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How reliable are the 769s now after all these test runs?

All-Yorkshire 1 day and 3 out of 7 days flexi tickets

A York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority including powers for transport was established by order in 2023 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1432/contents/made so if ENCTS concessions were amended by government I'd hope that such powers would allow free travel to/from neighbouring...

People often have to change buses but they may need to use another bus company's service to complete their journeys. Unless an all-operator ticket is available it means a £2 penalty for changing buses and if you only want to travel in one direction that day you then don't have the benefit of a...

Next stage - multi-operator daily and weekly caps, valid on every participating bus operator within a defined metropolitan region, city council, unitary authority or demarcated conurbation (eg Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre council areas, or Harrogate-Knaresborough-Ripon) Politically unpalatable...

It's very difficult for me suggesting ways to improve profitability without adding extra trains, e.g. all-seats only overnight services from Edinburgh and Glasgow to London. Now that CS is nationalised maybe as a way of integration, ScotRail could advertise them as normal services for point to...

According to the CS website, seats can recline up to 10 degrees without impacting other guests https://www.sleeper.scot/seated-coach/#:~:text=Our%20seats%20have%20been%20specially,from%20our%20dedicated%20seated%20menu. Could there be an ability to increase the reclining angle so people can...

Didn't know that so I imagine only a few TfW 150s could be taken over on lease by GWR. I don't know if there are corrosion issues with the 175s, which could mean GWR examine every vehicle and only take on those in the best condition and reform out of a pool of 27 2- and 3-car units, around 10 or...

We don't know yet how bad corrosion issues are on TfW's 150s. Best hope is for GWR to take up as many 158s as can be spared.

The 466s are too valuable to be withdrawn yet because of the need to make up 6- and 10-car formations. Any stored 466s should be returned to service using parts from 465/2s, which could all then be withdrawn (as opposed to being stored for the time being)

Given the state they've got into in, GWR should wait a little bit longer to lease more 150s and 158s once they become available

In the past Scotrail hasn't been afraid to draft in traction for short-term use due to rolling stock shortages. They ran 10 X 365s on Edinburgh-Glasgow/Stirling services during 2018-19 to cover for 385s (source: Wikipedia) It could be a similar scenario again if the 769s are proven to be...

Ticket office staff haven't proactively here sold split tickets, so I worked out things for myself using National Rail's website, saved money on Leeds-Derby day returns as an example, splitting at Sheffield. I suspect those who know the intrancies of splitting will have already known, suspect...

Sounds like a reasonable fit for those duties but we'll need to wait if a 175 is on GWR metals for static training at a depot.

That's what BR did, and I suspect Project Churchward will be subsumed under the rumoured 450-unit replacement tender led by Northern.