Recent content by Bantamzen

There's tons of room behind the gateline to extend the walkway behind the buffers on P1, and around to where the new platform will be.

If he did win, and decide to hold on forever, he could end up turning the US into a North Korea with his family inheriting the seat of power. Can you imagine his sons taking over.... <shudder> o_O

I guess in time having them not used as homeless shelters might mean they become more attractive to better use, maybe one day as retail units? True, but it will be a lot easier to clean up if that happens. The article I linked does mention that the council will work with homeless charities to...

Being honest, I'd never heard of this until you mentioned it here. I've had a quick nosey at the website and if I'm reading it correctly its limited to Thameslink, with a few exceptions? If so its a starter for ten for sure, but Labour seem to want to make this available nationally, even though...

One other small piece of good news is that the arches on the ramp leading up towards Cheapside and the Midland Hotel are to be gated off: https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/24276708.arches-near-forster-square-rail-station-gated-off/ It seems the work will begin next month and be...

What does seem to be pie in the sky is the best price guarantee. Given that even these forums require experts to wade through the tangled mess of ticket pricing to help build ticketing search engines, what chance will a new government have?

Interestingly in Sheffield the council has banned any aviation advertising (amongst other types) from all council owned assets. So a Mayor from Sheffield wants to be re-elected in part to get DSA re-opened, but their own city won't allow it to be advertised? Ho-hum!! It sounds very much like...

Oh yeah costs can be crazily high, which is why a lot of workers furloughed would not have had full-time childcare in the first place. A lot of furloughed work was lower waged employment, so £14Kpa would not even have been an option for most.

Maybe some did, but only those whose transport costs, childcare were more than 20% of their income. But an awful lot more people did not make a profit and a lot ended up with more and more debt as they struggled to pay mortgages / rent etc. I know there's the perception amongst some that...

Well technically ASLEF have had an offer on the table since 2022, and if at some point a resolution is found this would be backdated to then. So actually what your question should be is did anyone not get a pay rise in 2020 & 2021? To which many could not only answer yes to, but in fact many who...

Given the amount of ongoing disputes in the public sector, any instant resolution is going to be unlikely. An incoming Labour government is going to have a lot on its hands sorting out the economic situation as well as industrial action, and they will probably not be in a position to offer...

Even when all daytime services were 2tph from Forster Square units often spent most of the day stabled there. To offer an alternative to having to change at Leeds for Kings Cross passengers not opting for the trundle around West Yorkshire on Grand Central, as well as potentially freeing up a...

The problem is that increasingly PL teams are putting out what would be on paper their weakest teams (squad players who are rarely seen in the league), only bringing on the high calibre players if things are going wrong with 20 to go. Basically they are starting to treat the FA Cup as just...

Never mind the result, Blackburn's keeper made a blunder for Wednesday's opener, and the third... Well what can you say? He somehow lashes a back pass into his own net. That will be one he will never be allowed to forget..

Northern sometimes stable units in the platforms at Forster Square, so platform space can be at a premium especially when all services hopefully return to 2tph. So an extra platform actually makes a lot of sense as it's a fairly easy solution, and one that also allows the potential for more LNER...