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I can't claim Delay Repay when the X41 is delayed! On my most recent trip £15.55 repaid (on a split ticket) for a delay of just over an hour, mostly due to the frequency being hourly from Stoke to home. £12.90 less £15.55 = -£2.65 makes the train worth taking!

Availability of milk at my Tesco (supermarket size) is very variable. I haven't worked out if it is because they are carrying reduced amounts of stock and/or whether they are only having deliveries certain days of the week. My comments apply to semi-skimmed single pints and organic two-pinters...

This is a real pain. Take the following example: Manchester to Accrington CDR route Bromley Cross £12.50 CDR route Todmorden £12.70 CDR route Any Permitted £12.90 In order to buy the Any Permitted you have to find an itinerary travelling out one way and returning the other. Anything else and...

So not even as 'advanced' as I thought! A preliminary business case submitted June 2022 pre Strategic Outline Business Case. For those without time to study these things, this is the classification of schemes used by DfT in their 2022 update on Restoring Your Railway proposals: Unsuccessful...

Yes, why buy the reduced item when you can have a fresh one at the same price? I'd be looking for a similar x% reduction: full price to reduced price, clubcard price to reduced clubcard price.

Nottingham and Sheffield are the ones most often mentioned.

I'm not so sure that this is the 'resounding yes' implied by the article (see extract below). The most recent information was "in May 2022 the Reopening Group submitted a Feasibility, and Preliminary Business Case to the Department of Transport for approval with a response expected in the...

What data are they expecting to collect? Our survey said: In January and February 2024 no people used the footbridge, therefore it is not necessary?

Flexibility to meet the needs of the customer doesn't seem to be a priority. By customer I mean passengers not the DfT.

Apparently there is disruption Bedford - Bletchley today: Taken from the landing page of their website, just right now. There is other information elsewhere but your Martian train enthusiast may think this is a short term problem. 1698260499 These are an extract of their communications. Does...

Is that 3 spares for each driver actually used? ;)

Was that the 'no rush' option with a £1 credit? I guess it was an attempt to allow them to schedule deliveries more efficiently. I have occasionally been a Prime member, mostly for the music / video streaming side but I did take advantage of the unlimited free deliveries to buy more stuff...

Even better if there was someone on the site who goes out to commission them.

A plan of the 'not very secret anymore following a major fire spewing smoke out of manholes throughout the city centre' Guardian Exchange. Piccadilly station on the right about two-thirds down. The only way to have an express surface link would be total / substantial segregation from road...

2018: CRRC Dalian supplied two diesel locomotives and 7 coaches for Abuja - Kaduna. Reference elsewhere to two batches totalling 15 coaches. 2019: CRRC Tangshan supplied 10 out of an order for 60 (or 64) coaches. 2020: CRRC Qishuyan supplied 21 diesel locomotives / multiple units. Six DF11GN...

There is an ad infested article here in The Sentinel 19 October

Well, there you go. It's difficult to get a good picture of happenings in Nigeria. Things get announced all the time, sometimes money gets transferred / spent but that doesn't mean the scheme actually gets built. Abuja (Idu) to Kaduna (Rigasa) (185km) has service already. Kaduna to Kano...

The Wikipedia page mentioned has 'Rail Express Magazine no.329' as the source. Does anyone have a copy of this? Can it be confirmed? The whole page is poorly written so I wouldn't rely on it.

Being 'actively progressed' (by an official body, not a campaign group) is what gets a persons favourite new station proposal into that second table at #1. Being lethargically progressed, or just being an idea floating around, gains relegation to the third division of 'the other 600+'. I did...

Headbolt Lane is as meaningful as Rainford or Kirkby to someone boarding at Blackburn. They've probably never heard of all three. They do want to know if the train is for Manchester and which way (Bolton or Todmorden).