Recent content by Bertie the bus

If the driver of the steam loco had to return to Fort William to fetch the rescue loco then all a loco on the rear would have done is add additional weight as it couldn't be used to assist if there was only 1 available driver.

The Northern Belle is CDL fitted and still operating. So there is still competition in the fine dining market. RTC are still running tours operated by WCRC using compliant stock. So there are still some day out type tours running. WCRC are still selling tickets for the Dalesman and Scarborough...

Does he claim the unreliability of the aircon on their stock is outside of their control as well as all the other stuff that is within their control? If he is being honest here, and it is a big if, then why are they still selling tickets for the Dalesman and Scarborough Spa Express? Selling...

There is nothing savvy about trying to implicate a completely innocent person for something you have done. It is scummy, not savvy. There is also nothing savvy about being dishonest (fare dodging) and then compounding it with more dishonesty (false details). That is called being a fundamentally...

Hopefully, if there is any justice in the world, something very unpleasant. Dropping someone else in it for something you've done in pretty low.

I have no idea why anybody would consider this to be a Scottish only matter when the letter clearly doesn’t just relate to The Jacobite and the first sentence explains what the connection is.

So it's perfectly normal for 2 operators to just send loco's and stock hundreds of miles to the West Highlands of Scotland? One of which announces a couple of charters with only a couple of day's notice and the other sends stock that can't be used on passenger services. Nothing to see here...

It is odd how whenever a politician says anything some people object but representatives of the railway seem to be able to say anything they want, no matter how ridiculous, and that seems to be fine because they work on the railway. A day or so after the derailment occurred North West Tonight...

The last 2 bits of damaged wall weren't caused by the accident. They must have been deliberate to allow access to the leading bogies of the first 2 carriages. Photo here showing no damage to the wall towards the front of the train -...

They’re lumps of metal with some glass, plastic and upholstery so if you want to be taken seriously cut out the absurd use of words like divisive as though I’ve said something racist or homophobic. They didn’t work when Vivarail converted them. They don’t work after some other company has tried...

Up to this point there is no evidence they can be sorted out. They have tried before and failed so how and why is this attempt going to succeed? The last lot they got tinkering with them were reportedly a very expensive specialist contractor, so if they couldn't knock them into shape what...

I wonder exactly how much good money they are going to throw after bad to try and save face. They allegedly spent a significant sum on a specialist contractor sorting them out before they were introduced, and less than 1 year later are throwing more money at them in a vain attempt to make them...

What you are suggesting is fantasy rubbish. Even in this fantasy section of the forum suggestions should really have some basis in reality and yours don't. I don't dislike Hellifield at all. It is a perfectly pleasant little village in a very nice area of the country but it is a nothing place of...

Yeah, right. Lumo's main aim isn't to increase revenue and profit, it is to reduce the number of flights. How public spirited of it. So when one FG company creates a ready made market for another FG company by its actions the latter company isn't in any way going to take advantage of that...

I'm sure Lumo is very interested in what Avanti does. One FirstGroup company gets money for nothing (their own words) from the government for running a completely sub par service and then another FirstGroup company steps in and takes some its disaffected customers, revenue and profit - the...