Recent content by RailWonderer

While the Euston scrum has been a thing for years now and won't ever change, it's also been talked about to death on these forums over the years. It's obvious Network Rail needs to copy what they do at other stations like Liverpool St and announce platforms 20 mins before. I think though Avanti...

It’s mostly true but not always. The IETs aren’t premium trains, they were built to a cost and have quality issues. early 2000s European Bombardier stock was rock solid.

I agree and Lumo would make money on a sublease in return for a delayed start of their open access service. It's getting very escalated to be talking about criminality and contract law! And if EMR finds 5 spare units from somewhere, no problem in the first place. 1750448841 But settlements can...

It lost some time but lost even more time on the 20:05 out of Paddington back to Newbury. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:P08456/2025-06-17/detailed#allox_id=0 The outbound service was a cancelled 387 from Paddington so it looks like they found a spare Turbo in Reading and ran it...

If EMR tell them they need them another year on the lease and the DfT authorises it (how can they not if the MML would be without trains?) then why would Eversholt say no? The lease for the new 810s wouldn't be jeopardised, they'll be dealyed but they're still arriving. We're not talking about a...

More like they don't have the best expertise of maintaining a 20 year old Bombardier train. Anything Hitachi builds today will be more reliable than older rolling stock once the early teething problems are sorted, which is the same anytime a new fleet is introduced into service. As for...

I purchased on the day at Oslo C to Geilo then Geilo - Myrdal (I had already booked the Flåm railway). You can buy without reservations at the machine on the day but it will be very expensive unless you split tickets and search for each stop on the line to figure out which stop is the cheapest...

I wonder what Ural Locomotives will come up with as a 400kmph train, as they have never made a multiple unit and nothing faster than 75mph. They share some parts with Siemens like traction packages but will probably have to skirt sanctions to build high speed trains with western parts. Being...

I agree about the interior ramps as I used to stumble on them and I've also seen some people bonk their heads on the luggage racks but the emergency door on the window is a non-issue. It makes half of the window frame slightly thicker, and the East of England and the Welsh valleys are hardly...

Automatic car washes scratch and dull the bodywork quite badly, and when some motorists started to realise this they abandoned them.

Companies need incentives to take on these unemployables and train them, for lack of a better word. They need to be encouraged rather than, as you say, beaten and treated as a problem. This applies even to young people and apprentices who are not kept on and trained further and are instead...

I call them a class figuratively because the senior ones all think the same way and have either been to the same schools or been indoctrinated to believe and think the same way afterwards and come up with the same solutions. They 'fail up', and failure is rewarded. They almost become a class at...

But we must always try and improve institutions rather than allow them to continue, because that's when corruption and in baked survivalism festers that refuses any kind of change that threatenes them. If you think class division doesn't exist in thic country, it does - massively. The civil...

It comes down to political philosophy. It's never been a British idea that public transport should be affordable as it is in much of Europe but instead offers 1/3 savings for £30 a year for certain groups of people. The idea is that everybody else should pay their way for what is a faster...

None of it will pass until establishments of leaders, lords, MPs, supreme court judges and civil servants start listening to voters. The British establishment with the Horizon scandal and grooming scandal has a habit of covering everything up to avoid blame, promote agendas, and it's rotten to...