Recent content by Christian Schm

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Not sure why this has been split off? Cardiff - Abergavenny very much is park of the Metro - it is shown as such on TfW maps and WG & TfW have confirmed it (and would surely be happy to do so again if you asked them) Also, the commitment to a turn-up-and-go service (aka 4 tph) is also to the...

Yes, the switch is west of Neugraben station. Until December 2023 route S3 operated to Stade. In the peaks this involved run in 9-car-formation up to Neugraben, where 3 cars that weren’t capable of running under overhead would be detached. This regularly caused issues, so S3 trains are now all...

Eating Essen

Yep, day visas for East Berlin (which were different to visas for the rest of East Germany) always required going back via the same crossing that you entered.

TfW has long committed to reduce the fares from Abergavenny (& Chepstow) to Cardiff, which were so much higher than from other stations that are a similar distance. But that would have exacerbated the split ticket issue on the Marches line. So they went for PAYG as a solution, as you can’t us it...

Great map! A couple of Monmouthshire comments: - There are 2 routes between Newport and Chepstow, 73 and X74/74, both are hourly - There are 2 routes between Monmouth and Chepstow, 69 (hourly) and 65 (less than hourly) - Route 60 between Newport and Monmouth is hourly - Merthyr to Abergavenny...

I would be interested in a quote for that. Because I don’t think that’s the the same as TfW has said to various stakeholders over the years.

I was born in Berlin (West), but lived in Hamburg. In the 1980s I made lots of trips to Berlin, and a few to east Germany too. There were basically four types of trains: transit trains between West Germany and West Berlin long-distance interzonal trains between West Germany and East Germany...

As far as I understand the two-hourly Liverpool - Cardiff service (which would give 2tph between Shrewsbury and Cardiff) has been ‘postponed’. That certainly my notes from a TfW briefing, so on a Saturday evening I can’t find that now. The obvious follow-up question of ‘until when’ was answered...

Well to a degree they are. Malcolm Reed, the first boss of TS, was the then boss of SPT. The SPT rail team was transferred to TS whole. Many more of the initial TS jobs went to SPT staff.

Or maybe the community should just change their spelling of their place if they are really bothered about the pronunciation?

Well, when it comes to bus stops, NapTAN counts every pole&flag, and every stand in a bus station separately. So surely, for railway and Metro stations, it should could every platform separately? With the northing/eastings the exact point where passengers would access the platform (e.g. bottom...

Note that when Larkhall was planned it didn't have a business case under rail passenger demand handbook either. But SPTE had its own model, thought they knew better, and was able to fund it out of their own resources. And they were of course right, patronage is as expected. Since then the...

i‘ve seen a few tenders, but still waiting for one where the difference is actually 1p. Or even less than £1k/year. Note that operators also can and do reject offers. Especially if like last winter lots of councils put out lots of tenders: operators have to bid quite blind, and are likely to...