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But if your stock is all stuck in the workshop because of mishaps, you should have a good idea as to the minimum cancellations the next day, and some plans of where they are going to be?

Bought an off peak return from Walton-on-the-Naze to Wivenhoe, but should have bought one to Hythe today. Travelling home, I presume that unless I buy a single from Hythe to Wivenhoe, I'm at risk.

One literally drove past me right now, at Wivenhoe, heading for Colchester EDIT And back again

I guess the Clacton line has the advantage of a depot at both ends, plus signalled for quite close headways but not much service off peak

The lack of response to what you ingnore is far more interesting than this response. In any case, I referred to NS Rail in my post, a denial that you receive money from Abellio, even if truthful and not an obfuscation, doesn't get you off the hook. NS Rail is a bigger company than Abellio. It...

Nobody writes like that unless they work for marketing, or are trying to make people suffering from endless train cancellations even more angry. How have you managed to come across information that enables you to claim that you have full knowledge of the situation and that all inferences made...

Um, when you don't have any serviceable trains, the timetables don't work even worse!

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/greater-anglia-rolling-stock-updates.143516/ OK, what is my budget, i.e. how much can NSRail be fined for turning the franchise into a shambles? Are there MK3-based emus off-lease that can easily be put into service? Are there...

I don't think you are addressing the fundamental problem here, which is not the lack of Sunday services. This is only a sympton of a permanent structural problem that will get worse, and endless patching up/cheapo solutions will never cure. The GEML is maxed out during peaks and brittle. What...

Is the lucky recipient of the job allowed to time travel a year back to the past when the future was predicted with remarkable accuracy? https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/greater-anglia-2019-what-could-possibly-go-wrong.174779/

Hmmmmmmmm

On a service collapse at Colchester one night, I was assured that the ferry would always be held for the rail-connecting services. With the padding in the check-in times, that would usually mean keeping the terminal open rather than an actual late ferry departure? I guess the thing to do is make...

I just don't get it. On the one hand we are told that the GEML is one of the busiest, most intensive track punishing operations in the country, so that it becomes one of the most closed-down routes at weekends (and let us not forget hated cramped 2+3 seating despite 12 coach trains because, even...

How can there be a water shortage up north? That is just deranged. Britain doesn't have a water shortage, it has water infrastructure shortage.

Hard to talk about beautiful EMUs without giving some space to 1935 London Transport O/P/Q stock http://1rs84j3vm0ob2asu30vmou8p-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/1938-Q-stock-car.jpg

Zonal systems only work really well for passengers when the fares are too heavily subsidised for anomalies to matter. TfL effectively runs Zone 1 as a punitive zone, cf Paris where the city inside the Peripherique covers an area the equivalent of Zone 2 and 1/2 in London (RER is zoned but not...

Hedingham have been running services in and around Clacton for years, So they were certainly helping the process along a bit. Walton to Clacton is the only route with no coverage by Hedingham, and it is hard to imagine a more clumsy timetable for this than the one that First came up with after...

MF mornings when the boat train arrived, the Sprinter used to run every 15 minutes. If the aspiration was only ever every 20 minutes, what a stupid waste of money that conversion was. I hope the locals are pointing fingers at local government officials.

The travelators cover the majority of its length, and there is an assistance vehicle available. Passengers will only be in a hurry going downhill, to get through passport control quickly and catch the metro. Hopefully they will fix the frequencies soon, currently worse than the NS Sprinter it...

Won't be sad to see First go, 26 years of their designed-to-fail timetables between Colchester and Wivenhoe would make anyone cynical about public transport. Now that I live on the coast, it will be good not to have to do business with them.