Roger Ford (@Captain

Roger Ford

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Roger Ford

@Captain_Deltic

Industry & Technology Editor: Modern Railways.

Joined February 2010

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Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
Jul 8, 2023
York yesterday at 10.00 These are not pensioners without mobile phones, or people with disabilities. Just normal day-to-day travellers, of all ages, who want advice before buying their ticket. Only 2 people using the 4 TVM
Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
Nov 16, 2023
From a DfT press release: “Taxpayers contributed £1000 per household to protect train drivers’ jobs during the pandemic.” And I thought it was to keep the railway running so that essential workers could get to their jobs, and freight trains could still run.
Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
Mar 12, 2022
If a buyer can't be found for Chelsea FC, isn't the obvious solution to transfer the company to DfT's Operator of Last Resort?
Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
Apr 5, 2023
Chiltern is saying please don't travel because we are going to be so busy with the Nuneham Viaduct closure. If we had a proper Integrated railway, extra rolling stock would have been brought in and max length trains would be running a max frequency Oxford Shuttle service.
Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
Jul 27, 2022
According to Shapps the £16bn support for the railway was all about protecting railway workers jobs at a cost of £160,000 per head. Nothing to do with keeping vital rail services running for essential workers then?
Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
Feb 18, 2023
Replying to @Captain_Deltic
Don't want to over-dramatise, but the only interpretation for this change is anti-democratic
Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
Aug 31, 2023
I'm waiting for the re-branding of the armed forces as Great British Army, Great British Navy and Great British Air Force.
Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
May 15, 2019
In a DfT press release Grayling says thousands of new trains are being introduced. Listen carefully Minister , a single passenger coach is a vehicle. If you join several vehicles together they become a train. These highly technical terms are not interchangeable.
Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
Jun 23, 2022
A thought for our troubled times. In 1992, when British Rail was battling the recession and under pressure to cut costs, Intercity Director John Prideaux told @Modern_Railways "cutting 10% of train miles cuts 10% of revenue but nothing like that percentage of costs".
Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
Aug 16, 2024
Today's train driver "inflation busting pay-deal" bashing article in the Daily Telegraph is written by Tom Harris, who I vaguely remember as a Transport Minister in the dim and distant past. Well, certainly dim.
Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
Nov 8, 2020
Perhaps we should see if we can get Marcus Rashford to campaign for a rolling programme of electrification ?
Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
May 25, 2025
Just to remind everyone that when DfT says GBR is coming "soon", they still don't have a schedule for its creation. Let alone its management structure.
Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
Jun 29, 2022
Replying to @Captain_Deltic
Fact : The East Coast Main line has modern four aspect colour light signalling from the mid-1970s which is now life expired. Peterborough itself has digital interlockings installed in 2003. So who fed DfT this "Victorian" nonsense?
Roger Ford
@Captain_Deltic
Nov 26, 2021
Good to be presenting the spanners live again.