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Evening, Despite searching I can’t find any current Saturday diagrams for ScotRail Inter7City sets. Please can anyone post or point me in the right location? Thanks in anticipation

The reason that Airport teams are going 1CC is because at the moment the only services which run between St. Peter’s Square and Market Street/Shudehill are the Altrincham-Bury services which run every 12 minutes 07:00-20:00 Monday to Saturday with no Sunday service. St. Peter’s Square to...

Thanks Baz.

Thanks. Anyone work for Midland Metro/Croydon etc who can comment please?

At Sale there isn’t a 10 MPH speed limit on the platform for fear that the tram will hit the platform, so your comparison is flawed. Indeed nowhere else on the Metrolink Network is there a restriction because the vehicle might hit the platform if approached at line speed which suggests that it’s...

The trams don’t ‘sway’ by themselves. There is more clearance between the platform and the vehicle at Altrincham than at any other location on the network. The swaying is caused by poor track maintenance by Network Rail. As an example the points are cracked on the approach and need welding...

Yes trams can pull up to the end of both platforms. There is a 10 mph TSR. The condition of all of the track is appalling. Network Rail don’t repair the track at all...

I understand that the decision to run Alt-Picc is due to vehicle allocation issues. When P2 at Altrincham is brought into regular use there is an extra set going in on Bury-Alt to improve timetable resilience. There are currently 10 sets on Alt-Bury which usually run as doubles so 20 vehicles...

Hi all. I’m doing a research project and am trying to establish current pay grades for driving roles across the light rail / metro rail industry and sourcing some information is proving difficult. If anyone with any knowledge of the following could post or PM me with details of drivers...

I understand that the connection will now not be severed. A Sleeper has been chained to the rail a few metres before the boundary gate. The ELR yard is rarely used by Metrolink but they have used it to collect ballast using the Metrolink Multi Purpose Vehicle. ELR have in the past operated...

Which is the most ridiculous through rail journey in the country? I'd propose as a starter Scunthorpe to Lincoln. The two places are about 25 miles apart as the crow flies. The direct train takes 2h45m and travels on a route for which the ticket wouldn't be valid be it not for the through...

It can. On Metrolink Collyhurst tunnel now operates Line of Sight and Heaton Park Tunnel will be converted from block signalling to LoS by the summer. They have variable speed limits operated by axle counters so if a tram is in the tunnel the speed limit is reduced. The biggest obstacle to...

It may be the only such station in the UK but it is by no means such outside the UK. You may wish to have a look at Bayerisch Eisenstein/Železná Ruda-Alžbětín Railway station which is on the border of DE/CZ. It's very interesting if you like border anomalies!

It's not pedantic, it's an absolutely critical difference. 35mg is 3500μg - 1000 times more. The legal prescribed limits are prescribed under s.38(2)(a)to(c) Transport and Works Act 1992, and are 35μg alcohol/100ml breath, 80mg alcohol/100ml blood and 107mg alcohol/100ml urine. Any limits...

Keep up the good work. Customer power can change the direction of business if they make themselves heard often enough. VTEC's social media feeds prove the matter is not going away.

I think that SaveECRewards is doing a brilliant job. The thing that really winds me right up with Virgin is not particularly that they have scrapped the scheme its self (although it does) but that they are forever crowing on about listening to customers. I was a rewards customer pretty much...

Argh! I'm having flashbacks! Ease is subjective. I was told that I gad awesome scores on the attention test (road signs etc), perfect on the White/grey/black squares reaction and attention, but failed this one. I was gutted!

Are they actually? Last time I was there, it looked about as likely to happen as an Irish Sea tunnel - something which is spoken of in aspirational terms and which is technically feasible but in reality is not likely to happen.

It's Transpennine Express. They are the only TOC that uses class 185's.