Recent content by Blindtraveler

You are I suspect pretty close to the mark

@Bantamzen and I are on a very very similar level where politics in general and the current incarnation of the Labour party in particular are concerned. We should put the world to write sometime if I'm ever passing your way

Great thread for a bit of nostalgia thank you

Both could do with replacement I don't think anyone would deny that, the x99 is a demanding route and I should imagine kills whatever is on it due to its fairly consistently heavy loads and exciting roads

Quick tip for anybody using the Premier Inn Luton airport. I won't go into details as have done so before and it remains a classic airport hotel in every sense, people arriving in departing at all sorts of strange times, usually trapsing down your corridor saying not particularly politically...

For my money I would say that gwr maybe holding on for the Welsh 158 s

Currently on a flying visit to Edinburgh and both on grounds of cost and journey time used this service coming into town from the airport this morning and having purchased a return I'm semi-committed to going back the same way, not the time upset about this as I really enjoyed the much quicker...

I suspect McGill realises they wouldn't win it as they are far from flavor of the month in Edinburgh council's books I shouldn't think

I had forgotten these were the former 900 vehicles, in which case yes I can confirm they were a long way from being factory fresh at the end of their 900 duties goodness knows what reliability must be like both mechanically and in terms of onboard systems etc

EUS is generally one of the better stations in London for assists, but as you say they are a very thinly stretched resource and you just know that if they're going to get it wrong and get it wrong spectacularly it will be when the sleeper arrives early and absolutely nobody's paying any...

Which hopefully will happen soon enough as they must be knackered Wonder if they're going to evaluate which vehicle type performs better out of the three that they've taken recently including the 9700 and order accordingly

Regardless of using them on suitable routes, stagecoach nationally are going to need some heavy investment in coach fleet across multiple locations, I should imagine that virtually everyone other than Oxford tube that operates routes with coaches are crying out for some new vehicles and making...

Likewise and unsurprised that this latest attempt to smarm their way out of it by garnering support from the countless businesses of all shapes sizes and varieties who benefit directly or indirectly from jacobite customers has gone down like a particularly soggy breakfast pancake Tourism...

Will some of these new Mercedes c off the x99 allocated panthers? Probably about time that route had something new again

I I believe that various incarnations of a d l vehicle a tried on some of these routes, the numbers of which I now can't remember prior to these coming and proved not brilliant, prior to that I'm led to understand that the same roots were one of the last anywhere that you could regularly see...