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    Should there be more Liverpool to Scotland services?

    Over the years there have been a number of direct service from Liverpool to Glasgow - seems to be one of the first to get the chop when there is a review. Currently, there's 2 direct services a day from Liverpool to Glasgow. At any other time there's an hourly service from Liverpool to...
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    Northerneers Survey Group

    Started on this, but when it asks for age and salary without an opt out, then it gets binned (or gets answered in the most unrealistic way) Who funds this, is it Northern themselves or is it just some chatbot that's lonely?
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    Ticket Barrier Blues

    Get that a lot with day rangers where they won't work on barriers in Liverpool or Wigan Wallgate but quite happily work in Leeds and Manchester Oxford Road.
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    Rovers and Rangers you’d like to see exist or changed

    I'd like the "Northern Only Day Ranger" to be available without the need to collect the newspaper tokens.
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    TPE Plan for the future

    I got a full house playing "Buzzword Bingo" on that document. Given how much core route duplication they have with XC, I would have thought merging both companies would be an option.
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    Lack of Avanti 1st class availablity

    Will be watching this one. Had the same problem back in June where I tried to get a walk on cheap day single from Glasgow to Preston, but none of the apps or even the TVM in Central would sell it. Strange as like you say 1st class is usually pretty quiet on this leg.
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    Rail line not far from front of house but only two small trains an hour

    Nothing to worry about living on Tennyson. The trains on the South Fylde line are running on continuous welded rail, so no clickity clack type of noise. Service wise, they are running 2 car 150 / 156 or on a posh day 158 - sometimes sets are doubled up at the weekend into 4 car sets. Since...
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    Rail-replacement buses non-existent - Bournemouth-Southampton to-day.

    There aren't. Vehicles have to be DDA compliant where most coach operators don't have a full fleet of DDA compliant vehicles. The way round this is either if the people organising replacement buses turn a blind eye or if they use minibuses instead of coaches. Most PSV buses are DDA compliant...
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    List your 3 most interesting and most boring parts of your local line

    South Fylde Line interesting bits Going past Royal Lytham golf course Going past Blackpool Airport (when it had decent traffic) looking towards Blackpool Tower Going past Blackpool Pleasure Beach Not so interesting bits The slow stretch between Wrea Green and Moss side waiting for the level...
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    New plan to integrate train and bus services across west of Scotland

    Probably because the Scottish government couldn't then blame Westminster if it went belly up.
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    New plan to integrate train and bus services across west of Scotland

    lol, lets get the old Corpie bus back. I'll be interested in reading the proposals and more interested to see how they propose to get them funded.
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    Avanti First class experience.

    Hopefully soon. Travelled 1st last November and December and can only describe the new menu as utter garbage. Even the old British Rail ham butty would be better than this. Even more disappointed that despite boarding at 10:30, the breakfast option wasn't available but I could have "afternoon...
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    How could unsatisfactory branch shuttles be improved?

    Interestingly enough, the business plan for the upgrade for the South Fylde line was published here and one of the things being considered was a low cost electrification option (well, one sentence). I didn't think there was such a thing in the railway world as a "low cost" option!
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    Northern Service Reductions from 4th Jan 2022

    Usually the Windermere branch is top of the list to get services cancelled along with the South Fylde branch. I wonder if someone in Northern HQ forgot about it?
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    [Carto Metro] Glasgow subway detailled track map

    Depot and test track was build on the old Govan Branch. Don't know when the Govan branch closed, but the depot was built from 1977 as part of the Glasgow modernisation.
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    Is Blackpool North over-served?

    Can't see it having any impact. Even when Blackpool were in the Premiership, I can't remember seeing any changes to the service on the South Fylde line from the normal standard Saturday service.
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    Future of the South Fylde line (part 2)

    As someone closed the previous thread down Here Minor update from the local MP:- "Work on our successful Restoring Your Railway bid for the South Fylde line has already begun. The Government backed the scheme, to install a passing loop on the line and double services, and handed us up to...
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    Are tunnel walls the closest object to a train?

    The Linslade single bore after Leighton Buzzard must be up there with one of the closest here
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    Powers of a person at a station

    Ha ha ha, superb.
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    Different rovers being rejected in ticket barriers

    My Lancs Day Ranger was rejected by staff at Wigan North Western with their hand held scanner thing. The VT staff member in question said it wouldn't be valid as Wigan was considered part of Greater Manchester rather than Lancashire. Oddly enough, the gates at Manchester Oxford Road worked...

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