Recent content by Snex

Not as long as others but, the ALX100 Vario's at Arriva Northumbria were built in 1998 but weren't first registered until Dec 2000/Jan 2001. Ironically some of their sisters from Arriva Scotland West turned up later, which were registered when built, even known they were the same age.

Personally, I think the bigger issue is the lack of a decent rail service with competitive fares more so than Metros / Trams. There's so many sizable towns with any real rail service or if it does it's hourly at best, especially in the North East. I don't think most people would mind using the...

Even known there's the cost element, one thing that's ignored here is the security benefits. Some stations, in the evening, are pretty much no go areas. Having them staffed would make a massive difference in them. Obviously doing every station, the likes of Pallion, South Hylton and Ilford Road...

The Chinese actually use a QWERTY keyboard which then converts it into the correct Chinese characters. You'd have a keyboard the size of the ticket hall otherwise as there's thousands of different characters. I believe other languages have the QWERTY keys aswell, assuming for stuff using Latin.

Stupid decision and very difficult to use as someone who knows a keyboard, heck I'm typing this without looking at all - something I definitely couldn't do with a ABC layout. For people talking about different layouts for different languages, this is simple to resolve. Just set the keyboard...

Strikes planned for 1 week each from the 7th April and 21st April.

Yeah totally agreed and it happens all over the place really. Always going to have the problem and I'm not sure what the answer is. --- Mind speaking of some of the debate on here, I wish the Northern was scrapped and split into 3 so you'd have Network Yorkshire Network North East Network...

Guessing they had no choice after the announcement on the Northumberland Line with POP Cards being accepted on there. Good to see, and hopefully we see it in more areas. Other than fares though, is anything actually changing? It seems like it's more of an all London trains being part of Oyster...

Personally, I'd argue that there should be a combined travel authority, that brings all the Yorkshire's together rather than expanding Metro with fares across the whole area. There's so many overlap areas, Barnsley to Leeds or Sheffield, Hull to anywhere etc that it doesn't make sense it all...

I meant more economically rather than rail journeys, sorry wasn't clear. Economically they're very very different places and the purpose of the Mayor isn't just for transport. The whole of the North East should be really together since currently there's places like Newton Aycliffe and...

Not sure I agree with that. Okay there won't be many rail upgrades (there probably isn't many needed anyway) but economically North Yorkshire is very different to both those places you've mentioned bar a few areas. There's very little links between the likes of Northallerton and Teesside, for...

Barton (just north of Scotch Corner) upto Whitemare Pool (end of A194(M)) was a brand new road as much as the M6 is in Lancaster / Cumbria. The old road is the A167 which is quite a bit West so wasn't really an upgrade of the old road.

Bebside on the new Northumberland Line, quite a substantial area with excellent road connections and now the new railway. All the main amenities can be found in Blyth and Cramlington for shopping etc, if needed aswell. If they ever opened the Leamside Line, there could be scope for around...

Imagine most would bus in, the few people I knew heading in did. Be interesting to see if students would be happy to change though as most the stations are a bit out of the way. I'm lucky as there's a station here but if I was using the bus, I'm not sure I could be bothered with the interchange...

Yeah possible to be fair, guess it depends how many students are coming from SE Northumberland. I know I would've used it in the past when I went there.