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  1. Tetchytyke

    Standing passengers on registered express services

    The legal position is that a bus can carry standees on motorways if it is certified as being allowed to carry standees. Most coaches aren’t certified to carry standees, although the Plaxtons Arriva Northumbria for the 685 had were. Company policy may differ.
  2. Tetchytyke

    FirstGroup awarded London Cable Car contract

    On ridership, no it doesn’t, not even close. But the sponsorship is enough to allow it to make an operating profit, which is used to repay the £60m cost of building the damn thing in the first place. I’d agree that giving it away wouldn’t really work; part of the value of that sponsorship is...
  3. Tetchytyke

    Doncaster Sheffield Airport to reopen?

    It all sounds very Ben Houchen and Teesside Airport to me. If I were a Doncaster ratepayer I’d be asking very pointed questions about who is paying for all of this…
  4. Tetchytyke

    £2 fare - but what next?

    Go North East have long price-gouged in their monopoly areas. When I lived in North Tyneside they charged £3 for a single from Silverlink to Northumberland Park, a distance of about two miles. My preference was always to walk there and get the bus back with my shopping, but at those prices I...
  5. Tetchytyke

    Cross Country overcrowding - shortage of rolling stock

    XC has always done this, with units getting attached at Bristol and detached at Newcastle across the day. The problem comes back to having the staff to do it.
  6. Tetchytyke

    Isle of Man Steam Packet Co

    The Steam Packet have released a few pictures of the refreshed Mannanan passenger areas: https://www.steam-packet.com/blog/?__SPCoWinID=073ab042-2aaa-40a7-8493-c88df7fceef5
  7. Tetchytyke

    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    The bit I’ve bolded is the really relevant bit. As I’ve just added to my previous post, this all feels quite personal to me. The ORR wouldn’t be the first regulator to try and tie a specific company they deem unwelcome up in knots, as it’s often an easier alternative to trying to revoke their...
  8. Tetchytyke

    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    It’s about 25mph, same as on heritage railways where CDL also doesn’t apply. The Jacobite takes roughly two hours to do the 50 miles or so from Fort William to Mallaig. I’ll be honest, I’m not really seeing the difference here. I’d agree that WCRC have been daft if they have spent more on...
  9. Tetchytyke

    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    I have to admit that I find the whole thing utterly bizarre, and I’m sure the previous 20 pages have differing views on this. Here on the Isle of Man the government-run railway has slam-door stock without CDL. The nod to modern safety standards is a sign that reminds people that if they stick...
  10. Tetchytyke

    DfT appoints Alex Hynes as Director General, Rail Services

    From what I am aware of, the ‘toxic positivity’ had an unfortunate habit of turning into ‘robust management’ of anyone who doesn’t share the same view. Which is why industrial relations, particularly in the north west, have been atrocious for many years and far preceding the current pay...
  11. Tetchytyke

    DfT appoints Alex Hynes as Director General, Rail Services

    Another one failing upwards then. Northern still hasn’t recovered from Hynes’ very special sort of management.
  12. Tetchytyke

    Cross Country overcrowding - shortage of rolling stock

    That’s pretty much it. If people are getting what they pay for then they don’t paying for it. The trouble with the railways is the amount of waste and the amount of short-termism. XC is probably the biggest example of this. Small trains cost more to run per seat than bigger trains. Most leisure...
  13. Tetchytyke

    FirstGroup awarded London Cable Car contract

    £8m a year to run the Dangleway. Boris really is the gift that keeps on giving. I bet TfL revenue from the Dangleway won’t even touch the sides of that. ETA: not privatised, like most TfL stuff it has always been run by a private contractor. This seems to just be a change of contractor.
  14. Tetchytyke

    Uno Bus

    I don’t really know the answer but it is not new, the bus has terminated there for many years. I always assumed it was to enable it to serve Burnt Oak Broadway and the Jubilee Line.
  15. Tetchytyke

    £2 fare - but what next?

    For commercial urban stuff there doesn’t need to be much of an exit strategy because fares shouldn’t be higher than £2 (+uplifts for inflation as required). First used to charge £3.80 single from Queensbury to Halifax, a distance of about 3 miles, but their app (when it worked) did offer a flat...
  16. Tetchytyke

    Cortinas, Cavaliers and successors - where did they go?

    I was following a (seemingly) mint condition Ford Orion yesterday and made me think of this thread. It was as near as damn it the same size as my 2013 Ford Fiesta. Goes to show just how much bigger all the cars have got in the last 30 years.
  17. Tetchytyke

    Cross Country overcrowding - shortage of rolling stock

    The trains via Leeds are very busy and always have been. These are the ones from the south west which go through to Edinburgh. The trains via Doncaster, which are the ones from Reading, were generally much quieter north of York as they terminate at Newcastle. So terminating them at York is no...
  18. Tetchytyke

    Is there way of making the Caledonian Sleeper more profitable?

    Yet MegabusGold failed miserably because there weren’t enough people who wanted to pay the premium. The trains are at full length, I believe. So if you were to put couchettes in, you would either have them replacing the seated coach or replacing the cabins. The current proposition is that I...
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    Cross Country overcrowding - shortage of rolling stock

    I’d missed that, I knew it had been pushed back from June 2024 but I thought it was now December 2024. To be honest, terminating those trains at York isn’t so bad, IME they were always relatively quiet north of York anyway. The capacity is really only needed Reading-Birmingham-Sheffield, but...
  20. Tetchytyke

    Cross Country overcrowding - shortage of rolling stock

    XC needs more stock and, even more importantly, more staff. The timetable is still running at Covid levels because XC don’t have the staff to increase the service. That lack of staff is also why you don’t see enough double units out on the network, both double voyagers and double 170s. It...

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