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Keep complaining about the inadequacies about this seating. Eventually something will be done.
Its totally unacceptable that a seat on a national express coach is better
Would probably only need to be 3 trains per day (think it was 5 previously).... caterham and tatt people who need victoria have had direct sevices for many years up until COVID. The workings to LB currently get very heavy... including at purley, purley oaks and south croydon. Purley and purley...
It is intended that Southern is going to increase services in December... but how much is not known right now, but this will need a net increase of units.. but who knows if that is 4 units or 104 units
Personally, i think peak Cat/Tatt to vic peak service urgently need reinstating, as do...
They should be looking to reduce announcements by about 50 Percent. One good example of over top announcements was the old caterham and Tattenham corner service on a Sunday running from London Bridge, which was split at purley, but at every single station you get the full calling pattern all the...
Actually it did all occur in a short space of time. And yes the requirement for loco hauled trains has virtually gone.. but we could easily have passenger train drivers driving sandite, deicer or engineers trains aswell.
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My depot for example did passenger EMUs, DMUs, freight/maintainence, sandite, loco hauled passenger trains until 1994. Now it just signs 1x EMU type and 1x DMU type. So much traction and route knowledge just lost in the blink of an eye. Of course u wont be able to completely reamalgamate...
There was a little bit more on the GB news interview
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https://www.gbnews.com/politics/labour-will-outline-plans-to-nationalise-the-rail-network-in-weeks
I understand many people arent fans of GB news but they were the only tv outlet covering this
I gathered the gist of it was bringing network rail and the TOCs together... similar to the failed GBR plan but a fully nationalised version.
Correct about 1997, although after so much under investment i do thing we needed some kind of private input. 4000 slam door carriages had to be replaced.