Recent content by josh-j

Shorts aren't really even that "un-smart". They can definitely be part of a uniform (and are at other TOCs) and I doubt many passengers are bothered, I'm certainly not. And since I'm currently sitting in a boiling hot station it's extremely easy to empathise with "Bob"!

I thought the scope of TRU has been increased quite a lot since 2018 though. Generally I think value for money would be much improved by bringing a lot of engineering skill in-house rather than having contractors subcontracting to subcontracting subcontractors - as well as by proper planning...

Try going to https://traksy.uk/pages/sub/ I had the same problem with the original link where it wanted me to login, but going to the one I've posted here worked (got there from the front page of the site) and let me subscribe. Similar to your situation - I had made an account a while ago...

RTT can be incorrect during disruption though, apps and official sites (not RTT) generally will be using Darwin data; I'd have thought even older station screens yse that, and it is supposed to be the primary source of passenger information. The control software might be old but so is Darwin...

If you scaled up the text on the middle and right parts of the big combined sign at Victoria to remove the white space, it would look really strange I think. If you made those sections actually physically smaller to remove the whitespace, it would look cheap and random. I know there are some...

I really like those signs at Victoria, at least from the pictures. You can't just scale things up to remove white space. The writing is presumably sized appropriately, then the space is there on some parts of the the sign because the different parts have different amounts of text. I'm not really...

I can't remember the exact reason these stations' services were switched over to TPE but the plan is for them to go back to Northern later on in the Transpennine Route Upgrade process so it is technically only temporary even though it has been like it is for several years already. Stopping...

At the end of the day, if capacity was increased and spending improved* I'm sure we'd get higher than the old 100%. I can only imagine that any failure to do so is about penny pinching resulting from inability to understand that investment in public services is good and pays for itself...

Thank you! I forgot about the three tracking.

Remodelling four stations - I know Mossley is being moved and Greenfield reconfigured but I didn't realise the others were being worked on as well? There are only four stations between Stalybridge and Huddersfield! Nice to see things gradually progressing.

The App Store page says the latest version requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. Do you definitely have that version or newer? If so then yes NR to sort it out. Mind you if you have an older version, for a public service really NR should support older versions better rather than deciding not to bother..?

Possibly the new app is not supported on your iPad (or should I say, the new app may not support your model of iPad) so you're still on an older version which can't update? There are screenshots of the new-style app for iPad on the App Store website (I don't have an iPad myself to confim)

The plans had already been drawn up and were ready to go. It is actually possible to do things, engineers know their stuff! :smile: The problem was politics, not practicalities. Which means it would be perfectly possible to resurrect the plans and build the platforms given a bit of vision and...

In fairness to Network Rail, the chord only became a fiasco because the government of the time ripped out all the other parts of the plan that made it workable - after construction on the chord had already started.

Doesn't look like anything can get to the airport (Manchester) or through East Didsbury, Gatley etc. at the moment. And for TPE, looks like the route through Standedge is flooded.