Recent content by NE_ABZ

Having been brought up in that part of the world, I beg to differ. The 35 suffers as a local service from being a very long route with time keeping problems, and as a long distance bus with too many stops and a 20MPH average speed. Now if the old train line Cairnie Junction to Elgin via Coast...

It might have been a branding exercise more than anything else. The A96 between Aberdeen and Inverness is mostly a simple A road, passing through towns such as Elgin and Keith. From personal experience, it is a road that sometimes has slow speeds due to being stuck behind, tractors, trucks...

They don't need my help for that. I was just pointing out the "little ways" of the council to a wider audience. I try and vote these councillors out .......

Looking at the list of works needing full planning permission, the real difficult area will be the notorious Do Nothing Tories on the Kincardine & Mearns Area Planning Committee of Aberdeenshire Council. Network Rail will have to appeal many planning refusals to the Planning Inspectors. An...

Looking at the battery trains on offer, they are local DMU replacements. Given it is 150 miles between Glasgow Queen Street and Aberdeen and even if optimistically half is electrified, that is still a lot of miles for batteries to power a train (at line speeds of 80-100Mph), as well as somehow...

I do wonder if BEMUs will be adequate in terms of power output to run at line speed up and down gradients. I don't know about the Tweedbank line, but most lines north of the Forth have challenging gradients with line speeds up to 100MPH and long distances. The present Overhead Electrification...

Many OAPs have not got public sector pensions, but rely on the state pension for the bulk of their income. Even the top state pension is way less than the minimum wage these days. Some OAPs pay more in council tax than they do in income tax. I would be careful about asking for parity with state...