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    SNP ends powering sharing with the Scottish Greens

    As @brad465 also notes, the current administration in one shape or form or another has been in power in Edinburgh since 2007 and there are many elements of it that are very much in need of a refresh now, speaking from my own personal viewpoint here I have never felt that a largely one trick pony...
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    Edinburgh bus station under threat as owners plan to end lease with council

    Unless of course they are for tourist accommodation or student flats which they rubber stamp without looking at them these days, x Edinburgh resident speaking no word of a lie
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    London North Eastern Railway (LNER) First Class service

    I haven't looked through the full menu but is there a meat option on the dish or is it just the PI as the hot option? Not the time likely to be traveling anyway as the first advances seem to have shot to a new and alarmingly scary price
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    Labour promises rail nationalisation within five years of coming to power

    And also delivered highly successful no growth franchises like the original northern and a river trains Wales. Forgive me for my obvious cynicism that we will see anything transformationally radical this time except perhaps as mentioned in the opening post a great British railways rebrand which...
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    Scottish Citylink

    Shouldn't be a problem I don't think but maybe worth a customer service email to them, they usually pretty responsive and I can't imagine that for a simple thing like a name change they would charge you in a thing if they wanted to update the system and send you a new confirmation
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    Edinburgh bus station under threat as owners plan to end lease with council

    This is complete and total lunacy. Does it also affect the Harvey nickels development and units on moultry's walk? None of the city centre suggestions above would now work both due to their silly little toy train and the fact that Edinburgh 2027 looks very different in terms of road and traffic...
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    Teesside Airport: Route to Aberdeen cut by Loganair

    For contacts, loganair are really really battling it all at the moment, they've had all sorts of problems and delays with introducing new aircraft, crew shortages and all manner of problems on their Scottish domestic network and the previous managing director departed at the front end of this...
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    Labour promises rail nationalisation within five years of coming to power

    Well this has taken its time to come out, it's been a fairly major policy in their last three highly successful election manifestos and I just wonder how much of a difference it will make this time when we have industrial relations meltdown and a post pandemic railway compared to 2019
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    Glasgow Subway new stock

    Are those of us with disabilities that might appreciate a very basic announcement informing us that the next station is partick not worthy of consideration? Perhaps you'd like all disabled people deported to Rwanda along with all those nasty asylum seekers and then you wouldn't have to worry...
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    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    If they are the same seats as in the flirt then I'm moderately happy, although not quite sure what Edinburgh to Exeter might be like on one, not that I'm likely to do that journey anytime soon
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    Parking at Tweedbank station

    Scotrails indiscriminate use of the crapulous 170 on any Central belt area diesel working is a big issue for me and as you say the poor acceleration that would quite possibly be OutRun by a hamster pushing a filing cabinet he's an issue on this route in particular We really should be doing...
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    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    To those who have seen them, does the imagery give any indication as to which one of the generally dismal selection of modern train seats we're going to be suffering in for the next 15 years?
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    24 registration buses and coaches

    Don't imagine Cumbria or west Scotland are at all happy at the shiny new buses being diverted to Manchester, I assume these will be replaced by later builds from the batch or will they exercise one of No doubt many options for additional vehicles? Would love some YouTube footage of these new...
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    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    Would love to see them strip out most of the huge bogs and replace with smaller ones plus either a couple of tip up seats or an extra luggage stack. The large luggage storage area in coach d isn't as well used as I think they anticipated and this space could possibly also be used better, totally...
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    Flixbus Discussion

    Potentially the only one of their services I might ever use as it's such a short journey they can't possibly get it wrong???
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    Avanti West Coast Glasgow to London Services

    And there is also currently too much reliant on the Merseyside trains forming the primary fast Euston i.e last stop Stafford or sometimes even non-stop London with many of the services from Preston or Blackpool and all of the services from Edinburgh going via the West Midlands and the services...
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    Glasgow Subway new stock

    Or indeed a never-ending circle and a lot of guesswork should you be in a position, as I am where you can't see the wall mounted signage or appreciate anything that might be being displayed on internal display screens. I find your whole view on this somewhat now reminded but we'll let it go as...
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    New International Rail Terminal

    Here's a novel idea, how about starting and terminating some international services in Kent? Behind locked doors and security barriers is all the infrastructure moulding away, it wouldn't take more than a recruitment drive and a few maintenance contractors to bring all this back into use again...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Meanwhile I shall be emailing rishi a few thoughts of my own, mainly related to but not entirely on the subject of his proposed shake up of disability benefits collar something his party already has form for from the camera and Osborne era but also something which has clearly not been at all...
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    Avanti West Coast Glasgow to London Services

    Personally I think that every couple of hours one of the Glasgow London services should call their anyway as standard both to provide additional capacity on fast London services for passengers with connections at crew but also to restore journey opportunities that are less frequent now as there...

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