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    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    I think there's a great deal more understanding about lighting color temperature nowadays not to mention an awful lot of moaning done not just on forums like this but in the more upper class newspapers that passengers paying stupidly high fairs to travel on some of these routes felt like they...
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    Ferrying vehicles between depots and operators - who drives em ?

    Must be quite a cushy number for drivers with a full license but who have had enough of or for some reason can no longer do passenger or private higher work in the same way as they once did
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    Already long since mastered that particular technique Although truth be told for Inverness at the moment I would fly if I wanted anywhere south of Newcastle or Carlisle The new grand Union open access from sterling will be interesting particularly if at least some of them connect quite...
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    This is going off topic of it but I wonder if the LNER fleet gets new seats or current ones are substantially upgraded as has been discussed elsewhere on this forum if the number of people using the sleeper on some of the longer runs may drop slightly, like yourself I certainly could not do...
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    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    I started an srps thread in here the other day, I'm sure we could discuss this further in there, not least because I was unaware that they had decided to not go ahead with see the l fitment and therefore no longer have mainline registered stock...
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    Accommodation suggestions and reviews

    Anyone looking just for a day trip I would thoroughly recommend the Birkenhead Belfast ferry where the fares do very slightly as they are yield managed but the price of other services such as food and accommodation on board are fixed and The cabins of extremely reasonable both in terms of price...
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    Class 165 on service to Great Malvern

    Having stood from Salisbury to Bristol last year I was actually quite impressed with how good the ride quality was certainly compared to the IET that I rode later in the day, on sufferance it must be added as the working I was chasing was booked 387
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    Unless they know something we don't And quite honestly I think we should find the money for 10, given how hard the Lizzy works these days and the fact that stock will need maintenance at some point
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    Ferrying vehicles between depots and operators - who drives em ?

    Fascinating thread and I've so often wondered about this, particularly where the big groups like stagecoach send buses for example from Dover or Ashford all the way to East Scotland, a journey which must take a good 12 hours in a vehicle limited to 62 miles an hour and which might start to...
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    London North Eastern Railway (LNER) First Class service

    Unless they took your order as you boarded I can't imagine them having time to serve a hot meal between York and Newcastle if I'm honest Also on many services there is a complete staff change at Newcastle and the departing team are often packing up by the time you get to Durham
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    TRIVIA: Examples of train refurbishments (past or present) that were a step up from the same train's previous interior

    The 25 CL 158s that were at the time allocated to Inverness and got a very heavy refurbishment in first ScotRail days were absolutely brilliant and remain so to this day, not least because the horrible Richmond seating was disposed of and these same seats were reupholstered in the later fleet...
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    SRPs Railtours-situation 2024 and possible future

    This was certainly the thought process that I went through when this came up I did find myself on a bus about 18 months ago with an srps member who said something about vacuum retention toilet fitment also being looked at but again this isn't cheap and I somehow can't imagine the electrical...
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    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    Well theres a shedload of MK5 with increasingly little work to do, wouldn't be difficult I shouldn't think to strip the current interior and fit compartments
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    SRPs Railtours-situation 2024 and possible future

    can't find any other threads discussing this in any detail but my attention was caught in the WCRC monster discussion by a little dialogue between @d1630 And @paul1609 About the ongoing and potential future situation at SRPS railtours, I have rather cac handedly quoted the two posts in...
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    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    And indeed this could soon be the only use for them if various people get their way Drifting a little further back to topic, it will be very interesting now to see what sort of time scale the review of WC RC application for exemptions takes, would I be being highly cynical if I said that it...

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