• Our booking engine at tickets.railforums.co.uk (powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

Recent content by physics34

  1. P

    Azuma seating

    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
  2. P

    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    *off peak
  3. P

    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    Yep... and theyd only need to be 4 car
  4. P

    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    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...
  5. P

    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    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...
  6. P

    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    ... also , are you sure about the 466s? I cant imagine SE letting the 2cars go.
  7. P

    Great Northern Fleet Tender

    Thing is Southern need more stock not the same number so i hope the overall number of units going to SE is less that the amount of 387s coming over
  8. P

    Stations rebranded to Great British Railways design / Rail Alphabet 2

    RA2 has appeared at clapham junction... but only 2 signs..
  9. P

    Greater Anglia to install tables on its Stansted Express trains

    Its almost as if railway people should be left to make these decisions not bank managers and MPs. Bad decisions continually on our railway.
  10. P

    So many announcements, so few people taking them on board

    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...
  11. P

    2024 election and party Railway policies

    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. 1706820353 Exactly
  12. P

    2024 election and party Railway policies

    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...
  13. P

    2024 election and party Railway policies

    Youre right it should. Flexibilty is the key amongst Crew, stock, rostering, facilities etc. It is stupidly fragmented.
  14. P

    2024 election and party Railway policies

    There was a little bit more on the GB news interview 1706793670 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
  15. P

    2024 election and party Railway policies

    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.

Top