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  1. DarloRich

    ASLEF website suffers cyber attack

    MI5 never had to hack the NUM website ;) This will be about data theft or extortion rather than intelligence - obviously!
  2. DarloRich

    Odd TPE service: 1P09 1844 Manchester Airport to Darlington

    why would you want to avoid Darlington? ;-) thanks! I forgot about that one. Travelled on it often enough. It is odd that such a journey was taken out of the roster. I assume ECML is "core" knowledge for the depots involved
  3. DarloRich

    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    Correct. insert thumbs up icon!
  4. DarloRich

    Odd TPE service: 1P09 1844 Manchester Airport to Darlington

    Travelling back home this evening I am booked on 1P09 1844 Manchester Airport to Darlington where the train terminates. I assume this will be a 185. Why does this train only run to Darlington? it seems out of course. The 185's seem to go to Saltburn and the 802's to newcastle. Is this a way of...
  5. DarloRich

    Car Transporter trains on WCML

    from seeing the trains pass the cars have same kind of wrappers on that you see on cars onboard a car transporter on the motorway. Some vehicles are carried in semi covered wagons, some are not.
  6. DarloRich

    Thames-Clyde Express in the 1970's

    thanks - apologies - I meant market Market Harborough! The Wellingborough line went in the 1960's I think
  7. DarloRich

    Thames-Clyde Express in the 1970's

    running via the line from Northampton to Wellingborough or straight up the WCML?
  8. DarloRich

    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    of course - you only have to see the comment trail on any social media post made by Khan. Much of that seems to be bots or Yanks but there many home grown simpletons who lap this stuff up. What is it about a brown man winning elections they are scared about?
  9. DarloRich

    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    thanks! I assume this is to try and put local people on local trains ( Royston Vasey Rail!)
  10. DarloRich

    New station: Wixams, Bedfordshire. Planning approved

    yes - more than adequality. Users will, obviously, come by train but many ( perhaps most) will come by road. The site is very close to good road links and motorways and train ticket costs mean driving will be more realistic for many people. Where do you get this kind of figure from? 1711470369...
  11. DarloRich

    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Some of the recent stuff pumped out by the Tories on Starmer and his legal work and Khan as London Mayor has been desperate. Really quite poor.
  12. DarloRich

    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    you paid more attention than me - serves me right! - i thought i had read XC were removing Westgate totally.
  13. DarloRich

    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    When I did use XC I got off at Wakefield Westgate. is the future plan that XC trains will run non stop through that station? I assume they aren't going by a new route between Sheffield and Leeds!
  14. DarloRich

    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    i couldn't find another source to quite from!
  15. DarloRich

    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    as i say: the avanti ones are better than the XC ones and can be tolerable if quiet. The XC ones aren't tolerable.
  16. DarloRich

    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    it could be - but you cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear! ( especially if you don't pay for silk in the first place) Admittedly the Virgin/Avanti Voyagers are nicer than the XC version but they are still voyagers. I have been scarred by too many horrible XC journeys.
  17. DarloRich

    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    Apparently Voyagers are "iconic" - they do deserve some TLC. By yeeting them into the sea. https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2024/03/crosscountry-announces-more-trains-and-major-refurbishment-programme.html apparently the refurbishment will "delight" (High) fare paying customers. Aye. right. (sigh)
  18. DarloRich

    Rail services to be included as part of Bee Network

    Agree - a very sensible post. I wonder if the colour of the rosette is a problem for some commentators. Would they think the same if it was Andy Street in the West Midlands.................
  19. DarloRich

    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    Happened to be at the White Rose yesterday and got the train home from Cottingley - What is the reason for the delay/pause on the new station? Is it, as I have heard, due to plans needing to change to incorporate a terminus for a proposed tram line? The bus interchange at the White Rose and...
  20. DarloRich

    Marston Vale line suspension over - FULL services start running 19/02/24

    Reliability on the line seems patchy. If something goes wrong it seems to wipe out large sections of the service. tallies with my own use. Strangely when the line restarted it was the other way around with 141 being a bit shy!

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