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  1. Harpers Tate

    Brightline Florida: Orlando service begins in "Summer 2023"

    https://eu.floridatoday.com/story/news/newswire/2023/04/20/brightline-tickets-orlando-miami-florida-trains-passenger-rail-schedule-cost/70123580007/ and an hourly frequency with stopping and express services, the latter taking just shy of 3 hours.
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    Hypothetical - what would you spend it on?

    At one time recently, Jim Ratcliffe was the UKs richest person, with assets (mostly Ineos shares) worth in excess of £16 billion. I believe James Dyson is worth a similar amount. Suppose £16bn was handed to you with the caveat that you may only spend it on building railway routes for passenger...
  3. Harpers Tate

    South Yorkshire Joint Line - Local MP Wants to reopen for passengers

    https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/view,mp-delighted-at-rail-companys-support-for-campaign-to-reopen-line_37734.htm?cmpredirect Passenger services here went in 1930-odd but the settlements en route have all grown hugely since then and nowadays form substantial dormitory comminities for...
  4. Harpers Tate

    Brightline to Disney World in 2022?

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/brightline-and-disney-reach-deal-to-build-high-speed-rail-station-at-disney-springs/ar-BB1bhssC
  5. Harpers Tate

    Yet another call to re-open Woodhead

    According to the Sheffield Star https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/traffic-and-travel/we-need-go-back-future-call-electrified-train-line-between-manchester-and-sheffield-1354577 My own thoughts on the matter are this: 1: Without substantial civil engineering in Sheffield it can't readily serve...
  6. Harpers Tate

    Northern and Lincoln Christmas Market

    I have just noticed that (for what I believe is the first time) Northern are actually proposing to increase services between Sheffield and Lincoln over the Christmas Market period. Normal Mon-Sat service pattern on this route (outside peak times) consists of - all stations Sheffield <>...
  7. Harpers Tate

    Georgemas Junction: how does it work and could service provision be improved?

    Done as a new thread, as it would be way off topic where the quote originates. I, too, am interested in this - not from a 230 or shuttle perspective, but generally. Unless I misread it, Far North services routinely arrive at Georgemas; reverse to Thurso; reverse there to Wick via Georgemas...
  8. Harpers Tate

    Valid route and Break of Jouney - condundrum?

    For the purposes of this exercise, let us suppose that the ticket held is a straightforward "any permitted" return with no break of journey restrictions, from A to D, and not operator specific. The normal daily, daytime service pattern has through services between A and D via B. Thus...
  9. Harpers Tate

    Orlando's SunRail southern extension - opening soon!

    Orlando's SunRail southern extension - opening soon! Existing services operate at increased frequency from 23 June in preparation for the full opening to the public of the southern extension to Kissimmee and Poinciana a week later. Still only a Monday-Friday service, though. See...
  10. Harpers Tate

    "Bad Train Day" at Sheffield

    It appears a freight train is on the ground somewhere near Nunnery and nothing is able to arrive at or leave Sheffield to the north. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/162853.aspx And so we have buses doing things that trains are supposed to do - unavoidable obviously for much...
  11. Harpers Tate

    Three bikes Edinburgh > Glasgow

    Scotrail have a small groups offer - 3 for 2 advertised (although at present, it's not showing up on NR or Scotrail's booking engines - but can we leave that aside for the moment....) Three of us need to travel Edinburgh > Glasgow Queen Street, with bikes. The exact train isn't important -...
  12. Harpers Tate

    VTEC Website security

    I had to chuckle to myself. Yesterday, I changed my EMail address on the VTEC website. Today I received this EMail twice Why the chuckle? Both instances of this EMail were received by the NEW address. In other words, if this had in fact been the result of some fraudulent activity by a...
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    Clarifying Any Permitted Route

    I don't want to be specific about the wheres involved as this is a question of principles rather than specifics.. So it's just letters for place names. Imagine a triangle with Z at the top, G in the right bottom corner; S in the left bottom corner, and A midway along the bottom edge. You...
  14. Harpers Tate

    First Northern - do they know something we don't?

    I was just checking off my credit card statement and I spotted that the transaction at the (as far as I know) Northern operated ticket office at my nearby staffed station is described as "First {name of the station}".
  15. Harpers Tate

    An unusual place to "park" a 222

    Yesterday at around 1230 I spotted an East Midlands meridian unit seemingly stationary on the eastbound running line just past Woodhouse Junction (Sth Yorks) on the line towards Worksop/Retford. There is no EMT service normally expected via this route, and even if the usual route south of...
  16. Harpers Tate

    Train collides with car on crossing - video

    http://www.clickorlando.com/news/orlando-fire-department-crash-involving-sunrail-train-vehicle-reported/26697570 http://www.clickorlando.com/news/sunrail-crash-video-released/26837556 The rail line here is not a new feature. The route was regularly used several times daily by huge...
  17. Harpers Tate

    East Midlands Round Robin

    http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/pr5f41fce01a4514a20671e36b5182d4.aspx Anybody know for sure (or know where to find out) if still available and if so, how much (with Railcard preferably). I could only find this via Google http://www.northernrail.org/northernrailcup/news/6177 which...
  18. Harpers Tate

    Oyster Peak Travel & Cap

    Suppose that, using an Oyster Card, I start out at Heathrow (zone 6) during the morning peak and make one single journey to zone 1. Suppose that later, I do various - let's say MANY - other journeys in all zones all of which take place after the morning peak the same day. Suppose my Oyster...
  19. Harpers Tate

    Musings on the TPE "Cleethorpes Flyer"

    With only one more day of operation still to come, I decided to sample Transpennine Express's Saturday only through service from Sheffield to Cleethorpes via Retford. I live near one of the intermediate stations and have travelled the route before on Northern's Saturday parliamentary. As all...
  20. Harpers Tate

    Trent Barton - excellent "customer" service

    "Customer" in quotes because, in fact, I wasn't a customer at all. On Friday, I travelled into Nottingham using a Stagecoach service, and had bought a Stagecoach-only "Explorer" ticket to cover my round trip (four buses in total). When I got back to the Victoria Bus Station and approached...

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