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Likewise you saying you like them.... I agree that the leather seats are great on shorter trips. But longer ones where you're trying to sleep, they often get sweaty and sticky as leather (or pleather) doesn't breathe. There's also leather and leather - the seats BA use are far superior to the...

Having grown up along this route, and with my parents still living down there, it so frustrating. The number of times I've sat in Tisbury car park waiting to collect a relative off the westbound train, which has been sitting in the loop, waiting for an up service to arrive from Yeovil/Exeter...

They *look* smart, but leather is not comfortable on long-haul. There's a reason that BA are sticking with cloth on the long-haul fleet. We tend to fly BA on our trips to the US (mostly Chicago, so it's BA, AA, or United) and their Premium Economy seats with cloth are far more comfortable on a...

I remember stooping to clamber to seats on the upper deck of the METRA Electric in Chicago. We went upstairs for the novelty, the locals were avoiding it. https://www.alamy.com/interior-panorama-of-an-upper-deck-metra-commuter-train-car-between-winnetka-and-chicago-illinois-image241206627.html...

It would basically be like Nissan's e-Power hybrids, many years before. Reduced fuel consumption being the key benefit. Whether such thing could be made to work with '60s technology, is a different matter. Of course the duty cycle of a battery in a hybrid car is very different to that of a...

Gatwick does have some longer flights that aren't offered from elsewhere in the country (see BA's long-haul operations there, for example, or secondary airlines like Nigeria's notoriously misnamed Air Peace), but they don't make up the majority of passengers. Most people will be flying somewhere...

I get what you mean, but that's kind of what I was trying to get at! To get those headline low fares, you're flying basic on Ryanair (and I love them for it) I do think though that a lack of seat selection on their site is a bit of a own goal though, something that's easily chargeable for...

Definitely looks like moquette in the images on their website. Having a seat selector will be handy too, avoiding 'window' views of a plastic pillar! How many more operators though are going to make the flat cloth mistake? GWR have switched on their 80x, Northern on their CAF units IIRC, now...

That's great progress! They do look smart, and the MML certainly deserves the improvements.

It looks like the new seat covers are moquette, which would definitely be sensible. I feel that, like with Ryanair, they're a company that you have to accept limitations with. If you fly how Ryanair want you to, it's cheap and can be wonderful (I only met my husband because of a £35 return trip...

Lumo have said themselves that they're not aiming at LNER's passengers, but instead at the people who were previously going to take an easyJet A320 to Edinburgh. Like all these things it depends on costs - if Lumo can offer a cheaper (or comparable) ticket to the airlines, then they're going to...

I'm sure I've heard that too - isn't the ELL the main reason the 378s have the cab design that they do have, rather than one more like the 376s? I've noticed that there are a lot more 710s on the NLL though recently.

Also.... these are renders. We don't actually know what GC will have, unless someone here has been quietly involved in the contracts and spec that's been drawn up! (Or I've missed an announcement somewhere!) Either way - this will remove the last diesel passenger operations from the southern...

That sounds sensible and logical... and with my cynical hat on, that means it won't happen! There's quite a bit of old BR stock still knocking around with no sign of replacement - within GWR, there's the 150s, 158s, and 165/166s, SWR have the 158/159s, and Northern have a hodge-podge of 150s...

This seems like complaining "rich people pay for something, that must be wrong"? Are you also against the owners of a Bentley driving it on the roads, because the rest of us drive Fords or Toyotas? It's no different from any other charter train, just that this one is extra fancy and expensive...

Thanks @Class 466! I'll have to try and catch one next time!

Is the 'new' livery including a stripe down the side? We overlook HS1 and I noticed a 395 with a silver strip below the windowline recently, wasn't sure if my eyes were deceiving me.

IIRC that's so that the train can be split in the tunnel and all passengers get into the 'good' half to get out? So the effective 'standing room' has to be kept clear on normal services to allow the seated passengers from the other end of the train to move in an emergency.

I think using a common purple theme, and including Thameslink fully into the TfL fare structure on the appropriate routings, would be sensible. Especially through the core it should be used more like the Lizzie Line already is. I don't think renaming it would be sensible - people already know...

Pretty much, but my understanding was that the 99 was still somewhat limited on diesel power. I might be very wrong though! I was thinking about getting a 66 level of tractive effort off the wires. I think people have been saying over on the 99 thread that they're unsure if it'll manage that...