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Arent there already plans to bring the ex mail platforms on the Western side of the station back into use in relation to HS2 [I believe] but as that surely wouldn't involve the North Facing bay platform that could be the answer. [ I understand they're currently deciding whether to just do a...

The West Coast charters that ran on the Lakes line accepted normal tickets

It does seem to work a lot more smoothly than it used to and the staff arent as ignorant as they used to be but there doesn't seem to be as many of them as there were previously.

Aye, but can you see the new price for the single ticket being half of the current cheap day return ticket price because I can't. What I can see is the new price being the CDR price minus the 10p they usually add on meaning that under the new system, your return journey will cost you twice...

Does anybody know why there are no sleeper services for a week at the start of May ?

Yes but it would have been a lot easier to get a RR bus in Sheffield to take the passengers doing the last leg on to Doncaster as First Bus is the main operator in South Yorkshire meaning they're effectively the same company. But it seems rather than do that they'd rather inconvenience dozens...

So the train was fit enough to travel back to Manchester but not fit to continue on to Sheffield ?

Seems it only made it as far as Hazel Grove and then gave out. What happened to the passengers who were travelling to Doncaster ?

Where can you see the details of the extra services ? there doesn't appear to be any overnight services that i can see in the Avanti timetables which is surely one of the companies that should be running these to allow people to arrive in the capital very early.

I don't agree. yes if it was Sunak and he kept dishing out the dosh he would be safe till it stopped but if Truss wins and sticks by what she's said she's going to/not going to she.ll be gone by Christmas. If Labour really wants them out they.ll give their support to a utility bill strike where...

Explain for me then why just calling out the Staff in the ROC.s in an all-out strike and the rest of the union paying them to stay out wouldn't have the same or bigger effect than the current action ? I think that in any number of ways that would bring things to a head a lot quicker than the...

Much as I hate Schapps with a vengeance if you'd watched and listened right to the end he was pulling a very sly clever one knowing what Charlie Stayts reaction would be. Charlie was saying there was only one per hour on the new Avanti temporary timetable and he was agreeing but what Charlie...

I wondered how long it would be before someone pointed that out but in reality, it wouldn't need to work like that If for number's sake you needed 5k guards anyone working on the railway could apply for them which would then create 5k vacancies in all sorts of jobs which those facing...

Yes, and those 8 guards could come from the pool of staff the RMT are claiming will be made redundant. Seems to me there's a very logical chain of movement here to solve the whole dispute RMT agree to changes in the Sunday arrangements [ which I think they know they're going to have to sooner...

Doubt it was actually anything to do with the weather. There have been contractors carrying out major works over the P4 P5 P6 side since Xmas its not hard to see the whole thing is covered in scaffolding.

Oh, come on you only have to look at the Service Disruptions Tab on Northerns Website their are dozens of cancellations across their network every day which they are attributing to a shortage of drivers [ and to a less extent guards ] even a year ago this was virtually unknown outside of the...

Well if nothing is ruled out maybe the RMT should ask how much the franchise subsidy would have been cut by had they not agreed to do the DfT.s dirty work on the removal of guards issue. Along with why the routes on which they plan to introduce it was such a secret that in the franchise...

Well according to Northern staff locally that's no longer the case and hasn't been for a couple of years

1 Yes i agree that proposed schedule is ridiculous but as I understand it they were told to go away and sort it 2 Try the York to Blackpool service which unless something has changed will be served under Connect by refurbished 158.s which i.m not unhappy with but i can see a bigger argument...

And isn't the frequency all but doubling on the Newcastle to Carlisle route. I.m not getting any new trains on my local line either although it will be a connect route it will be operated by refurbished 158.s and 150.s on the peripheral services and i.m quite happy with that and to see the...