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Nice one. I think the loco number is 46100, though.

Hey, lovely to see my videos getting more and more popular now haha :) I agree that the Triangle should have stayed as it is, but at the same time, I'd have given it a number (maybe the 7), to allow easier identification for it. Also, I find it quite stupid that there is no more direct bus between Herne Bay and Whitstable. Yes, the train exists, absolutely, but it's quite a long walk away from both town centres and the bus provides this great convenient connection serving areas of both Herne Bay and Whitstable that are a long walk away from the train station. At the very least, IMO, extend the 401 to Herne Bay and the 601 to Whitstable.

Here in Exeter I think a new station should be built at Honiton Road where the Avocet line crosses the A3015 on a bridge. This would create a 5 min walking distance connection with the Park & Ride next to the M5 junction (there are bus stops next to the bridge anyway so walking to the P&R wouldn't even be necessary for buses going via Heavitree). This would help relieve pressure off the busy 4 bus going to Exeter St Davids station as well as creating a new railway interchange outside the city centre.

You know nothing about buses in the real world stagecoach obviously disagree with you otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. Presumably people aren't using at 15 minute intervals . The triangle branding looks crap and the buses recommended stagecoach don't ow. How about a compromise T 1-5 route thing still triangle shaped possibly with apart of the triangle network thing on them and using stagecoach gold buses. Would people use an express at the end of the day it's money company councils and public mix it together and you get a service and nobody ever thinks it perfect and integration with other transport doesn't work as buses and trains are in many places seperate as well

Tonbridge-Redhill is an under-appreciated line, with some lovely scenery, particularly in the spring when all the hedges are 'iced' with early plum and blackthorn blossom. At one point it had a half-hourly service, courtesy of KCC, who wanted a link from the Medway towns to Gatwick. Covid and council cuts did for that, but I do think it could be part of a more frequent 'Medway Metro', maybe all the way from Sheerness to Gatwick, via Maidstone and Paddock Wood, giving easy connections to Croydon, Tunbridge Wells, and Gravesend/Bluewater. Lots of attractions en-route, too, if someone put on some connecting bus services: Chartwell, plus Hever and Chiddingstone castles (from Edenbridge); Penshurst Place, Tonbridge castle, Paddock Wood/Beltring hop farm; Yalding lock and village; West Farleigh station; Maidstone carriage museum and archbishop's palace; Allington lock and castle (needs a new station); Aylesford village and friary; Snodland (Kent's largest village); Rochester castle; Chatham Dockyard; Sittingbourne steam railway, Isle of Sheppey ...

Great video - your arguments are prety persuasive! My ideas are to make the London Overground network more effective: at present, the OG 'loop' connects with many of the radial lines to/from central London, but there are some 'misses', and I suggest: (1) Bermondsey, linking the OG Windrush to the SE suburban lines via Greenwich, Lewisham and Grove Park - this could enable the OG New X branch to be closed and higher frequencies put on the other Windrush branches ; (2) Loughborough Junction high-level, Windrush to Thameslink Sutton branch; (3) Brixton high-level (no further comment needed!); (4) Acton (south of S.Acton station), Mildmay Richmond branch (and W.London Orbital, when it arrives) to the District and Piccadilly lines; (5) Old Oak Common - hopefully they are going to build platforms on both Mildmay branches, linking to the new GWML/Elizabeth line station; (6) some way of linking the Mildmay line with the Northern line Hampstead branch (ideas on a postcard, please); and finally (7) Tuffnel Park, Northern line Barnet branch to the Suffragette line (Goblin).

It's certainly not a comfortable station, and it looks unloved. It's lonely - not well used because the service (every 15 minutes for much of the day) is relatively poor. The 38 bus from near the station is every 5 minutes, direct to the heart of the west end. A tube-level frequency would transform usage - as it has on the Croydon and Manchester trams, and the DLR. You can beat the 38 by going to Highbury & Islington and changing to the Victoria line; more trains would encourage people to do that. Maybe the GN&City line as a whole could be give a new purpose by extending it from Moorgate - my suggestion would be via Mansion House (with links also to the Waterloo & City, and the Central line bank platforms), the Globe theatre and then London Bridge to continue on the Peckham Rye lines (lots of connections there) so linking up Enfield, Potters Bar and Alexandra Palace in the north to Streatham, Croydon, Crystal Palace and Beckenham in the south - effectively a new tube (or perhaps Overground) line. Also, it might be expensive to rebuild Old Street or Moorgate to give cross-platform interchange with the Northern line, but it would really improve the passenger experience!

Interesting to see this fore-runner of a great system

I think it is a waste of time and money having two routes operate what used to be one full route. Decreasing the frequency also makes the buses a lot more busier (even if they weren't already). The chances of connecting with each bus, depending which direction you go, is also just annoying. It wastes everyone's time.

It seems that Stagecoach has been doing away with route branding ever since their corporate reshaping in 2020. Here in Stagecoach South territory we had a number of bus routes that had been given names rather than numbers, such as the Kite (Aldershot-Guildford), YoYo (Farnborough-Prospect Estate) and Link (Basingstoke-Newbury), after a larger exercise in branding bus routes after children's toys in the 2000s. Those that have stayed have been slowly faded away over the past few years now they've been diluted into the new livery, with the names recently reverting to numbers (20, 6 and 32 respectively) which isn't as memorable. On your point regarding bus-train integration, I'd argue there is an element of ticketing being available for both modes, this coming in the form of Plusbus - a day ticket for bus travel at the area of the destination station. However, this can only be bought from an origin station, so it can't be bought on a bus. There is also little publicity about its existence, so it's hardly surprising when bus drivers are confused with me showing the Plusbus to them. There are also certain locations where every effort is gone into promoting dual-mode transport, be it displaying bus timetable leaflets in the station concourse or showing train times on the next-stop digital displays throughout an area, but it's hit or miss. Above all, an excellent video. (Apologies for the very long comment!)

Whilst your suggestions are all laudable they do have one thing in common, cost. Cost eats into profits. Electric buses are lovely but they are way more expensive than a diesel powered one, they also have limited range which would have to be incorporated into the timetable (journeys may have to be shortened to get the vehicles onto charge points). Inter company availability of tickets is a nightmare to organise, I've just finished (as part of a team) almost a year of negotiations with another bus operator so we can accept each others tickets. Have you sent this video directly to Stagecoach? I would and also Kent County Council (do they help financially with the service?). Good luck.

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4:54 this reminds me of Oxford Bus Company - They have Electroliners with coach seats and tables and all that funky stuff Just imagine that...

Nice Job

Great video of the informative video!

Very informative and professional! Hope your channel goes far!!! :)

Great video, love the passing Azuma too!

You make some good points, but you have overlooked what research has shown. There are very few through passengers from Ashford to Brighton. The most popular destination is Eastbourne. There is not much of a case for re-opening the line to Dungeness as there would be too few passengers. As regards the Javelin, under all the rules and regulation of transport, the railways are not allowed to deliberately take passengers the long way around for the purpose of charging more. That means the fare on the Javelin Train from Hastings via Ashford to St Pancras could not cost more than to Victoria or Charing X. There is a safety restriction on the installation of new 3rd rail electrification, so it would have to be catenary which is more expensive and cannot be funded. Thanks for uploading.

It's been looked at but because it's on a flood plain that floods, the whole station would have to be elevated along with a car park, and as it's designated as a SSI, it's unlikely it will ever get passed by planning whoever is in charge politically! I suggested back in the 1990's it was a no brainer, reducing traffic pollution caused by Sturry Crossing and Cantering West Station as traffic all over the city comes to a standstill waiting for the trains. The costs would be expensive too and links to the city centre would create more bus journeys. I included in my costed proposals two alternative options one was a cable car which would provide incredible views of the city without blocking views of residential property or a maglev monorail to take people in and out of the city to the Bus Station. Both solutions worked out cheaper than off slips and by-pass options currently under consideration by KCC and Uk Gov! A cable car to the UKC would also take most of the traffic off the existing roads? Costs have gone up significantly since I costed it but still worth considering, as it says in the video Thanet Parkway is proving popular, maybe the risks and costs make it prohibitively impossible!

I am an Ashford boy myself, couldn't agree more about the Marshlink line station.

Based off of the windows and the carriage numbers that is a 165 and not a 166, to be precise 165106.

Cheadle ( Manchester) , Baguley ( interchange with Metro) between Stockport and Altrincham , extended beyond Stockport via Reddish and Denton to Stalybridge providing a cross Manchester service and network. Re connect Matlock and Buxton . A line from Stanstead north of London towards the Midland main line and from Luton towards Milton Keynes Not new line but electrification from Coventry to Didcot and all of the Chiltern network More mundane is reassess the Met line extension round Watford into Watford High Street rather than abandoning you at Cassiobury Park ! Around Birmingham I admit I am not too familiar with the traffic flows but sure there must be some .

Woah. This is very underrated, this deserves more views

What’s so creepy? 😂

That thing was doing 80mph before it left the station lmao

I think this is Redhill. The 377 was going to Reigate, though.

Good. Who would want to get off at the most Haunted Village in the UK.

I can tell that the train is bouncing a lot due to the camera work

I would suggest a combination of - New 155 mph+ HS1 stock - Skip Stratford International and/or Ebbsfleet - Split trains at Ashford to maximise path utilisation - Upgrade to Hastings as recommended. By skipping Stratford International and flying through at 100 mph you could probably get to Ashford in ~25 mins. Bringing many places to London in 1hr.

Great video, thank you for giving credit in my videos! Nice overview too

Really good video, went on it just after lockdown in 2020 and it felt so isolated icl

I think that's a pretty ambitious upgrade programme, but it's good to aim high. Electrification seems like the most obvious infrastructure upgrade - this would provide greater capacity on Marshlink, and make through running beyond Ashford and Hastings a lot easier. There would also be the benefit of newer trains for Marshlink, and releasing the 171s for use elsewhere in the country.

Very insightful- it’s one of the few lines I’ve yet to travel on - you came up with some good options!

Nice - quite a contrast with the scenic mountain sections of the line!

I rode this line in the last car in the train back in 1978 with friends of mine when I was in the US navy. The train was packed out and we had to stand on the rearmost platform with some attractive young Spanish women. We didn't speak each others language but we had a fine time regardless.

Nice. I hadn't realised the Sóller line had so much street running in Palma.

During the mid 2000's, the administration planned to renovate the whole network in Mallorca by electrifying all lines and bought new rail stock. Amongst them, this tram was supposed to be used in a new tram line in Manacor-Artà. When the 2008 crisis hit, everything came to a complete stop (electrification didn't finish until a few years ago) and the whole tram line got axed. Since they already had the stock for it, they decided to use it as extra muscle during peak hours/holidays, doing express services as well as low demand services.

Nice one. I'm impressed by how scenic the Sóller line is.

Ive been on the 395 so many times one of the best sounds

Nice one - I didn't know the Soller trains need to run round. Also it's curious that the horn is very similar to those on London Underground trains.

cool vid :)

Great video, I've subscribed! I also visited Thanet Parkway Station recently and while I'm pleased to see a new railway station opened. I was disappointed with the lack of service and the access to the village is also pretty terrible.

Awesome catch

Just to make this clear I agree with the station existing just not how it has been done!

Class 375 from Ramsgate to London Victoria via sole street

Great video

That is a 1960 stock cab

where was this?