Recent content by WillPS

Terrible news :( I really hope something is salvaged.

She asked me what stop I had travelled from, and I told them the correct answer (a bus stop in Carlton). She said she had seen me get off the tram, and I asserted I hadn't. She said the Police Officer signalled that he had seen me disembark. I told her he was also wrong in that case. She then...

Sorry for the diversion, but I was once stopped and asked for my ticket while walking adjacent to the NTU tram stop. I was walking from town to meet my friend who was stopping at the Premier Inn. When I told her I didn't have one she signalled a policeman to come over. Ridiculously heavy...

As well as the valid point above, a tender and sales process takes significantly longer than sending vehicles to scrap - and might end with the same result. Time is money.

They could do that already. In fact, they already have done this fairly regularly dating back to Central Trains days, one RPO either end. I presume the problem they have is people can just say they're using the right of way but then take the wrong exit... you'd have to be pretty brazen but I...

Thank you very much. Departmental makes sense!

I spotted a Class 153 at the far end of Platform 6b in Nottingham on Thurs eve, around 6pm. Unfortunately it pulled away toward Eastcroft before I could get a proper look. Any idea who's it was and what it was doing there?

Slightly niche question - does anyone know which vehicles are planned for the 'rail replacement buses' for the upcoming 'reunified' anniversary gala?

The 'soiling' offense could presumably be avoided by removing one's shoes before putting feet up? Whether that's more or less antisocial depends how pongy the offender's feet are I suppose.

Is it perhaps the age old issue of XC Voyagers being used more intensively than their cousins (too intensively perhaps) and also not getting to Central Rivers enough?

Presumably Sherwood depot (ex-NCT).

It would be a PCI Compliance nightmare to do the former.

Non-contrast doors are crew only. Contrasting doors are for passenger (and any other) use. On XC Voyagers the door at the far end with First Class is (in theory) available for passenger use, but on Meridians it leads directly to the kitchen/prep area. The red door is what all the Meridian...

The Meridians have a different fabric/moquette to what EMT installed on everything else. It's more smooth and less carpety than what everything else got.

I recall in the days of Meridian introduction there was a lot of hoo-har about how units weren't as flexible, and unlike an HST couldn't be easily remarshalled to change formations and lengths. Then East Midlands Trains changed them all, first dropping the 9s to 8s and boosting their 4 car...