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That thread is now locked. There is a a recent Les Gilpin video on YouTube of unusual visitors to Carlisle which features the 195s reversing there

Shame we will probably never know if TfW factored these costs into their forecast of the financial effects of replacing these units. If, of course, they bothered with such a thing.

Bit of both. I put my car on one at Sheffield for a portion which was shunted onto a York-Newton Abbot train . Similarly at one time the Kensington-West of England service called at Reading to add a portion.

Indeed. It's a pity we cant trust public servants not to waste money. Next thing they'll be moaning they are skint and it's the fault of Margaret Thatcher etc.

Thanks for that. But presumably both being designed/project managed by Network rail?. Is there some carefully worked out rule that decrees which stations justify a canopy over the footbridge or is it just project manager's whim?

Surely both in the same area? And both funded by the TPE upgrade?

All seems very worthwhile. At least he's not mentioning Skipton-Colne

So two stations approx. 5 miles apart, similar usage, 2 new footbridges but one covered and the other uncovered. The logic is?

Seems random as to which do. My local station has an uncovered footbridge and it's a nightmare when there's snow or frost about. Perhaps the default position should be covered.

I believe the Garforth station footbridge replacement is TRU/electrification driven. So I am posting two photos taken yesterday. One shows progress to date building the lift towers, the other is of a poster illustrating the final product complete with OHLE. It would seem there will be no...

It's many years since I did Statistics exams but surely the acceptance of an arithmetic mean ride index is too simplistic? You could achieve a mean average with some wide deviations. Shouldn't there be an absolute limit on deviations? Either the specification is wrong or the vehicles aren't...

It's a shame that the bogies on some of the recently scrapped BR designed EMU'S (eg 365,312) couldn't have been refurbished and put under CAF units. I'm sure Wells Fargo coaches must have ridden better than CAF

Rerouting the bus operation from the city centre to the Interchange added a lot of extra vehicle mileage which was costly. Whilst the new central workshop was a considerable improvement on the old garages that closed, the latter were better situated for serving the routes and hence this led to...

I would argue that the glass enclosed passenger islands kept the passengers dry, without needing the overall roof. The overall roof certainly gave some protection from rain snow and ice to the buses and road surfaces but other bus stations seem to manage without. 1709736380 I would concede that...

On the opening of the Interchange the PTE calculated that it had added over £1million pa to the costs of running the bus services in Bradford. Apart from lumbering the new PTE with this vanity project, the council had made sure it spent the minimum necessary on its bus fleet, i.e. no new...