*Intake of breath*Plenty of room. When VTWC looked at it a few years ago, they were looking at a location further down the southern end of platforms 3 and 4.
Doable though the distance for passengers to walk! Might need to look at travelators!
*Intake of breath*Plenty of room. When VTWC looked at it a few years ago, they were looking at a location further down the southern end of platforms 3 and 4.
*Intake of breath*
Doable though the distance for passengers to walk! Might need to look at travelators!
They walk down there to board First Class anyway don't they?
So the DofT weren’t involved in the hitachi high speed train program for GWR and East Coast then???So much negativity in this thread.
1. The DfT do not get involved with TOC-specified rolling stock, end of. DfT influence ends with the capacity requirements set out at ITT stage.
Also their are passengers in the UK who have no other means of transport except the train, even if its just to get to some places so to generalise that everyone always has a second choice of transport if the train service is worse than it was before is just pure speculation
And repeat after me:Repeat after me:
I must not read the Daily Mail.
I must not read the Daily Mail.
I wonder what the set up of the onboard train crew will be?!
They walk down there to board First Class anyway don't they?
exactly what happens at Runcorn. And what used to be the case at Stoke.
The buses dont go everywhere what about those who have no choice but relying on the train? We cant all avoid awful train companiesQuite like your first sentence as for the vast majority, the bus will be the only mode of transport and not the train and lets be honest people who do not have another mode of transport such as pedal cycle or car or motorcycle will generally not live in very remote places with no public transport
There`ll be taking lessons from GWR then.One to push the trolley, or try and hide with the trolley.
You must not read the Guardian either if you think they write positive things about Jeremy CorbynAnd repeat after me:
I must not read the guardian
I must not read the guardian
That's enough politics now
Could say the same about COV and BHI but yet they still are.
I think I mentioned in another post that for at least the last 10 years there has been nothing Virgin like about the service as it just plods on daily. If that deteriorates you know it will be down to management change, I imagine most current staff will be disappointed as Virgin must be one of the more humane employers on the network. First appear to have a fairly positive 22 year culture to grapple with , and to screw this up when the franchise is engaged to HS2 (wedding not booked yet)I can't imagine the DFT will want the aggro or bad PR.
I think I mentioned in another post that for at least the last 10 years there has been nothing Virgin like about the service as it just plods on daily. If that deteriorates you know it will be down to management change, I imagine most current staff will be disappointed as Virgin must be one of the more humane employers on the network. First appear to have a fairly positive 22 year culture to grapple with , and to screw this up when the franchise is engaged to HS2 (wedding not booked yet)I can't imagine the DFT will want the aggro or bad PR.
No you couldn't really. Pretty much every TOC calling at those stations stops there.
That's because it's not been Virgin for years. Let's be honest it's stagecoach!
That reminds me of the old GWR joke:Very pleased to hear that TOCs calling at International and Coventry do indeed stop there...
That reminds me of the old GWR joke:
"Does this train stop at Paddington?"
"If not, madam, there'll be an almighty crash!"
The buses dont go everywhere what about those who have no choice but relying on the train? We cant all avoid awful train companies
Very pleased to hear that TOCs calling at International and Coventry do indeed stop there...
You get what I meant. Comparing TOCs stopping at the likes of rugby to those that call at BHI and Cov is a bit strange.
If they went on the Birmingham services I wouldn't have a problem. I would recommend they introduce an hourly service to Blackpool calling at Warrington Wigan Preston Lancaster, then the fast Glasgow could only call at Warrington Preston and Carlisle. Oxenholme and Penrith both get fast TPE trains, people headed for London could change at Preston. Warrington has an absurdly small amount of services for the Town it is, so that would benefit them. The Glasgow service would be 10 mins shorter, meaning it would be around 4h 20 mins, around the same as LNER to Edinburgh, and considering Edinburgh is closer to London that is an achievement.Maximum is not that high Motherwell-Glasgow (80-90 iirc), and the calls would likely go into the slower via Birmingham services than the Euston fasts. Even if they went into the fasts I don't see about 3 mins making much of a difference to passengers really.
Im SWR, even worse for us hahaSpend a few weeks as a regular user with GWR and you might well change a few of those points.
Timetabling wise, maybe not. Reality wise, I think so. More than not I reckon delayed Scotrail services will cause Virgin *First* trains to run slower.There is no way a Motherwell call will reduce the time by 10 minutes and the maximum speed between the two is 90mph anyway.
If they went on the Birmingham services I wouldn't have a problem. I would recommend they introduce an hourly service to Blackpool calling at Warrington Wigan Preston Lancaster, then the fast Glasgow could only call at Warrington Preston and Carlisle. Oxenholme and Penrith both get fast TPE trains, people headed for London could change at Preston. Warrington has an absurdly small amount of services for the Town it is, so that would benefit them. The Glasgow service would be 10 mins shorter, meaning it would be around 4h 20 mins, around the same as LNER to Edinburgh, and considering Edinburgh is closer to London that is an achievement.
Quite like your first sentence as for the vast majority, the bus will be the only mode of transport and not the train and lets be honest people who do not have another mode of transport such as pedal cycle or car or motorcycle will generally not live in very remote places with no public transport
Of course, forgot that the Azuma will decrease the journey times. That will seriously compete with air travel now.LNER to Edinburgh is mainly going to 4 hours dead when the new, accelerated timetable comes out
If they went on the Birmingham services I wouldn't have a problem. I would recommend they introduce an hourly service to Blackpool calling at Warrington Wigan Preston Lancaster, then the fast Glasgow could only call at Warrington Preston and Carlisle. Oxenholme and Penrith both get fast TPE trains, people headed for London could change at Preston. Warrington has an absurdly small amount of services for the Town it is, so that would benefit them. The Glasgow service would be 10 mins shorter, meaning it would be around 4h 20 mins, around the same as LNER to Edinburgh, and considering Edinburgh is closer to London that is an achievement.
As a user of South Western railway, its a shame that First are taking over Virgin. When first took over the south western franchise, I was quite happy as south west trains needed a change. But so far First haven't delivered much, some Desiros have a different interior, many of the 159s have new livery but old interior, and the 442s planned for May 2018 still haven't gone into service yet.
Virgin on the other hand was a good operator, and I think First might ruin its legacy. The new idea of calls at Motherwell is not a good idea, Motherwell already gets some morning and afternoon services, calling at Motherwell will make the service slower by at least 10 minutes, as I doubt the Pendolinos will go over 100mph between there and Glasgow, and the calls will have to fit in with Scotrail suburban services.