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Just been watching Portillo travelling across London. The station facilities, infrastructure and rolling stock that you have down there are light years ahead of anything we have. You've been on Merseyrail. That rolling stock is 40 years old. Most of the stations were built, not in the last century, but the one before that and few have had anything other than cosmetic work done to them. That Thameslink system. We can only dream of such stuff. Yet you still complain.Fare increase money well spent again, reckon those luxurious Pacers have years of life left in them yet
Ah yes. I thought soTrue.
St Pancras it is then
Just been watching Portillo travelling across London. The station facilities, infrastructure and rolling stock that you have down there are light years ahead of anything we have. You've been on Merseyrail. That rolling stock is 40 years old. Most of the stations were built, not in the last century, but the one before that and few have had anything other than cosmetic work done to them. That Thameslink system. We can only dream of such stuff. Yet you still complain.
The Pacer trains on Northern Rail are bus bodies on railway wagon chassis so you can imagine how comfortable they are. They too are 40 years old.
It would be nice to see the fare money spent where it comes from instead of being inexorably sucked to Lunnun.
Just wouldn't be the North without a lot of the poor old us,
Never been to Germany. Been to Swiss a lot and they are superb. And yes the trains do run on time.We could all learn something about public transport from Germany, cheap, plentiful, comfortable and reliable.
Never been to Germany. Been to Swiss a lot and they are superb. And yes the trains do run on time.
We could all learn something about public transport from Germany, cheap, plentiful, comfortable and reliable.
The European countries electrified their railways while our forward thinking government decided we should build some new steam locomotives.
Why modernise when you can carry on using century old technology then scrap them all ten years later for diesels
Thank you @Justin Case . It's already been identified several times, but nice to see you contributingI believe that is part of King's Cross connecting to St Pancras (for non Londoners, they are two stations next to each other)
Is London really subsidized by fare money from other parts of the UK?Just been watching Portillo travelling across London. The station facilities, infrastructure and rolling stock that you have down there are light years ahead of anything we have. You've been on Merseyrail. That rolling stock is 40 years old. Most of the stations were built, not in the last century, but the one before that and few have had anything other than cosmetic work done to them. That Thameslink system. We can only dream of such stuff. Yet you still complain.
The Pacer trains on Northern Rail are bus bodies on railway wagon chassis so you can imagine how comfortable they are. They too are 40 years old.
It would be nice to see the fare money spent where it comes from instead of being inexorably sucked to Lunnun.
I don't think they are a heritage railway, when I went there on holiday I used to get from a to b. (It is a nice for those who have never been to IOW.Those IOW trains were on Portillo last night. Yes they are old just as every other heritage railway has old stock. Being basically a tourist attraction it's hard to consider them day to day working stock.
Apparently it confused J.K. Rowling too. (The two stations next to each other bit)I believe that is part of King's Cross connecting to St Pancras (for non Londoners, they are two stations next to each other)