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It would also make long rural routes even more dependent on external subsidies as the resultant fare increases would drive away a lot of existing users.

Correct. The other batch of 7900e's is with Stagecoach in Ayrshire, also with the "OppCharge" facility. Nothing wrong with opportunity charging other than batteries continually being topped up are likely to have shorter lives than those charged just once a day. Doubtless this is a technology...

Pretty sure Rovers cannot be excesses in this way. So strictly speaking correct action would be to sell an Anytime Single. OP was lucky.

Inter seemed to expect a Serie A style game and couldn't cope with PSG's high press so kept turning over possession. I watched the last 15 minutes with the sound muted because I got sick of Ferdinand and McCoist falling over each other trying to come up with yet more superlatives. Those two act...

Not quite. The Harrogate vehicles are 7900e's, the model from which the BZL was developed. And in this particular field are very much yesterday's technology with a disappointing level of reliability nowadays.

@8J's useful post contains two words that possibly get to the heart of the issue: "security contractors". I have no doubt these people were "following orders" and were not going to vary from them in any way for anyone. Now for one-off events like this I can understand NWR bringing in outside...

Very much the archetypal game of two halves. Very satisfying! KTBFFH.

Chorlton Street Coach Station, Manchester. And once upon time a small number of limited stop bus services operated from there.

Absolutely. Given that trains were leaving almost empty while thousands were being held outside the station Monday represents a huge failure on the part of station management. The station concourse and platforms would be busier on a normal weekday than they were for much of Monday evening. It...

Accurately gauging the size of a really large non-ticketed crowd is always difficult! Nevertheless I am not aware of any of those previous events leading to passengers being prevented from entering Lime Street station while trains were departing near empty. Quite the opposite in fact.

Yes, on multiple occasions. Giant marionettes in 2008, 2012, 2014 & 2018. Tall Ships, also 2008, with a return visit inevitable at some point. Various Cunard related events. Liverpool is absolutely no stranger to such large scale events. I suspect part of the problem this time was an attitude...

As an outsider this discussion prompted me to look at what happens elsewhere so I tried to find out about education in Switzerland. Needless to say it's a complicated issue! What stood out however is that for successful bilingualism to be achieved it requires a degree of immersion. In parts of...

The recent tv series Martin Clunes' Islands of the Atlantic included a drive through one of these and featured the world's only undersea roundabout. Different coloured lighting is fitted to highlight the three different directions in case drivers become disorientated though of course Clunes...

As opposed to the even heavier loco at the other end?!

Abysmal match. So little quality on show. Postecoglou has saved his job for now though Amorim is probably safe for a while anyway. One minor plus point: McCoist was less hysterical than usual, thankfully he's not doing the Conference final next week.