Recent content by Sweetjesus

I have concessionary pass and I also drive. I find myself taking a bus more often but since after the pandemic, some of my bus journeys converted to car. This is because bus frequencies have declined and direct routes have been cut. Regarding to undesirables using the buses, the one only...

I was at Euston on 15th December and my experience on that day as a Deaf person was downright horrible. I arrived at Euston approximately 8:30pm and stayed there all the way up to 10:15pm or so when i left for Birmingham. My experience included: 1. The main displays showing no trains. When I...

Ah it has changed. Originally, it said the train was cancelled with cancellation code of ZX (or Z something). This was the case until my previous post - this was after we set off from Preston and it said it was still cancelled. I'm guessing RT does support partial journeries, someone somewhere...

Some train companies (especially Avanti) tend to terminate their service early and/or begin their service later mid journey rather than at the beginning. A good example of this, is https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:L33797/2023-11-30/detailed#allox_id=0 It should have started at...

I took an Avanti to Birmingham from Euston yesterday (13:40) - it was a 9 coach pendo sitting at the front end of platform 1. Platform 1 already had a 5 coach voyager in it. Never seen this before and I wouldn't have believed it'd fit until I had seen it yesterday. I wonder if it can also fit...

In a totally fantasy scenario where there is now a 4 tracking between Ordsall and Picc, won't there be still capacity issues for some trains crossing the Picc throat from Ordsall to go to Stockport?

This would be a good intermediate solution if they do eventually decide to segregate the line into two, as well as a bonus benefit of making it clearer that Charing Cross trains don't go beyond Kensington to Morden except during rush hour which can be indicated clearly as a dotted line on the...

In Canary Wharf, there are three stations bearing the same name "Canary Wharf" for aforementioned lines - Jubilee line stops to the south, DLR line in the middle and Elizabeth line to the north. TfL map does show them as separate stations but an average reader will miss the small distinction -...

My final destination wasn't Crewe though. Once I get to home, I will work out what time I would have gotten to the destination had I caught an on time train after 19:40 The issue with minimising the delay is that they give you no opportunity to minimise the delay. At the Euston, all the trains...

So, I'm currently on 19:40 from Euston to Crewe. I got at the station after this train's scheduled departure but only a few minutes after though. As of 20:40, this train has just left the station. Am I eligible for delay repay?

So, if the underground stations is a significant factor of the cost in tunneling. If we want the bypass/spur is removed in its entirely and HS2 needs to go into Birmingham from the south and leave Birmingham to the north, I think it's possible that... .. the current Curzon Street station could...

Would it have been cheaper to build Birmingham HS2 station as a through station and remove the spur in its entirely?

I was under the assumption that level crossings relied on track circuits to determine whether train is coming or not rather than signal.

With Curzon Street coming soon, it would be nice if an underground pedestrian tunnel is built connecting New Street with Moor St/Curzon St. I'm not sure whether the underground structures under Bullring gets in the way or not. The existing route is not really nice to walk, involves crossing 2...

I think they come in and out in waves. I have been a regular user of Lizzy line and sometimes I see beggars to come all at once within a week or two and then they disappear for a while only to come back again a few months later. One tactic I noticed was that beggars tend to get on a westbound...