Recent content by EllieAquitrain

Haymarket is also very useful for Edinburgh residents! It's closer to a good chunk of the city and for other parts it's a much, much, much nicer and easier change to your bus home — you don't have to negotiate the crowds on Waverley Steps and Princes Street!

Having grown up in an area of London with poor rail connections, and therefore having used buses there a lot, even after 5 years in Edinburgh I still instinctively gravitate towards a bus waiting behind the stop expecting to be let on, until I catch myself.

Having worked in Barnton for a few weeks last year, I can confirm that you're right. The 43 would stop and pick up multiple passengers at every single stop along Queensferry Road, which was a right slog and took forever. Whereas if there was no 43 due for a long while and I walked to Davidson's...

I.e., the branch probably wouldn't have been built if the ELL was completely new-build, but given that it already exists it's a useful bit of infrastructure to keep around?

Birmingham—Manchester trains via HS2 have been suggested multiple times on this thread but is there capacity for them through Colwich now that phase 2a has been cancelled? I thought there were no spare paths and that therefore all HS2 trains through there would have to substitute existing...

Do we know how much money has been/is being spent on the new departure screens at stops? As is not uncommon, the one at my local stop has frozen at 03:50 (I'm writing this at 09:23!). They're completely useless and I've learned to fully ignore them, whereas the old ones I would at least pay some...

I can think of one example of a dog making a big mess. I saw a youngish couple standing in the main area of Edinburgh Waverley just outside Pret, with a very very cute black Labrador puppy sitting by their feet who proceeded to pee all over the floor! But I've encountered many dogs (and a few...

Would there actually be much operational benefit to this or would it just be an improvement on the paseenger-facing side? (To be clear, I like the idea and a passenger-facing side improvement would be a good thing!)

A couple friends and I rode the last Lothian Buses 41 in Edinburgh recently — the route has been divvied up between the 47 at the northern end through Cramond and the new route 9 on the southern half through Marchmont to King's Buildings.

Train manager tells us our driver was asked to inspect the line and noticed plastic in the northbound overheads.

Something's going on at Fletton. We (1E07, southbound) have been crawling for a good few minutes and there's a 4-train queue northbound.

Southbound trains, at the very least, seem to be now moving past the location of the blockage at Retford!

Amazing :))

Aye, fair enough! Appears the movement is just the group of three trains further behind moving forward to stack up behind the front three...

1300 deadline has now passed; our train manager hasn't been given any further updates. Update: I need to post more because yet again, as soon as I did we started moving!!