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#124318

JK2006

Day in Liverpool 10 Years, 8 Months ago
Went up to Liverpool yesterday. Still cannot believe it's only 2 hours on the train. The country looked lovely in the frost (except during the foggy bits). Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#124321

dixie

Re:Day in Liverpool 10 Years, 8 Months ago

Nobody seems to want to acknowledge that Richard Branson's Virgin Trains has done an amazing job on revitalising the West Coast Line. The Pendilino trains are a great improvement on the old inter-city 125s (about 30 years old) still being used on the East Coast and Great Western lines. Plus the Virgin service is significantly more reliable - despite having to share the old track with local services.

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#124327

Pattaya

Re:Day in Liverpool 10 Years, 8 Months ago

dixie wrote:
Nobody seems to want to acknowledge that Richard Branson's Virgin Trains has done an amazing job on revitalising the West Coast Line. The Pendilino trains are a great improvement on the old inter-city 125s (about 30 years old) still being used on the East Coast and Great Western lines. Plus the Virgin service is significantly more reliable - despite having to share the old track with local services.

Yes indeed,I use it from London myself,and when you compare it with London Midland etc it's years in advance.

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#124368

In The Know (as always)

Re:Day in Liverpool 10 Years, 8 Months ago
Pattaya wrote: Yes indeed,I use it from London myself,and when you compare it with London Midland etc it's years in advance. Inter City Trains ... a consortium (coalition !) of Virgin / Stagecoach - has just won the franchise. Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#124369

JK2006

Re:Day in Liverpool 10 Years, 8 Months ago

Yes - congratulations to them; my experiences with Virgin Trains has been overwhelmingly positive (plus the fact that they wouldn't exist had it not been for me discovering Genesis - and neither would the rest of the Virgin Empire. Mr Branson could never have expanded on Mike Oldfield alone).

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#124372

Pattaya

Re:Day in Liverpool 10 Years, 8 Months ago

JK2006 wrote:
Yes - congratulations to them; my experiences with Virgin Trains has been overwhelmingly positive (plus the fact that they wouldn't exist had it not been for me discovering Genesis - and neither would the rest of the Virgin Empire. Mr Branson could never have expanded on Mike Oldfield alone).

And here was me thinking it was the Sex Pistols.

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#124376

In The Know (as always)

Re:Day in Liverpool 10 Years, 8 Months ago
eh ? Genesis were not even on Virgin - they were on Charisma, surely ? Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#124380

JK2006

Re:Day in Liverpool 10 Years, 8 Months ago
When Virgin took them over, the label started making money. The Sex Pistols got loads of press but punk never really made big money for years, especially not in America. Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#124390

honey!oh sugar sugar.

Re:Day in Liverpool 10 Years, 8 Months ago

JK2006 wrote:
Went up to Liverpool yesterday. Still cannot believe it's only 2 hours on the train. The country looked lovely in the frost (except during the foggy bits).

It is a lovely journey. I like when the train goes past the houses and you get a tiny glimpse into people's houses and lives.
Whereabouts did you go? Presumably Jamaica street? Anywhere else?

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#124391

JK2006

Re:Day in Liverpool 10 Years, 7 Months ago
It was just studio and work all day sadly! Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#124393

dixie

Re:Day in Liverpool 10 Years, 7 Months ago

In The Know (as always) wrote:
Pattaya wrote:

Yes indeed,I use it from London myself,and when you compare it with London Midland etc it's years in advance.

Inter City Trains ... a consortium (coalition !) of Virgin / Stagecoach - has just won the franchise.

It's a Virgin/Stagecoach consortium that runs West Coast, (but a 50/50 split not 10/90 as East Coast will be). The new trains for the East Coast were ordered a couple of years ago, (so whoever had won were going to get new trains eventually). I just can't understand why they don't order more 11-coach Pendolinos for the East Coast. They really are the best trains on the network.

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