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A model train company put in a joke offer for the West-coast franchise, and got a response from someone in gov't with a sense of humour: http://blog.bigjigstoys.co.uk/our-wcml-bid-has-been-accepted-almost/  
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My monthly SPT Zonecard has increased £6 to £101. I'll be interested to see if my commute costs less when the Scotland-wide Oystercard-like system is completed.
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Chocolate Teapot posted:How the gently caress does something like this get posed as a question? Honest to gently caress, next it'll be checking whether privatisation benefits poor people. So you think the BBC shouldn't look into things and should just accept "common knowledge"? The general public's perception of price rises are almost always without consideration of inflation, like the whole "Freddos aren't 10p anymore!?!?!" thing; while since the time Freddos were priced at 10p there has been almost 100% inflation, so they are now 20p. The BBC article points out that several rail routes and ticket types have not increased equal to inflation, even though the general trend is that rail prices have increased more than inflation. twoot fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Jan 24, 2013 |
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Reveilled posted:Man, that's really flat. I don't think there's a single level crossing in all of Glasgow. There is a car crossing at Bowling which used to be for getting to the shipyards, but its been inactive since the area was razed.
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For the last week or so Charing Cross station in Glasgow has completely reeked of shite. Don't breath through your nose levels of shite. There must be raw sewerage pouring into the tunnels somewhere. My addition to trainchat. twoot fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Sep 23, 2013 |
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Nothing to add to HS2chat but I got linked this picture and thought it was really great; Taken during the late-70s refurbishment of the Glasgow Subway at St Enoch's station. The current ticket hall is on a level between old building (now a Costa) and the lines.
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Standing at the station and an ancient diesel unit pulls through with some translator carriages. It revs up halfway through the station and covers everyone with a thick exhaust cloud. I imagine that this is a train drivers gently caress you because they can't use puddles 
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thehustler posted:I've just moved to Edinburgh at the start of May but knew about the tram debacle. It's a mess. Who is going to use them. What do trams give Edinburgh that they couldn't do before? Even with 3 lines, I fail to see how they really are better than the buses. Prestige and having a big infrastructure project that the Council could gloat about mostly.
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Bozza posted:Trams are ace but Edinburgh council hosed up big time in their specs for the system because they managed to fail to account for how terrible most other utilities are at records keeping so were shocked to find electric cables and gas pipes under the road every 10m which they somehow agreed to reroute. Signing up to a contract which was so one sided it would have enabled the contractors to build a £500million golden cock and get out with no challenge didn't help either.
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coffeetable posted:Was it stupidity or corruption on the council's part? A bit of both as per normal. The contract has clauses which have made it nearly impossible to fight the contractors on their poor project management and quality of construction, to the point where if the Scottish government hadn't bailed out the project to allow it to complete to this stage then all the work would've had to be torn up and scrapped and the contractors would have faced pretty much no repercussions. The council was warned at the contracting phase that this would happen if they signed as-is and simply brushed it off. There was also some degree of collusion between the Quantity surveyor firm and the Contractors to gently caress the Council out of more money, but I can't remember how exactly that played out. There was a really good blog which documented all of the farce but I can't find it now.
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Double-deck trains proposed for Waterloo station lines 
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Apparently Crossrail might have some problems with it's fancy signalling. Crossrail faces the prospect of signal trouble from day one quote:Crossrail, the South-East's £15bn new rail line, is on course for a humiliating signalling failure when it opens in 2018.
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The world's  http://news.stv.tv/west-central/1345257-driverless-trains-unveiled-for-glasgows-subway-system/ quote:Driverless trains will be introduced on Glasgow's Subway from 2020 as part of a £288m modernisation.
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forkboy84 posted:I assume the talk of having a new subway line built is still the sort of rumour that comes up once every few years but is far too expensive to actually be acted upon, sort of like the road tunnel under the Caledonian Canal in Inverness or the oft talk about direct link from Queen Street & Central Stations It's come up a few times when tying in a new subway line makes a councillors' pet infrastructure project sound more appealing. Yet the subway extension has never appeared. twoot fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Mar 5, 2016 |
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Network Rail put out a cool timelapse of the work they're doing at Glasgow Queen Street https://vimeo.com/168967790
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