Recent content by Jozhua

Thank you very much for this update! It's surprising to me the lack of criticality lift failures seem to be dealt with on the railway. It's personal experience, but I seem to find a much higher proportion of lifts are out of service on the rail network vs buildings, etc. Still encouraging to...

Doubt the 222s will lapse off lease before the 810s begin arriving. Plenty of fleet cascades have been delayed by the TOC handing over the fleet not getting their new trains when expected. The biggest issue will be keeping the 222s running in the latter half of the century, guessing they'll...

Given the number of failures in the past week, likely the case yes!

And now it looks as though another tram has broken down today! Image taken from Nottingham Post Article: Nottingham tram breaks down in city centre causing heavy delays for commuters Surprising how poor the reliability is on both the older and newer tram units. I have a feeling that they...

Fair enough, the track does look a bit worn round there! Looks like a tram broke down at Hyson Green today o_O

Yes app was quite good with service updates this morning. I also asked them to include cancelled trams at one point and they introduced that a week or two later. :)

This morning it looks like there has been a lot of disruption on the trams in the form ot three sperate incidents. An 'incident' between Old Market Square and David Lane. Additionally, tram failure between Wilford Village/Ruddington Lane and power failure between Toton Lane and Bramcote Lane...

I'm thinking about going to NYC later this year and Norse didn't look much cheaper than the alternatives? Where you get stung is the luggage, which you of course want when travelling across continents. It seems like once all the taxes/tariffs are added on, plus unavoidable fuel, it inevitably...

Doesn't this give some incentive to Stadler to hurry up with introducing the new fleet, or is most of the dawdling down to Nexus now?

I would guess three track would run bi di? Probably not so bad if the track splits before Dore & Totley, rather than having to share a single track through the station too. Did services towards Hope Valley waiting for clearance to pass Dore often block the mainline waiting for the train coming...

In terms of OLE around Sheffield, that probably needs to wait until all the track going into and out of Sheffield station is ripped up and replaced, similar to the remodeling in Derby. I would guess the bridge has been constructed to W12 clearances + OLE?

Wouldn't be surprised if people are bussing either, although I suspect the journey time is pretty brutal from Hucknall Vs tram or train. Closer in, the bus becomes much more competitive, especially as they are all NCT! Will be interesting to see how the train ridership is doing. The problem I...

Has anyone noticed a difference in how busy trams are after the recent fare increases? Toton Lane bound look a little less full at David Lane from what I see, but perhaps it's always a bit quieter at this time of year?

Of course, from the funding perspective, this is a common story on UK rail. The 195s for Northern which were overcrowded on day one, the 185s for TPE which had both less carriages and a reduction in fleet size, despite significant growth in ridership on those routes. A big part of the issue I...

Friendly place in speculative for debates around the merits of the 810s! Ideally we'd like to keep this to just updates and some discussion around bringing the trains into service, rather than about the merits of the trains once they are in service. Hopefully that makes sense...