Recent content by CBlue

And if you wanted your communications to be taken seriously, I very much hope you left out "disgrace" "abhorrent" et cetera in your writing - just as suggested the bit of my post you seemingly felt you didn't need to respond to. Sending messages with much wailing and gnashing of teeth tends to...

Given that the target market for building trains to UK spec is tiny, how do you expect to sustain the train builder given how long rolling stock lasts? Such a new enterprise is also going to struggle to complete internationally on export orders. You make the situation even worse if you're trying...

I'm not sure the opinions of a web forum are really going to be something Optare / Switch base production decisions around. Those Stratas and similar are cheap, and therefore ideal for those really marginal routes that the Solo was originally developed for. Producing a bespoke bus like the E200...

OP, have you perhaps thought about contacting Stagecoach and making your opinion known? This facebook post (which I'm also unable to read) seems to have wound you up a bit. If you do I'd advise against hyperbolic language like "abhorrent" and "a disgrace" which just devalues any sort of...

Not sure what you're seeing that I'm not, but the silver logo below the windscreen says "Ayats" - a Spanish coachbuilder iirc. Their double deck coaches and open top tourist buses had a bit of popularity in the UK about 20 years ago now.

FWIW, wiring a plug is still taught in GCSE science. My favourite bodge was finding that the by then deceased elderly owner of a bungalow had once fitted wired a old fashioned bar element bathroom heater up himself. The cable terminated in a standard three pin plug, attached to a multi gang...

Only running part of the route isn't good enough regardless, especially on the last service of the day and regardless of any other cover in place like taxis. As mentioned several pages back in the thread, the taxi fare refund is thanks to BSIP policy from Derbyshire County Council, it doesn't...

Not something that an additional W&C line stop is going to solve. Walking at street level with heavy luggage is definitely preferable to lugging it up and down escalators, and onto undersized deep-level tube trains. Google maps suggests a four minute saving by public transport from Blackfriars...

I'll admit I don't know Peckham at all, and only ever been to Brixton twice - but putting both into directions on google maps gives me a.....30 minute bus ride. A bus route that runs every 10 mins at peak, and maintains a half-hourly service between midnight and 05:00. From my perspective, I'm...

It's gone beyond ranting. More like impotent shouting into the void, in honesty.

This is reminding me of an anecdote from when TfL took over the Greater Anglia services out of Liverpool Street. Apparently there was genuine surprise among some that the increasingly athritic 317s and 315's hadn't been replaced overnight with brand new stock.

......until the inevitable disruption happens and more issues get caused by the restriction being in place!

Up to you dude but this has to be one of the dafter bits of "reasoning" I've seen! Given that the seat back tables in the 379s screeched like hell barely months into service it'll likely take more than WD40 to shut them up.

Great, given the commercial "AI's" out there tend to hallucinate and spout nonsense I look forward to being told my train to Liverpool St on platform 2 is actually bound for Manchester from Platform 68...

More like Ely or Peterborough given how many services link through to Ipswich / Norwich / Cambridge and beyond from there. Ipswich less so in that regard.