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Recent content by Bletchleyite

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    Grand Central stranding passengers (28/03)?

    Why they have I don't know, but they absolutely do appear to have deleted all Tweets between yesterday and June 18, 2021, with the exception of one about strikes sent on 20th March. This could of course have been a panicked error. There also appear to be replies missing from yesterday, but...
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    Merseyrail should be taken off the National Rail system

    I would agree with this. The reason to kick them off would be punishment - that is, if you're not going to accept national ticketing properly, then we're not going to let you profit from selling it, either.
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    Merseyrail penalty - have cctv proof but appeal is getting rejected

    Indeed. You'd have to try pretty hard (or have sight issues) to get to that lift without seeing the main booking office and TVMs. Though that said some people would assume a metro's ticketing to be separate, so a Merseyrail yellow TVM right next to the lift would be worthwhile. You know my...
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    DfT press release on Northern Powerhouse Rail

    Any electrification is a good thing.
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    LNER to pilot removal of Off-Peak tickets

    So I did. I think I'd suggest a certain newish white-elephant Scottish station just north thereof is probably deserving of a bit of an uplift in passenger usage statistics? :)
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    Rail replacement airplane

    I've never heard of it, but it would seem a sensible replacement if Caledonian Sleeper cancels. Though in such a case, because of the high price of berths, the passenger would probably be quids in if they just refunded their berth and booked with easyJet themselves. I was quite impressed to...
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    Merseyrail penalty - have cctv proof but appeal is getting rejected

    There are fewer than 10 of them across the network so that wouldn't be hard to do.
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    LNER to pilot removal of Off-Peak tickets

    The trick is easy - if you want a Super Off Peak Single from Kings X to Edinburgh, buy one to Haymarket, and if you want one to Newcastle, buy one to Manors. You don't, as things stand, need to do it for any other journey than those two specifically as the Super Off Peaks still exist. It isn't...
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    Settle & Carlisle Line

    I don't *dislike* it but I don't find it spectacular either. It's just pleasant rolling hills, a bit like the Cheshire bit of the WCML.
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    June 2024 Timetable Change

    The proper approach to this, as practiced in places like Switzerland, is to drive at a speed that you get greens, not accelerating to linespeed then stopping again. In countries who know how to operate railways properly, this is part of the working timetable, and often even core to the...
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    LNER to pilot removal of Off-Peak tickets

    It says it but it isn't actually the case on the ground.
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    Wales looks at bus franchising

    When has any commercial bus company in the UK ever cared about quality interchange? If they have I've not experienced it. It's a cultural issue across the entire industry, both its public and private elements.
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    Over 60 Oyster and Boundary Zone tickets

    That used to be the standard rule but hasn't been for a long time. BZ tickets with a Travelcard (day or season) are valid on Avanti etc. It's just a quirk of some TfL passes that those specifically are not.
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    Heysham Port line new stations/improvement potential

    As someone else mentioned the main issue with it is that it floods, but it should in principle be possible to control that by a combination of beefing up flood defences and the provision of balancing systems as tends to very effectively prevent flooding in the new bits of Milton Keynes despite...

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