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I agree that electric traction is by far the best solution for circumstances like that, but newer DMUs with either six-speed or electric transmissions can pull away from stations very quickly, rather than older DMUs with hydraulic transmissions being used on routes where they spend much of their...

No I don’t believe that electrification will make much of a difference between Todmorden and Preston, as the 195s can reach the current linespeeds with ease. Part of the reason that the Transpennine Route upgrade is as comprehensive as it is was that electrification alone would hardly present...

Electrification will only save you a matter of seconds over a Class 195 at speeds up to 45mph.

Between Portsmouth and Todmorden is certainly very twisty, but between Portsmouth and Burnley Manchester Road the curves are much shallower and that stretch makes up more than half of the route. The Calder Valley route itself is not devoid of very steep gradients, most noticeably the climb from...

What makes you say this? The Calder Valley line has already seen significant improvements to linespeeds without electrification (90 mph for Multiple Units towards Manchester south of Rochdale, 80 mph going the other way), as well as various increases between Hebden Bridge and Bradford...

I’ve said about this on another thread but a Colne to Manchester Victoria service that reverses at Rose Grove would be a great addition to the network and would give an incentive to upgrade the Copy Pit route and maybe the stretch of the Calder Valley line between Todmorden and Rochdale to...

I believe that the server that the old Trisha announcements worked off of was pretty broken. It was riddled with issues such as shouting names of stations beginning with W, whispering “the next station stop is”, not pronouncing Frizinghall correctly and for about a week a few years ago adopted...

It seems that the voice has been changed again on the Televic equipped Class 195s and 331s. I noticed this whilst travelling from Barrow-in-Furness to Lancaster yesterday. I do recognise the male voice, as it was used either for some of the re-recorded station names or for safety announcements...

I’d have thought that’d be more to do with the signalling design, rather than mobile/internet reception, particularly for stations that are in the middle of long block sections where there aren’t any track sensors.

Because with LNER a seat is most likely to be reserved once on the journey as an overwhelming majority of people will be travelling to London. With XC, a seat will be reserved multiple times along the journey, so the booking engine allocates a seat to try and ensure that enough seats are left...

BRouter.de shows that the route from Colne to Manchester Victoria via Todmorden with a reversal at Rose Grove is 58.9 km, whereas via Blackburn is 66.4 km. My general point is that adding such a service strengthens the case to improve the Copy Pit line rather than reopening Skipton to Colne.

I’d have thought it would be more likely to extend the Hull to Halifax service to Preston so that no more paths are required through Leeds. It would also be my preference to transfer the stops at Sowerby Bridge and Mytholmroyd to this service to speed up the Chester to Leeds service, as well as...

Hello, what is working 1Q47 1054 Derby R.T.C.(Network Rail) to Carlisle? Many thanks in advance!

I’m under the impression that most but not all Leeds to Skipton and Ilkley services will be 2x331s, with 333s working the services that are booked to run on the services that use platforms not long enough to fit 2x331s (platform 3B is the obvious case study).

They are on realtime trains, but showing as 'running as required', akin to a freight working. That means they haven't confirmed whether they are running or not, hence they're not showing in booking engines. I'm not sure why any of this is, I was also under the impression that they'd reintroduce...

That electric service was introduced, indeed routed via Wigan instead of via Bolton as a matter of urgency to displace 185s to work the new Liverpool to Newcastle via Manchester Victoria service, with the Manchester Airport to Newcastle service being cut back to York before being re-extended to...

Can it accommodate an increase in linespeed through? 75mph to 90mph I believe is the plan.

Surely reintroducing the Liverpool to Edinburgh service would be the headlining service that can make use of new electrification enabling hundreds of miles of continuous electrification, even better if it’s worked by a brand new 7 or 8 carriage train.

What was the logic in ordering locomotive hauled stock for the Amsterdam to Berlin service instead of dual-voltage ICE 4s? 250 KPH capability would have certainly been useful considering these services now run non-stop from Hanover Hbf to Berlin-Spandau. I can see the logic in ordering stock...

If you were to run an additional West Yorkshire to Edinburgh service it’d be better to have it originate at Manchester or Liverpool, as was the case in the brief time from December 2019 until the start of the pandemic. Hopefully once the Transpennine Route upgrade is complete this service can...