Hydrogen vehicles

[Celestial Toymaker]

Except I can't actually see where you would build an underground line to that would be worth spending the money on.

The putting a couple of extra platforms underneath New Street for the cross city line, which is the plan @Isle of Stroma mentioned would be useful for extra capacity at New Street, but the only two other corridors out of Birmingham that would justify a new railway are Harborne & Chelmsley Wood. Chelmsley could be served by far cheaper by building a branch line off the Derby line near the old Castle Bromwich Station with stations serving Bromford and Castle Vale. If you built the extra underground platforms at New Street for the cross city, that would also allow for a short underground section to Harborne & Bartley Green.

The underground Platforms at New Street idea has been around since i was at NS back in 1990, there have been many different suggestions made but as yet nothing concrete, but, bare in mind there is a network of old Post Office tunnels beneath NS (ive seen some of them) so you would have to go very deep to get beneath them, plus there are staff only levels beneath NS aswell, then there is the Hotels that have upto 4 floors beneath ground level, i dont think it will happen in my lifetime anyway

[Tony]

H1007 & H1009 both out this morning

[PB50]

Nice to see H1020 out on a running board that's not a peak one.

[Tony]

H1012 booked to to the last 51 at 0102 tonight 

[PB50]

H1012 booked to to the last 51 at 0102 tonight

Looking at bus times it never completed the running board unless it stopped tracking.

[Ingleboro261F]

H1006 on the back of a recovery truck

[Celestial Toymaker]

H1006 on the back of a recovery truck

more mileage than most have done in ages - saves the tyres you know 

[karl724223]

more mileage than most have done in ages - saves the tyres you know 

Typical shitwreck on the back of a tow truck 😂

[cardew]

I'll won't annoy the forum on the subject any more but something is not right and it is taxpayer money.

...but then I checked the WMCA meeting and there was understandable anger at losing £13 million of ZEBRA grant.

It was said that the original bid was fronted by the bus operator, WMCA went through the risks of a large hydrogen deployment and after multiple management changes at the operator have managed to retain as much of the grant as they could.

One councillor said he could not wait for bus franchising as it was a disgrace that because the operator did not want to play ball we are losing £13 million of new ZEBRA CROSSINGS. Where do they find these people?

[j789]

...but then I checked the WMCA meeting and there was understandable anger at losing £13 million of ZEBRA grant.

It was said that the original bid was fronted by the bus operator, WMCA went through the risks of a large hydrogen deployment and after multiple management changes at the operator have managed to retain as much of the grant as they could.

One councillor said he could not wait for bus franchising as it was a disgrace that because the operator did not want to play ball we are losing £13 million of new ZEBRA CROSSINGS. Where do they find these people?

Well name one operator who would want to run these buses with the endless problems they have had, even if they could buy them at a reduced rate with this funding? 

Let me guess that councillor was likely a Labour one with the usual two brain cells not fully working when it comes to understanding  the transport industry. Franchising to them is clearly the answer to everything, yet will be the solution to absolutely nothing.

[markcf83]

Let me guess that councillor was likely a Labour one with the usual two brain cells not fully working when it comes to understanding  the transport industry.

Par for the course with a Labour politician-nothing between their ears.