NORMAN471
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- Joined
- 4 Sep 2013
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- 176
Is it likely that the current range of Northern Rovers and Rangers will continue to be available after the new Northern and Transpennine Franchises take over from Northern and FTPE in 2016?
Now would be a good time to make some improvements to the validity of the routes and boundaries should the new TOCs continue to offer them for sale. It would also be useful if the current TOCs such as Grand Central and Hull Trains were included in those.
I'd like to see rail map changes such as the removal of Carlisle to Dumfries and to Lockerbie and replaced with Warrington Bank Quay to Crewe, Crewe to Chester and Crewe to Manchester for the Freedom of the North West Rover tickets.
There used to be an area 22 rover ticket back in the 1980s which had better options for overlapping two rovers/rangers which was more suited to having the name North West in its description and I would like to see that or something similar introduced to the current range of rover tickets.
Does anyone have any other ideas for Rover and Ranger changes that would make better use of the rail services offered by the TOCs serving particular geographic area across the UK?
Now would be a good time to make some improvements to the validity of the routes and boundaries should the new TOCs continue to offer them for sale. It would also be useful if the current TOCs such as Grand Central and Hull Trains were included in those.
I'd like to see rail map changes such as the removal of Carlisle to Dumfries and to Lockerbie and replaced with Warrington Bank Quay to Crewe, Crewe to Chester and Crewe to Manchester for the Freedom of the North West Rover tickets.
There used to be an area 22 rover ticket back in the 1980s which had better options for overlapping two rovers/rangers which was more suited to having the name North West in its description and I would like to see that or something similar introduced to the current range of rover tickets.
Does anyone have any other ideas for Rover and Ranger changes that would make better use of the rail services offered by the TOCs serving particular geographic area across the UK?