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Tram 40 was delivered to Wednesbury yesterday.

The B9TLs have returned to Sheffield with ex-Doncaster ALXs in service in the Potteries in their place.

Don't also forget that on routes like the CrossCity and Snow Hill lines that there isn't much distance between stations, and so guards may not find any benefit of going through the train on doing revenue.

Rather than complaining about the price of through tickets on CrossCountry, split ticketing is perfectly legal and no-one can stop you from purchasing them to cover your journey as long as all trains stop where the tickets are split at;

Hednesford to Manchester, split ticket at Rugeley takes the cost down to £28.30.

The difference between TOCs and even train crew depots is the contracts. Some guards are employed on a commercial basis (revenue protection on top of safety critical duties) whilst others are non-commercial. I'm not sure whether all LM guards are commercial or not, although if not it'd go some way towards explaining the lack of revenue protection onboard certain services.

A man has been struck by a tram at Manchester Victoria Either last Monday, today or Yesterday as the Telegraph have stated a Monday

Reported that a man was pushed between a double unit on a Manchester bound tram. Currently a murder investigation.

Fatal accident at Kenrick Park on Sunday just gone https://www.facebook.com/British.Tramway/photos/a.394223990735238.1073741827.394220774068893/798909083600058/?type=3&theater

Another tram collision in Sheffield yesterday

AUTUMN CASCADE IN THE PIPELINE FOR DMUs

A small cascade of Porterbrook owned DMU's involving GWR, London Midland and Northern is planned for later this year.
Five GWR Class 153's are scheduled to move to LM in the autumn to replace three Class 150/1's, which will move to Northern. The single car 153's are 153325/329/333/361/369, and are the only five leased from Porterbrook by GWR. They will replace 150105/107/109, which are the only members of the class leased by LM.

Is this service really a 165?  I would have thought that a 166 would have been more suitable.

I was always under the impression the 165 and 166 diagrams were interchangeable?

Taken my seemingly yearly visit to the West Midlands, took the opportunity to try and win a couple of trains...

http://60054.railmiles.me/journeys/?date=20170429

The reason one of the Marston Vale services is a 150 is because a single 153 cannot cope with a crowd of school children on one trip

The only difference is, it's going to have to cope unless some platform extensions happen. Whether LM or anyone else like it, they're losing the 150s and getting 153s instead.

But the 150s are used on the Bedford to Bletchley line ? And a 2 car 153 apparently can't work it? So what will replace the 150s? Hopefully they'll put the 153s on the back of the 2 car trips on the Chase line!

2/150 and 1/153 on the Marston Vale will be replaced by 2x1/153.
I assume the 150 on Birmingham to Hereford will be replaced by 2/153.
No doubt the fourth 153 will be used on Cov-Nun

Number five and number six, I can't say.

Adrian Shooter of course is not an impartial reporter.
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As for the 153 v 150 business surely common sense answer is for LM to keep the 150s and loan the 153s to Northern, allowing Northern to strengthen twice as many trains, albeit with less seats per train.

Northern are getting rid of their 153s, so why would they want more? LM are getting more 153s to help strengthen their current services as well as replace the 150s.

Photo of tram 27 lights on my flicr site

How about giving us some links to your Flickr site when you post this sort of thing, not every one knows your Flickr username after all.