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I am in a similar situation and have visited Isle of Man with my wife. Someone with a UK visa of any kind can enter Isle of Man as a tourist (and vice versa). The likihood is you won't even be stopped because there are no routine checks. As @WestCoast points out, unless you are a citizen of a...

Yes you could run 30tph of double sets but dumping everyone at St Peter's Square or another city centre location is not a good idea. The status quo handles the passenger demand and means a wide variety of destinations north and south of the corridor can be served. The main thing it needs is...

Won't spare electronic parts and cost be a problem for post BR DMUs? I hope some are perserved but I would be surprised if they become significant like Pacers. According to Wikipedia 46 pacers have been preserved for operational use!

Cities in much of Europe were mostly destroyed in WW2 and it gave an opportunity for better urban planning. They may not have been thinking trams at the time but were thinking wider roads and larger heavy rail gauges. Trams need to find niches between electric buses and trains. We seem to have...

With replacement five years off it is worth doing the C6 overhauls of TfW 150s and sending them to Northern and scrapping the least reliable Northern 150s. When Northern receives new units the TfW 150s could be the last to go for scrap. Few people thought Pacers would be popular with heritage...

The TfW 150s need their C6 overhauls very soon and this is determining when they go off lease. They could have their overhaul, new seat covers and repaint and then be used to send all 155s and the worst Northern 150s for scrap. With the benefit of hindsight the Northern 150s should have been...

22X are unnecessary and too expensive for TfW. They only need 90-100mph units. They have sufficient fleet to meet their planned timetables but they haven't all arrived and entered service yet. 22X are a good option if GC decide the 180s are too unreliable but they don’t need that many. When the...

How can they complain about lack of work for Newton Aycliffe and then be picky about what they will make? Can they do the HS2 train building in Japan or Italy without breaching contract? If not why wouldn't they want any work available for the period between finishing the EMR order and starting...

Commom sense seems to have prevailed! I am favour of 20mph on housing estates but not any road houses alongside.

United Arab Emirates allows British Citizens to use e-gates for second entry and afterwards. No need for entry or exit stamps because its all electronic.

I won't be popular for saying this but the biggest problem for Liverpool Airport isn’t lack of a rail link, its Manchester Airport. Its relatively easy to get to Manchester Airport from most of Liverpool Airport's catchment area and has much more choice.

They haven't managed to win a UK bi mode order though and that is a weakness. The Northern, WMR and TfW DMU orders couldn't have been done alongside Crossrail and they were relatively small. CAF was the right company to win the final DMU orders, they produced a decent product at a small scale...

I was thinking of a public - private development company that redeveloped part of the site in a controlled manner. There are several recent examples of redevelopment of ex industrial areas of Greater Manchester through that kind of partnership. They have helped to severely limit the greenfield...

Earmarking a third of Litchurch Lane for housing would be a start to downsizing. It would facilitate a big local need and make Litchurch Lane a more appropriate size for the market. Newport is very small while Newton Aycliffe and Goole are at best medium sized. There is just about enough demand...

I don't know how this fact keeps getting ignored. The follow on order of 10 units makes sense because any additional Crossrail services require Aventras to avoid the problems of a micro fleet. Why an earth does anyone think Bombardier or Alstom should have been given a major contract at...

Extending all the Paddington terminators to Old Oak Common requires a lot of units. The ten units are the one order that makes sense for the government. The decision to delay HS2 opening to Euston makes more Crossrail units necessary and it should be done while compatible units can be built...

The sad thing is that there are pathetic people who would prefer that situation because it was how things were done in the good old days....

The Telegraph has been forced to pander more and more to core readership as the newspaper market has continued to decline. Unfortunately its core readership are a certain type of pensioner who hates change. All newspapers do it to some extent. In a previous job a colleague was a focus of an...

They probably could but 175s are available now and 158s will be over next couple of years. The best option for off lease 150s will be heritage railways. Sprinters are the last British trains that are simple enough for them to maintain. Put them in a classic late BR livery... If they continue...

There has been work recently elsewhere in Greater Manchester and surrounding areas for platforms to fit 6 x 23m units. The May 2018 timetable disaster showed that the frequency of services on Castlefield corridor cannot go above its current level and Victoria has very constrained capacity too...