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One depot is ok for now. The expansion has been by short extensions, and the new Dudley/Brierley Hill line is close to the Wednesbury Depot. If/when the Eastside line is planned beyond Curzon Street and Digbeth through East Birmingham to North Solihull (Chelmsley Wood/Airport/HS2 Interchange)...

Tram stop electronic displays inform that the service is only running between Wolverhampton and Wednesbury, and there are posters also. The extent of the shutdown is severe. I assume access to the Wednesbury depot is very restricted, but couldn't they have removed a few trams for a Birmingham...

The most impressive bus customer service I've seen was on Anglian Buses (pre-Go Ahead takeover and merging with Konectbus) 16 years ago. I was on holiday in Holton, near Halesworth, and boarded the Aldburgh service to do a walk back along the coast. A woman boarding in Holton just after me was...

I assume the answer is that the work for the Wednesbury delta junction restricts access to the tram depot, and that's why there will be no service between Wednesbury and through Birmingham City Centre to Edgbaston Village for more than two weeks. You wonder if a basic temporary service could be...

Interesting thread. I'm puzzled why anyone should feel any nostalgia or affection for 'Badgerline' as a brand. I grew up in Bristol Omnibus territory and thought the Badgerline name, livery and style of application was awful. The badger motif looks more like a platypus than a badger. Not sure...

Yes, the Snow Hill to Wolverhampton line was the easiest metro line to build, as the old Great Western route was there for fairly easy conversion. But it's not a major public transport commuting corridor, passing through post-industrial Black Country towns, not residential commuter suburbs. And...

yes, please move this generally silly thread to speculative-see my earlier post #95 Reopening the 'Little NW', electrifying Skipton-Carnforth..... get real! I don't think even Boris Johnson promised to reverse 'all' Beeching Cuts. Most Beeching cuts were sensible and inevitable, so it would be...

Shouldn't this thread be in 'Speculative Discussion'? Keep 'Infrastructure and Stations' for schemes which are under construction, or at least have approval, funding, and a timescale for implementation.

This article is no better informed and as speculative as other coverage about possible rail investment in the North. The map's interpretation of a new transpennine route doesn't match my reading of the Network North 'report' (polite word for it). The section of that report about Bradford refers...

The other purpose of Plan B was to get gullible local media all over the country (covering lots of red wall and other marginal constituencies) to put out stories about railways reopening in all sorts of unlikely places as if they were done deals and expected to happen. I'm thinking of BBC...

I've thought about this too, a connection from HS2 to the Birmingham-Derby line near Kingsbury. But not as easy as it might look on a map. The line through Tamworth and Burton would need substantial upgrading, German 'ausbaustrecke' style. Wilnecote/Tamworth is too urbanised for four tracking...

Yes, some sort of Stafford by-pass is obviously needed, and not four-tracking through Shugborough which would be very environmentally destructive (National Trust estate, edge of Cannock Chase, local villages). Anti-HS2 campaigners have always said they're not opposed to rail improvements in...

Sure, but rail privatisation has a lot to do with the electrification time lag. British Rail steadily electrified as much as it could afford in a logical order, but privatisation put long term rail investment planning on hold for 20 years. At least Manchester/Liverpool/Blackpool got done and...

If I could challenge some of the cynicism and negativity.... The proposed or suggested electrification schemes are logical extensions to current schemes. When Midland Mainline electrification reaches Sheffield and Transpennine upgrade is done, the short sections from...

I can imagine a new line between the Bradley Wood Junction/Brighouse area and Low Moor on the Bradford-Halifax line. It would have to be almost entirely in tunnel, below Hartshead Moor and Scholes. Curious about the proposed Bradford Station-a souped up Interchange, or a new through station to...

Interesting local detail, I don't travel in Wales as much as I'd like. My idea for Local Transport Boards covering at least two, often more council or borough areas, would create transport organisations which are bigger than the individual councils and would ideally be better resourced...

I agree with the TfW sceptics. Bus networks are best planned and managed locally, in partnership with local operators. In rural Wales school transport is, I imagine, the backbone of bus routes, commissioned by local authorities. Overlapping local authorities with a national commissioner of bus...

Amongst all the tea-leaf gazing about every possible permutation of HS2 sectional cancellation, delay, 'rephasing', priority of this bit or that bit in relation to NPR..... a few points strike me as worth setting out: 1. HS2 phase 1 must be completed not just to Birmingham but to the WCML in...

Last Saturday morning (3rd June) I was driving eastbound on the M25 in Surrey, and saw a Pulhams coach on an Oxford Airline service heading west. It would have been the 10.05 from Gatwick. I was wondering if Oxford Bus Company routinely hire coaches from other operators for Airline, but today's...