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Title: From press feeds - UK topics that may inform transport interests in the West Post by: grahame on March 10, 2019, 09:01:12 I could start an awful lot of threads and drown boards with what I find interesting in the wider UK news ... so here is (initially) 3 in one - from 10th March 2019. Please feel free to quote / start fresh threads if something is of more than passing interest. I wonder, for example, if the Spalding call for trains to be moved out of the town to allow level crossings to close may ring a bell (or sting) in Portishead ...
"Free bus travel for all in Scotland" call by scottish Labour Leader - BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-47497539) "£200million train cab where drivers can't see out the window: Station signals obscured from the seat and views blocked by a wall housing the safety ladder put passengers in danger" - Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6790547/200million-train-cab-drivers-window-passengers-danger.html), re: Great Northern class 717 "The idea of moving the railway around Spalding to avoid a few traffic hold ups is the limit, and shows a complete lack of understanding of the matter." - Spalding Today (https://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/letters-to-the-free-press-editor-9063985/) This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |