The first A1 to Penzance is run by TfC so of course she can't buy a return as it won't be accepted by FK. That and not being able to use her railcard must be a significant additional expense over the week.
Is there a reason for struggling are they wider of longer?
What currently operates on 70/70a? If E400s, then why do the new ones ground? As I understand it E400 MMC's have the same underpinnings as a 'classic' E400.
Weren't VRs kept to almost the last on the Torpoint Ferry routes for this very reason?
Apparently it was the exhaust that caught. It made me wonder if they have ferry lifts or are poverty spec like the dealer stock E200MMC which don’t have such features.
Here is a photo of the rear of the new e400mmc dont know what I'm looking at in terms of the rear
In terms of the rear overhang it is greater on Euro VI than for the equivalent Euro V E400. Abellio London had at least one very early Euro VI original design E400 and the additional rear overhang was pronounced.
Even with ferry lift the euro V classic E400 only had millimetres to spare on certain tides, so in this case I don’t think a euro VI is going to be Torpoint ferry compatible Even with ferry lift
Agreed but surely they should have figured this out before now...oh wait its TfC!
I figured it out in seconds as soon as Goldfish mentioned the additional overhang, having seen how tight the old ones are. Surely they could have even managed that
I'll get into trouble if I voice my initial satirical response so I'll defer to others here.I seen the man doing one at Chiverton... he didn’t have a ladder. He was pushing it up with his finger tips
St Erth does have toilets? Haven't been that far west for a while but most of GWRs stations have hand sanitisers at them now. Anyway, we digress
I believe they're still open, they were refurbished relatively recentlyI thought St Erth had toilets? This photo seems to indicate that there are....or are they closed?
Toilets and cafe were open last week. The lady who wrote into the Cornishman was on BBC Politics South West this morning at 10am as she had recorded her A1+A17 journey. Interestingly the A17 is 10p more than the peak train fare. She gets a return on the A1 so she must get the 1740 TfC A1 back. One question is that she gets the 0759 A1 which arrives at 0841 (on schooldays) and therefore would miss the old 0837 anyway. Therefore the whole Devon and Cornwall Railcard issues doesn't apply to her, except during school holidays. Also the expert they had to back her up was a lecturer at Falmouth who clearly knew nothing, despite her research, but she did claim that TfC have reduced travel prices for travellers. All in all, a very real problem for some but, as is often the case, the person complaining didn't appear to be showing the evidence to back up her story.
At least the issue is getting some media attention, though, which is welcome, given the huge amounts of public money already ploughed in to TfC before the whole issue of the 'missing' money supposedly allocated to reducing fares is addressed. We must never expect journalists (with a few notable exceptions) to get their heads around public transport issues, especially bus ones, as they have no personal experience or interest other than in London and one or two other cities. By the way, theoretical availability of public toilets doesn't always mean they are available when you most need them: I speak as somebody who depends on the facilities being in use as a prerequisite to any attempt to continue independent living.
A chap on pcb/tfc entusiast page has said the new buses dont have ferry lift facility and were scraping the bumper. I am not sure if this is personal knowledge or guessing. If it is factual then it makes me wonder about the rest of the spec for the bus. When pcb/tfc advertised the new buses that were coming to Cornwall they were to be all singing and dancing with USB and wifi. Cant remember if climate controlled was mentioned or not. I would be interested to see if anything they promised about the new buses is true !! If it is then great. If not then ????
WiFi and USB charging are the most basic of features so surely these "high spec" buses will be better than that. I wouldn't expect next stop audio/visual as a minimum.
The 50 barely needs more than a minibus bar school kids. Surely a decker is overklll?
Isn’t Next stop audio and visual is a psvar requirement Since 2017 ish?
No, the Bus Services Act merely gave powers to introduce regulations in this respect.
Why the heck would you want to put a new decker on the 50 ?? 93 makes sence but on a 50 and you might aswell get the gaffer tape ready!!
