Recent content by bluenoxid

How many documents/policies will the royal train withdrawal save? Are royal train rules and processes applied when they travel on a normal train? Does it risk any jobs at Wolverton where I think it’s based? I assume that not all the carriages are of interest if the train was to be put on display.

Considering the information provided, there is the reasonable possibility that the OP has already engaged Network Rail, received a response, quote and thought that seems high for a railway line that they haven’t seen any trains on, which considering the last movement that previous posters can...

Money and safety are huge influences. Work driven by government and local authority funding is restricted and highly controlled. There isn’t the headroom in projects to pick up another 10% because costs overrun unexpectedly without raiding limited pots and having full project reviews. Full road...

It will be interesting to see how they write the diagrams and adjustments needed to the timetable in the peak hour. The Harrogate line is also impacted by the East Coast timetable redraft.

Not at all far off at 36.185m in 23/24

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Northern team is smaller compared to the size of the operation that Merseyrail provides and I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve had to prioritise what they can deal with. I’ve dealt with great people but their ideas have been outside of the capabilities of the...

As well as accidentally contacting it, I think there would be an argument about reasonableness damaging people’s property to mitigate fair evasion.

The LNER appear to be booked for platform 4, which a 5 car train would achieve but it appears that a full length Azuma was provided. The service that formed the 2133 used platform 2 as booked. There’s probably a question to ask if work could be done to allow a 9/10 car train to pass the signal...

Harrogate line passengers are very aware of 150’s and 158’s with regular diagrams and substitutions.

Last year, a podcast that I enjoyed was released called D-Day: the tide turns. The work done on deception was vast and some of it bold as brass. The preview episode with the headmaster is a story you don’t hear about often.

I am also looking at using the LG TV satellite tuner and having the same issue (with Sky bills increasing at pace). The biggest problem with swapping the LNB is getting to the dish but most areas will have a local Aerial and Satellite company who I assume treat this as standard bread and butter...

The interesting bit is when there’s a rail replacement bus or someone travels on a road parallel to the railway.

Ideally, the station would be closer to the White Rose Centre. Potentially, they should pick up the phone with whoever supplied Leeds Bradford Airport with those extended bus shelters. Bus journey times and reliability are pretty poor in Leeds. I wouldn’t rule out people using the train to get...

Would Avanti be interested in running Birmingham to Manchester or is the view that concentrating the number of services to a smaller number of operators better?

North Yorkshire Council and York City Council wants the business rates, outside of work spending and economic activity in their council area, not in Leeds.