Recent content by Shaw S Hunter

Slight difference in the service level on the two different routes.

On the WCML it'd be a much bigger benefit to have all freight electrically hauled: pathing would be easier and reliability improved.

Leicester - Sheffield could be served by a XC route via EWR instead of New Street ie (somewhere further north) - Sheffield - Leicester - Bedford - Oxford - Swindon - West Country or S Wales

You could well be right, I haven't checked and am not going to. The same query could also be made of Bianca Andreescu who won the 2019 US Open aged 19 and has not won a tournament since then. Of course tennis being an individual sport makes it much harder for one competitor to be dominant over...

The rankings are defined by the ranking points earned on the professional world tour. Raducanu has simply earned more points over the last 12 months than any other British player. The reality is that this country is not a big tennis nation so only occasionally produces players capable of...

Some of this is a hangover from a traditional SNCF operational method, namely "marche a blanc". This refers to a white space in the timetable planning graph whereby no trains are run to allow time for track maintenance spot checks to be carried out. The precise time would vary from line to line...

That'll have younger folk here scratching their heads!

I'm sure the industry is well aware. But the answer means slackening diagrams somewhat or more spares which means increased staff costs. DfT/HMT is not interested. Usual argument about knowledge of costs vs value of outcomes.

Improving the Liverpool to Manchester Airport service currently relies on using the Castlefield corridor. It should be obvious by now that this will not provide any significant increase in capacity: Castlefield needs a "bypass" and that means a tunnel. As to Liverpool Airport, busy as it may...

One factor is once you get away from long-distance routes crew duties rarely stick to one route/service group. For Liverpool-Blackpool services any Lime Street crews for the evening almost inevitably were disrupted on a Manchester run earlier. And the incident occurred at a time when almost all...

Because the Up Manchester service suffered a sufficiently late start that the connection would have been (narrowly) missed. As such the order was to have the Down service wait at Crewe to ensure the connection was made as opposed to it making an unscheduled stop.

The initial plan was for a 28-storey block containing 171 apartments but was later changed to the current proposal for a 36-storey student residence. It appears that even after planning permission was granted, the developer has continued to modify the detailed design in response to feedback from...

Except that for timetabling/pathing purposes additional tracks would be much more useful towards the middle of the route. A new line with an independent route in/out of Manchester also avoids it's timetable having to fit in with the Manchester tangle that currently causes so many problems. We...

I guess he has given up on his Nobel Peace Prize. Will it make a difference to his approach to the war in Ukraine?

Well worth having a look at the fares page on the Dalesbus website; the ENCTS restrictions are not indicative of any wider restrictive fares policy, indeed the tie-ups with Transdev's network on Sundays and Bank Holidays are decent value. And minor correction: since becoming a unitary authority...