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Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire frequency and electrification
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Note it is 5mph on approach. Presumably there will be “A” boards that enable the train to accelerate immediately after the front cab is...
22 Mar 2024
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Is there way of making the Caledonian Sleeper more profitable?
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Ok, given that the beds routinely sell out you can expect typical revenue for a standard coach (6 club, 4 classic) to be in the region...
22 Mar 2024
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Is there way of making the Caledonian Sleeper more profitable?
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compared to 20 beds, this isnt a dramatic increase in capacity! Youd have to sell them at >80% of the price of the beds …
22 Mar 2024
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"HS2 Back on Track" - front page of Sunday Express - private sector plan to build Birmingham to Manchester
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In all my time of building railways, i have never, ever, known a project where a complete redesign saved money.
22 Mar 2024
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ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend
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Great post. We agree, then, that it is the responsibility of evrywone who works for the railway to improve it. I never said that old...
21 Mar 2024
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Strike Day Timetables
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For the first strikes it should be just before the Easter hol.
21 Mar 2024
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Bald Rick
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GWR Waterloo and Euston
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They can, and Waterloo isnt happening
21 Mar 2024
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Bald Rick
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ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend
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Quite.
21 Mar 2024
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SWR to withdraw public access to Guildford Station Footbridge
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Are you suggesting that the extraordinarily remote probability of a similar terrorist attack on those bridges woudl be a valid reason to...
21 Mar 2024
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Bald Rick
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Is there way of making the Caledonian Sleeper more profitable?
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Apologies, not sure how that happened.
21 Mar 2024
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Bald Rick
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ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend
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Having worked in retail myself, and having friends in senior roles at Tesco and (funnily enough) Sainsbury’s distribution, it is...
21 Mar 2024
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Hope Valley Capacity Scheme updates
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We’re in nesting season now, deveg work has to stop.
21 Mar 2024
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DfT appoints Alex Hynes as Director General, Rail Services
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Yes. Alex’s move was reported in the Observer a couple of weeks ago.
21 Mar 2024
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Bald Rick
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Is there way of making the Caledonian Sleeper more profitable?
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I was, because you said: Which led me to assume,not unreasonably, that you were thinking of changing exchanging existing classic...
21 Mar 2024
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Bald Rick
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ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend
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It kind of is, and its in their interests to. It‘s the responsibility of everyone employed by ‘the railway’ to grow it, in the sense...
21 Mar 2024
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