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@Samuel_Lloyds @GarethDennis Well it does go up if you have to rent the carriages off the train landlord

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@nickabrooks @PaulJohnson65 @Ogilvie_CJ Northern hedged and they've been nationalised even longer.

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@NoelDolphin Oh I totally agree. But because everything Has to be discontinuous otherwise it's not "innovative" and "value for money", I see this as a pretty strategic way of moving around that arbitrary requirement

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@GarethDennis Not to worry, if it turns out he only thought he had his phones nicked in a mugging and he finds it later - they'll come down like a tonne of bricks on him. Probable collusion to sell workphones on the blackmarket no doubt

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@AlanJi73069669 @NoelDolphin @jerryalderson But also
Manchester-Redcar
Manchester-Hull
Manchester-Cleethorpes via Sheffield
Scarborough Line

Area around Berwick (Chathill - Reston) on ECML has to be diesel for lackings of infrastructure investment

Consider that they have 19x class 802, 12x class 397, but 51x class 185

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@kikithorpedo @tinybird420 @BrexitBen @GundamDoll I was very impressed by the public transport when I lived in Nottingham

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@paultrowntree @NoelDolphin I believe if we're gonna commit to cancelling MMLe it should be used as an opportunity to massively remodel that area with a flyover for freight. MMLe could be reinstated north of Syston easily tho, perhaps with some effort to passive provide for Derby-Birmingham wires

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@exit_everything @LagstoneHall One of the significant limiting factors on train lengths is roscos which haven't gone anywhere. A longer train literally costs for to rent from the arbitrary train landlords that don't need to exist

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@kokeshimum @PeterGe31331247 the benefit of having some kind of devolved authority between your area and the uk gov. Most of England gets full frontal Westminster. I recall in my gcse English exam we had to answer "local gov is proposing scrapping children's bus fares but keeping senior bus passes, debate!"

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@CmdrSpace @libdembounce Fares per mile is broadly what the TfL zone system is which has been extended to Southend/Witham/Stansted.

There's no real competition on rail networks, it's just timetable planners doing their best with the available infra. Find me an OAO who's willing to fund quading GEML

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@CmdrSpace @libdembounce It's not the competition that reduces fares, it's the capacity. To be crude, there are 4 railway tracks between london and cambridge/southend. There are only 2 between London and Colchester. This factor can't be replacated with Colchester unless you build new railway

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@CmdrSpace @libdembounce But with southend/ cambridge there are entirely different railways available (ECML, LT&S). A competitor for Colchester is still on GEML tracks. If there's spare capacity on that route, GA would be using it by now. There's no ability for 'competition' to lower fares on that route

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@gatasnirafayel This is an unusually nuanced and sensible twitch comments. There are a few fools but not at all a majority

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@ChimeWhistle Power supply issues have been known for years, they came up with a plan to fix it in the 1990s but they only managed to complete half of it with much equipment built and mothballed. People need to realise that WCRM was never finished

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@juan_sin_tierra @StatisticUrban I somehow doubt the LNER was running a 6 car train every 7 minutes off peak though. Any equivalent village even around London without such an historical quirk would be getting 2 bus per hr at best

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@ollee @StatisticUrban This is so dumb, whether or not the alignment is surface or tunnelled, it still runs with metro frequency. A 6 car train runs through here every 7mins off peak, that's crazy level of service for a semi-rural exurb. An equivalent town around any other city would get like 2 bus/hr

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@AaronBastani Norwich is a stark picture in this regard.
In the northern most seat, reform won over greens by 69 votes!

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@nsbarrow I've since heard that Aventra trains nationwide reacted badly to the frequency. But imo, Pudding Mill Lane seems to be the only site to actually have lost power (for XR and GA).

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@nsbarrow #NRPowerOutage

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@nsbarrow There were several power cuts affecting 25kV railways in parts of London, related in any way?