Recent content by Shaw S Hunter

That may be true. But trying to bolster support for the idea by including a completely useless and expensive additional provision doesn't help make the case for it.

First consider what sort of items are transported as freight by air. Then consider whether such traffic would represent a worthwhile traffic for transhipment to/from rail. And then see how many airports anywhere in the world have such a provision. The conclusion is inevitable: the idea is a...

Agree 100%. Those who describe 150s as the worst train ever built obviously have no experience of everyday use of 1st generation dmus especially once they had a few years wear on them. I shudder at the memory of travelling on a Cravens 105 doing 70 mph across the fens with every fitting rattling...

This completely ignores the fact that local living costs vary across the EU. Where a minimum wage exists the ability to meet those costs is a major factor in setting its level. The conditions to allow a uniform minimum wage across the EU will almost certainly never happen.

While I certainly can't make such a claim I would point out that back in the day all top level domestic weekend games were played on Saturdays with all European games on Wednesdays. As such the position for Guardiola/City was exactly as was once perfectly normal but when foreign travel was less...

Not so far mentioned and a slightly surprising candidate is the Bristol RE/Northern Counties combination, just 11 all told. One batch of 6: WMA113-5E, YLG716-8F (SHMD 113-118, later SELNEC/GMT 5073-8) and a batch of 5: LHG384-8H (BC&N 84-8, B&P same f/nos). These (5) all passed to independents...

Given the state of opinion polls this report is as much for the attention of the Labour Party as it is for current government decision makers. While on here we regularly slate both HMT and DfT for their apparent attitude to railways after 14 years of Tory led policy it would hardly be surprising...

Given we were discussing genuine HSR it's absolutely a valid comparison.

The mayor was elected with creation of the Bee Network as a central part of his manifesto. If residents are unhappy with the outcome they have the opportunity to vote him out next month. Seems like an unlikely result but politics and elections don't always go as expected...

If we're going to stick to the @GusB guidelines then very much a borderline case as the Mancunian body style was in fact a development of the standard body style developed specifically for Bolton Corporation's PDR1s and built by East Lancs. It does seem as if the continuation of this thread is...

Yet it doesn't stop people flying. And the most widely used aircraft around the world have 3+3 seating. So long as the width available in each seat is adequate there should be no issue about middle seats other than snobbery. So the real issue is whether that adequate width is in fact provided.

Talk of Alexander R-types reminds me that the only examples I saw regularly were those fitted to Dennis Dominators for South Yorkshire PTE. But amongst that substantial fleet were some non-standard vehicles which if not rarities were certainly oddballs. Namely 2311-20(A311-20XAK) which had...

Divide that between 20 with Gardner engines and 10 with Cummins, the latter might just qualify. And those Cummins powered Metrobuses actually had enough oomph to actually justify the 400 service, their normal haunt, being described as the Trans-Lancs Express.

It's more sensible than Aberystwyth-Carmarthen. But as likely to happen as Colne-Skipton or Northallerton-Ripon! Despite being one of the definite Beeching mistakes there are too many breaks in the available formation for it to be possible.

Exactly this. Passenger fans go to Crewe or Manchester Piccadilly while the freight fans are at Acton Bridge or Winwick Jn. Or Clapham Junction vs Wandsworth Road. What's more the unit spotters need nothing more than their phones, with tracking apps being able to confirm what is allocated to...