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Presumably each year the commercial relationship between the operator of this and the operator of the boat cruise has to be really negotiated and I can assume from this that bright will offering something better than Lothian?

I think it's downfall maybe that quite a few routes and services are still functioning in their revised fit for the future state either running less frequently or conveying less carriages or indeed both, people aren't going to flock back to the railway if they are going to swap a coach seat say...

Nothing official as of yet I don't think but as might be expected it has resulted in an upsurge in passengers purely from my own and others observations, which is good if the aim of this is to make the railway more sustainable and usable but bad if they want to continue peddling the message that...

I have a feeling they may be getting wise to all the Haymarket people and will soon impose some kind of ticket restriction on this. There are also multiple problems trying to reserve itineries on flexible tickets from out of London destinations to and from Edinburgh where the core intercity leg...

The same is true of the small little bit of the Southeastern empire that I regularly observe. Meanwhile north of the border my friends teenage daughter who left school at Christmas and is currently doing a five or six times weekly commute to work in a well-known fashion retailer also has noticed...

I think perhaps a little unfair to simply suggest that a poster simply doesn't like someone and write it off from there onwards, the individual above is simply pointing out faults and floors in their stewardship of local government and indeed a not dissimilar situation has existed all be it in a...

I guess that some of the work that might be moved to Derby is mid-life refurbishment and upgrades plus possible Life extension works to other units that they themselves or other company plants have built? There's the cross country voyager mid life at works plus similar no doubt to meridians when...

Is that even compliant?

You are I suspect pretty close to the mark

@Bantamzen and I are on a very very similar level where politics in general and the current incarnation of the Labour party in particular are concerned. We should put the world to write sometime if I'm ever passing your way

Great thread for a bit of nostalgia thank you

Both could do with replacement I don't think anyone would deny that, the x99 is a demanding route and I should imagine kills whatever is on it due to its fairly consistently heavy loads and exciting roads

Quick tip for anybody using the Premier Inn Luton airport. I won't go into details as have done so before and it remains a classic airport hotel in every sense, people arriving in departing at all sorts of strange times, usually trapsing down your corridor saying not particularly politically...

For my money I would say that gwr maybe holding on for the Welsh 158 s

Currently on a flying visit to Edinburgh and both on grounds of cost and journey time used this service coming into town from the airport this morning and having purchased a return I'm semi-committed to going back the same way, not the time upset about this as I really enjoyed the much quicker...

I suspect McGill realises they wouldn't win it as they are far from flavor of the month in Edinburgh council's books I shouldn't think

I had forgotten these were the former 900 vehicles, in which case yes I can confirm they were a long way from being factory fresh at the end of their 900 duties goodness knows what reliability must be like both mechanically and in terms of onboard systems etc

EUS is generally one of the better stations in London for assists, but as you say they are a very thinly stretched resource and you just know that if they're going to get it wrong and get it wrong spectacularly it will be when the sleeper arrives early and absolutely nobody's paying any...

Which hopefully will happen soon enough as they must be knackered Wonder if they're going to evaluate which vehicle type performs better out of the three that they've taken recently including the 9700 and order accordingly

Regardless of using them on suitable routes, stagecoach nationally are going to need some heavy investment in coach fleet across multiple locations, I should imagine that virtually everyone other than Oxford tube that operates routes with coaches are crying out for some new vehicles and making...