(29 Aug 2013, 8:13 pm)Adam Malarkey wrote I agree there some ridiculous ideas, a few i'll admit by myself personally, but unlike others I don't go Bish Bash Bosh Wheyhey New Route Done, I'll post and see what people think.
I'll go through Timetables Old and New on Simplygo.com or if I have a paper copy I'll use that, or i'll go on the NEB Bygone Era to find what i'm looking for before planning out a suggestion. Take my Q3 suggestion for example I spent few days working on that idea, trying to find the best way for it to work along with other ideas I have came up with over the past few months. And some like the Q3 get a good reaction from other members, whereas others not so much and may need a little tinkering from other members to find the best outcome.
Overall I think this is a great thread, even if it is pretty much all fantasy, but there some cracking suggestions pop up here and there by users of this forum. And i'm certainly going to keep on trying to come up with new ideas even if there not that good or need work on them.
One thing I can say about you Adam, you are enthusiastic, and you come across as enjoying putting thought into your suggestions even if they do seem to go into fantasy land at times, you come up with some decent ideas
(29 Aug 2013, 8:29 pm)Andreos1 wrote Wait until Fencehouses forms the North East hub for HS2!
Ms Hodgsons metro project will pale into insignificance, no matter how many column inches she gets in the Washington Star
Wonder what the NIMBYS of Fencehouses will say to HS2
(29 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm)big mac wrote I believe GNE have gone a bit too far in their obsession with having high frequency routes on a relatively small number of services. It is, of course, impractical to ever think that you'll have a direct link to anywhere in the North East from a certain location, but there's a pretty high number of direct links that have been lost in recent years which passengers would have found useful. Not everyone travels between points on the high frequency routes.
Could links not be created/reinstated by merging services, take the 61 for example on Sundays it interworks with 2A/C would it not be pratical to take those 2 services and create a Murton-Washington service, people may not use it for the whole route, but people would still use it between Murton and Park Lane and Park Lane and Galleries, and was wondering if services could be merged along these lines