Recent content by northernbelle

Looks to me just like Porterbrook's own shades of blue and silver rather than Scotrail.

There must be some level of confidence that something will run this year - WCRC 37676 moved to Fort William this week.

Lack of investment!? You're obviously not living in the same Cornwall as I am!

Not to mention the service would start on 14 Sept - after summer only Newquay/Pembroke trains have finished and presumably freed up an IET or two.

Hallelujah - this is by far the most sensible and reasoned post I've read on this matter. Thank you.

The people saying that there are 2 main issues here are on the money. Both the proliferation of vegetation needs to be dealt with but also a recognition that the HST cab structure is unacceptable by modern standards and needs a pragmatic replacement. Talk of needing to improve HST cab...

Doesn't Chiltern's DVT fleet have gen sets fitted for exactly this? It will be interesting to see how this pans out - the answer is definitely not a 'fait accompli' at this stage - I think the DfT would sooner remove fleets than pay for them to be reallocated. If I were a betting man, I could...

It's dangerous to conclude why this is happening without it being investigated properly. "Funding cutbacks" are an easy and hyperbolic thing to say. The whole of NR has had such funding pressure - are these broken rails appearing across the whole network, or is it a specific pattern on the...

800026 has long since left Eastleigh and is now back in traffic.

It's the first of the 5-car 800/0s to have their vinyl wraps removed in favour of a coat of green paint.

Not really - the service by the time the 483s were withdrawn was utterly, utterly shambolic. As for the hourly service, why is there a need for 2tph on the pier? There is only one ferry an hour to connect with - trains scheduled to arrive at xx40 with ferries departing at xx45.

Indeed. And this issue isn't limited to 80x - there are many, many locations where wheelchair ramps can't be deployed to trains due to platform width and design of rolling stock. Other than rebuilding platforms or increasing the numbers of wheelchair spaces, the solution is having a pragmatic...

It came from wanting a standard DPTS/DPTF design along with only needing wheelchair spaces at one end in order to achieve the ratio of seats/accessible space required by law. That's not to say an additional wheelchair space in the 5-car DPTS vehicles wouldn't be handy. It's not without...

From the outset of the GWR rebrand it was decided that trains would only be repainted when they technically required painting, rather than just for the sake of rebranding. At the same time it was decided that the 'GWR' identity wouldn't appear on blue/pink, which is why you still see some...

Indeed - so no surprise given everything is rooted in cost at the moment. The idea that CAF has been selected as being 'better' than Hitachi is nonsense - have a chat with TPE about that one.