Recent content by Monty

If that's the case you are still looking at 5 figures, taking into crewing costs, unit hire and probably a bit extra to make it worth the trouble.

It cost the Swanage railway the best part of £250k to run the Wareham service last summer, and that's with our own stock and under WCR's safety case. Chances are it's going to be at *least* that.

At the last open forum it was said that 90% of all transactions was card/contactless. The railway may loose a little bit of money short term, but longer term it will probably save money on cash handling.

Been adding some polish at Weymouth Town on my route. :) Not long and hopefully this 3 year project shall be complete. :D

No, it's the SWML between Bournemouth and Weymouth.

Spare vehicles will be kept in storage by Porterbrook as a source of spares. Overspeed testing has been carried out between Eastleigh and Basingstoke.

Most of the SWR inner suburban is set up for 10 rather than 12 coaches.

How long as this forum been around now? it should be abundantly clear to most of you by now that the strategy for rolling stock procurement (and running these post covid management contracts when you think about it) is to deliver a product at the lowest possible cost to charge the consumer at...

Different stock, different route and different equipment. The specifications and requirements for new DOO trains seem to change with each generation of train so what was acceptable on one scheme does not necessarily translate to another. I think it's worth noting everything is built at a set...

I'm not quite sure what the deal is with the cameras but I have been led to believe during testing is that the camera mounts suffer from a high amount of water ingress when it rains and in the cab only the slightest amount of sunlight will render the monitors useless.

Are you having a laugh? If anything the unions on the continent make us look relatively tame. People on this forum have taken wibble, rumour and six month old press releases and came up with their own conclusions, there was no realistic prospect of a 'soft' launch for the reasons I had...

Haha called it.

Might be the case for drivers but still no actual agreement or consensus for guards. No training course has been put together and that has to include some door operations. I just don't see it happening in the next 25 days.