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    Accessible toilet in light rail vehicles

    Cheers! Will keep an eye out for these breaking cover in the next year or so. Many thanks again, Slip
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    Accessible toilet in light rail vehicles

    So they do! Thank you!!! Much appreciated, Slip
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    Accessible toilet in light rail vehicles

    Posting here rather than in light rail as I suspect this definitely fits in with international, rather than UK experience! Has anyone any experience of any operators anywhere attempting to fit an accessible toilet within the confines of a tram-train vehicle? I've had a scout about, and note...
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    TPE Mk5/68 sets.

    In which case First would have submitted a less competitive bid in terms of the revenue line, and we'd possibly be looking at Stagecoach or Keolis/Go ahead liveried 68s going into store instead. Blame the game, not the players.
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    Ardwick Station

    I did, apologies!
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    Ardwick Station

    Doubt it. As much as Andy Burnham and TfGM might want to pretend they can somehow make Manchester's rail capacity problems evaporate by painting everything yellow, calling at Ardwick will almost certainly mean dropping a call somewhere else more useful (i.e. Ashburys) (edited to remove double...
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    TfW ‘Active Travel’ Class 153s

    A calculation that is only relevant if cyclists are likely to crowd off other users at a ratio of 3 to 1. This seems unlikely given this effective doubling of on-train capacity. The working theory is that provision of suitable facilities for cyclists (as well as being usable by other pax) will...
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    Double track line rationalisation cost/benefits

    Touche! To clear up any semantics, I was thinking bare minimum to allow services to cross. This is pretty much the exam question I was (poorly) getting at - at very broadly what point does the cost of additional expensive turnouts and signalling outweigh the savings in plain line? Is there a...
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    Double track line rationalisation cost/benefits

    Evening all! Theoretical question, assume we have a 100km double track railway that is running well below it's operational capacity in terms of services. Assuming costs of making any changes are zero and paid for by a 3rd party, at what level of service does conversion to single line with...
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    Greater Manchester has "ambitions" for devolution of some local rail services from 2025

    Well over 20 posts on the subject of fares variability in a relatively small urban area - symptomatic of the mess things are in. Hopefully TfGM will consider this issue as an absolute priority in any discussions they are having before they start splashing yellow paint everywhere.
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    Greater Manchester has "ambitions" for devolution of some local rail services from 2025

    Care to elaborate? I'm not immediately aware of any negative impacts on Salford?
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    How could devolution of Greater Manchester rail services be carried out?

    There's a fleet replacement programme being worked up by Northern which includes the replacement of 150s. However it is unlikely that GM would be able to get the statutory or funding structures in place prior to decisions being made on this front. More likely given the complexity of unravelling...
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    Greater Manchester has "ambitions" for devolution of some local rail services from 2025

    Andy Burnham has had quite vocal aspirations towards what Steve Rotherham has got up the road for a while now (at least in terms of the Wirral/Northern lines). The problem, as has been pointed out myriad times is that Greater Manchester's local internal rail network is not in any way...
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    Potential Metrolink cuts?

    As someone who uses the tram semi-regularly, I wouldn't consider it that bad. I do wonder if its reputation precedes it thanks to our tabloid local rag who tend to focus on the latest Metrolink horror show when there aren't enough gangsters and celebrity island stories to go round. Anyway, I...
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    Class 390 vs "other" Pendolinos - why the lower rated traction motors?

    Fantastic, thank you both. With best regards, Slip
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    Class 390 vs "other" Pendolinos - why the lower rated traction motors?

    Something that has puzzled me having ridden on a couple of examples of similar generation Pendolinos in Europe (Alfa Pendular on CP, 310s in Slovenia) is why the traction motors on a 390 are rated at 425kw vs 500kw on Continental European examples? I'm assuming that this is related to loading...
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    Passengers denied boarding at Blackpool North?

    1938 Excursion platforms concourse, as per comment by @bramling. You can see it on the right hand side in this 1972 view of Blackpool North (as was): https://www.flickr.com/photos/14581588@N05/5800092360 Some further excellent images showing context here...
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    Passengers denied boarding at Blackpool North?

    I wouldn't personally consider 5 coaches a day "regular" (although I've no idea what the service was like pre-Covid). Certainly not in comparison to the 30-odd direct rail services each weekday.
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    Passengers denied boarding at Blackpool North?

    Not been a regular coach to Manchester for many a year

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