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Airlines change a section from first to pleb class by adjusting the seating (Thy have a way of making a 3 into a 2) and moving a curtain. So maybe someone needs to think of a way to declassify some first provision when first class demand is low and 2nd class is high. But of course the 2nd...

An equitable system would differentiate between the forgetful, and those wilfully evading. But how you determine which of those a passenger with a ticket irregularity is would be difficult.

Cant the guard switch between units at an intermediate station?

Give the £££ to the Railway Benefit Fund

And, IMHO, they are better trains to ride on. Less noise, and no smelly diesel fumes (laden with particulates) in stations.

Waddingtons were a Leeds company. So probably used an LNER timetable to pick the termini from.

There used to be a through brum new st -pwllheli train at about 5pm when i was commuting from new st. Poor old brummie announcer! But he did have the fun of announcing the train to Tenby from plat 10B!

Treasury will also rework the numbers with a socking great increase in contingency. Bet they have increased that after the cost overruns on GW and crossrail

If you want to combat fraud you have to increase the chance of fraud detection. The 'have your tickets been checked' thread is depressing reading. We need to understand why guards are failing to check tickets. Once people get used to travelling for nothing, the behavior will become ingrained.

How about Blea Moor. Many have heard of it. But there is nothing there. And Batty Moss. Only a viaduct there (proper old name for Ribblehead Viaduct is Batty Moss Viaduct) And a short distance south of ribblehead Stn is a set of 4 Midland Railway cottages, Salt Lake, named after the...

Couple of things about the evolving WCML. 1. The concept of a train as a unit was gaining favour. Originally the coaches and BG but with the DVTs the loco as well. There was supposed to be no chopping and changing of vehicles within the sets but of course it happened! 2. As part of the yearn for...

There used to be a Barrow-Whitehaven bus. No more.

So 2 travelling together. Need a plug each. Or take a 4 blocker.

Wasnt Brill the same?

Oxenholme? Its really part of Kendal. Garsdale?

If carting a reasonable number of people on a daily basis to a leisure facility on existing track is not 'what the railway does well', what is the railway for?

Google maps. You can make your own overlays. But getting the curves right will give you a headache!

LU have to look at more automation and computerisation. Getting/retaining decent staff is getting harder and harder. Bit difficult times ahead.

I used to commute from marston gren to five ways around 1990. The down freight line through Adderley Park was just taken out of use and the OHLE was earthed with big red cables. Don't remember what the earth end was attached to. Prob a DEP.

Settle. 1980 it had 2 trains a day. Now it has a regular service and is quite busy.