies cycling from Bradford city centre to Idle? Or even Shipley to Baildon. Bradford did OK with buses and trolleybuses when the city centre was where people wanted to go. With employment distributed far and wide, and longer distance commuting being a thing now, there...

Its got loads of level crossings oncluding one at Onibury over the main A49. They need sorting.

I get videos from an American lady who moved to Leeds, on Faceache. She says driving in the UK is VERY hard compared to the US. We have towns with narrow streets and single track roads in the country. And main roads with bends on them. She learned to drive UK style and took a UK driving test...

If people are going for the great trainsheds on the east coast, then you have to mention Manchester Piccadilly and Liverpool Line St on the West Coast I have a soft spot for Oxford Rd but it needs a tart up. And Carlisle is good. Smaller stations - Bingley, Hellifield and Settle....

make more sense to wire Skipton - Carnforth/Carlisle

Just got this Hull - York Leeds timetable (Images are thumbnails - click for full size image) When its all scanned it will go on Timetable World

One of the issues was binary driving. The timetable needed periods of full power interspersed with just hotel load. So stuff got hot then cooled leading to thermal stressing. I think the cylinder heads were the worst affected. Big problem on western with the frequent stops as the HST services...