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The latest version of the National Rail App is infuriating. There are loads of circumstances where you are now locked out from looking at journey details. It is any situation where the app decides it can’t offer you a ticket for that service. What on earth is going on. This is primarily an...

Ridiculous if it is the case. You can’t have things on a midlife refurb falling apart within the first months of what needs to be 15 years ish of service. If is clearly going to need to be addressed and fixed. Interested to know what the other issues are. The previous moquette looked good as...

I am on a 390 and it is clear there is a problem with the refurb. Small in some ways but looks like a uniform issue and so large in that sense. The attached photos show the corners of the arm rests have already frayed. Pretty much every arm rest in the carriage I am in is affected. Obviously...

Err cough cough, you both appear to be accusing the OP of not paying their fare. It doesn’t take the brightest lawyer in the world to re-read your posts and realise you have both potentially libeled them. Unless I am missing some rather critical words in the original post, such as ‘which was...

I suspect it was a not particularly difficult to grasp comment about train companies that seem to be able to do fairly well at arranging personnel to clamp down on fare evasion but seem remarkably inept at fixing the trains or working with the asset owner of the infrastructure they operate over...

I have a soft spot for many of the trains mentioned above, old and newer. However, put them on a run from Leeds to London, on today’s track and at that line speed, do any of them objectively beat the class 373. The older examples are lovely, iconic and delicious, but was the ride as good as a...

I am just on a class 373 Eurostar fondly recalling days when this train ran from Leeds to London. The quality of the look, feel and ride just feels miles ahead of anything else I have traveled on in the UK, as did the unrefurbished version when it ran as the White Rose service. Excluding HS1...

Thanks. I have always thought of the 390 carriage length as fairly long. Interesting that 7 can almost equal 9. Still, seems a bit of waste of WCML capacity not to go a bit longer and have SDO at South Parkway.

Apologies I couldn’t locate an answer to this in the thread although I am sure it must be covered. What is the logic of 7 carriage rather than 9 or 11 for the 807’s?

Sounds like somebody lost their tamper

Good to see them accepting defeat on seat/window alignment in the renders. Now let’s just hope they also stick with shoving people on particularly long journeys into the seats without a window as seems to happen frequently now. Then the traditional XC experience will be complete.

We are meant to have decarbonised the whole of the UK 10 years after TRU is delivered. Interesting. Let’s hope our ambition is more significant in other areas that it is in terms of TRU delivery. It is nuts really bearing in mind the project should have expected a significant dividend from the...

It is tricky one, Bradford being a city that is big enough to warrant direct London services. Equally I wonder if there is appetite for services to stations north of York. However, just don’t get why they can just use the infrastructure as is. That is what the long platform was built for...

Exactly. Don’t get me wrong, I really don’t begrudge Bradford investment. The city has been stripped of two great stations and left with two stations the relevant planners should be ashamed of. However, as they are not coming back and there must be lots of better things to spend £24 million...

I don’t see why they can’t go for something a bit more like this.

I still think is a massive shame they have never found a way to integrate the dark arches into the station, for taxi/drop off and for an expanded concourse. Something St Pancras style would be great. The Southern entrance could have been so much less convoluted as well.

Ha, an often debated point in Huddersfield. Certainly a juxtaposition with the station building. I think the main roof would look really good with the hole filled in and lighter interior cladding. The whole platform area would feel a lot better with something to stop the wind from the...

Agreed! The one thing I find confusing at Farringdon is the super time restricted exit times on the Turnmill St exit. It seems crazy to me not to encourage as much traffic as possible out of/into that exit to reduce footfall at the other end of the platforms where space is quite restricted and...

Is anybody else finding the area from the top of the escalators to the gate lines sub-optimal? Bearing in mind this a very expensive rebuild the gateline queue seems as bad as ever if not worse. Is the problem the lack of obvious route through to the left hand gates I wonder. It all just...

Quite. The interchanges will be fun as well, bearing in mind the Elizabeth line does not intersect with the Victoria line or the Piccadilly Line . Some already very busy stations are going to be a mess and disbursal throughout London clumsy. Good job it doesn’t go anywhere useful at the...