Recent content by 47802

It would seem to me that electrification should be put on the back burner until we see what's happening with NPR after all the line is getting new rolling stock in the medium term anyway, we need to decide between NPR or TPE electrification I'm not sure having both are really justified.

Plus the continuing strikes isn't helping either

But your not going to save a great deal relatively speaking by closing Georgemas to Thurso and Wick, and will probably loose a significant number of customers so you may as well continue to run certainly to Thurso at least and probably both.

Well yes not the only station you are getting this as well, as someone who grow up in the seventies I find this kind of thing as getting ridiculously over the top. I haven't actually been told off by anyone over this as yet but if I was they would get a right mouth full, At the age of 56 I...

Which just confirms to me that the time, effort and money being spent on a 30 year old train which doesn't compare particularly well with a new train is just crazy.

Your obsession with Bi-modes knows no bounds, lets not forget Northern is a cheap and cheerful franchise, other than maybe a Battery EMU for Windermere, likely simpler and cheaper for Northern to take more cascaded DMU's or 195's lets not forget the 769's are really covering for DMU's and the...

So what that doesn't nessesarly warrant the extra expenditure, even with your plan it still takes nearly 4 hours to get to Wick by train, as opposed to 3 hours by Bus and 2.5 hours by Car, for a Town with a population of about 7000. The town nearest to where live has a bigger population, doesn't...

You may think so but in terms of additional cost to benefit it may not be.

No but I'm not proposing it, and as far as I can see its not needed or required

Really so what's the actual cost? I presume you've fully costed out the extra cost of the 158 plus Crew costs etc, against the projected extra revenue it would bring in and the actual extra subsidy required, and that the subsidy would be better spent on this as opposed to something else?

Will they be even needed for Northern? Will Northern's fully expanded timetable be even fully implemented anytime soon?

While clearly the Project is late, although for Northern at least its probably less of an issue now with the current Timetable shambles, unless you work for Wabtec or Porterbrook you are unlikely to have any real idea how this project is progressing, or much evidence for the comment that its...

And how much are you going to increase the subsidy by to achieve this, in an area with a limited population that is already reasonably well catered for by the Bus service. As is frequently the case on here fantasy land economics with a bottomless pit of money.

My friends Tesla could probably just about get there and back without a recharge, but looking at Zap Map there are already chargers around Thurso, Wick, Scabster, John 'o Groats etc plus others out towards and beyond Dounreay, and some intermediate points down the A9 so it shouldn't be a problem...

While they may be not entirely to blame they are far from being blameless that's for sure, but Grayling will not want to put another franchise in DOR unless he has to. For the absolute utter shambles and general incompetence during the 1st week of the new timetable, and the excessive amount of...