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Paul March 8th 11 02:21 PM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
Saw a London United bus on route 10 parked at the terminus at Kings
Cross this afternoon. Underneath the "London United " logo was the
logo for the RATP (Regie Autonome Des Transports Parisiens) which runs
the buses, metro, trams and RER in Paris.

This was news to me, at it remains to be seen what difference French
ownership might make.

Worth noting that in Paris, two thirds of the buses stop running at
8:30pm, and only about half run on Sundays.


Paul Scott[_3_] March 8th 11 06:10 PM

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"Paul" wrote in message
...

Also the metro runs 1 hour later on Friday and Saturday nights,
finishing at 2am. How can they do this when London can't?. They must
have to do engineering work and maintenance just like London does.


Livingstone proposed it around 2005? With a later start to compensate on
Sat and Sun to keep maintainance time the same . IIRC the immediate
objections then came from the unions.
Johnson carried the proposal forward, but the plan was still impossible to
implement - by then the line upgrade plans as well as the unions were being
blamed for the lack of change.

Paul S


Arthur Figgis March 8th 11 06:58 PM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
On 08/03/2011 18:51, Paul wrote:

Purely coinicidentally, I was in Paris recently. The metro there
generally has a reputation for being more reliable the the London
Underground.


France's external reputation for transport doesn't generally stand up to
reality.

Other useful French phrases I've come across are "retard" (=departure)
and "service autocar" (=train not going to/from Paris).

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

Neil Williams March 8th 11 06:58 PM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:10:42 -0000, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
Sat and Sun to keep maintainance time the same . IIRC the

immediate
objections then came from the unions.


And I think owners of shops etc, who on a Saturday at least might
have had to travel *to* work on a night bus.

Neil

--
Neil Williams, Milton Keynes, UK

Richard March 8th 11 07:16 PM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 07:21:19 -0800 (PST), Paul
wrote:
Saw a London United bus on route 10 parked at the terminus at Kings
Cross this afternoon. Underneath the "London United " logo was the
logo for the RATP (Regie Autonome Des Transports Parisiens) which runs
the buses, metro, trams and RER in Paris.

This was news to me, at it remains to be seen what difference French
ownership might make.


Well, it's been French since 1997. Does it look like the logo on
http://www.lonutd.co.uk ? They need to "relooker" the title of the
site I think.

Worth noting that in Paris, two thirds of the buses stop running at
8:30pm, and only about half run on Sundays.


I always thought that odd, but then the geography, history, coverage
of the metro and travelling patterns are quite different.

I'm glad to hear that the logos have gone up already, I'm still
waiting to see one here. I think the RATP logo is a future classic of
graphic design. I hope it lasts as long as TfL's roundel, now making
a return on the buses, the hand that feeds should never have been
hidden away IMO. I wonder if the two can co-exist?

Richard.

[email protected] March 8th 11 08:02 PM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
On 08/03/2011 20:16, Richard wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 07:21:19 -0800 (PST),
wrote:
Saw a London United bus on route 10 parked at the terminus at Kings
Cross this afternoon. Underneath the "London United " logo was the
logo for the RATP (Regie Autonome Des Transports Parisiens) which runs
the buses, metro, trams and RER in Paris.

This was news to me, at it remains to be seen what difference French
ownership might make.


Well, it's been French since 1997. Does it look like the logo on
http://www.lonutd.co.uk ? They need to "relooker" the title of the
site I think.

Worth noting that in Paris, two thirds of the buses stop running at
8:30pm, and only about half run on Sundays.


I always thought that odd, but then the geography, history, coverage
of the metro and travelling patterns are quite different.

I'm glad to hear that the logos have gone up already, I'm still
waiting to see one here. I think the RATP logo is a future classic of
graphic design. I hope it lasts as long as TfL's roundel, now making
a return on the buses, the hand that feeds should never have been
hidden away IMO. I wonder if the two can co-exist?

Richard.

I notice that some busses have the Nederlandse Spoorwegen insignia on
them. Is DB around anywhere?

Arthur Figgis March 8th 11 09:16 PM

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On 08/03/2011 21:02, wrote:

I notice that some busses have the Nederlandse Spoorwegen insignia on
them. Is DB around anywhere?


They do own Arriva, but I've never seen the [DB] logo on a UK bus. It
was reported at the time of the takeover that DB were gong use Arriva as
their non-Germany brand.

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

Mizter T March 9th 11 12:08 AM

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On Mar 8, 7:58*pm, Arthur Figgis wrote:

On 08/03/2011 18:51, Paul wrote:

Purely coinicidentally, I was in Paris recently. The metro there
generally has a reputation for being more reliable the the London
Underground.


France's external reputation for transport doesn't generally stand up to
reality.

Other useful French phrases I've come across are "retard" (=departure)
and "service autocar" (=train not going to/from Paris).


retard is delay.

Mizter T March 9th 11 12:32 AM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 

On Mar 9, 1:08*am, Mizter T wrote:

On Mar 8, 7:58*pm, Arthur Figgis wrote:

On 08/03/2011 18:51, Paul wrote:


Purely coinicidentally, I was in Paris recently. The metro there
generally has a reputation for being more reliable the the London
Underground.


France's external reputation for transport doesn't generally stand up to
reality.


Other useful French phrases I've come across are "retard" (=departure)
and "service autocar" (=train not going to/from Paris).


retard is delay.


I see I seem to have suffered a SOH failure...!

Roland Perry March 9th 11 06:32 AM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
In message
, at
17:08:05 on Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Mizter T remarked:
Other useful French phrases I've come across are "retard" (=departure)
and "service autocar" (=train not going to/from Paris).


retard is delay.


deranged is "out of order" (sometimes seen on lifts from platform to
street).
--
Roland Perry

Paul March 9th 11 06:53 AM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
On Mar 8, 8:45*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 07:21:19 -0800 (PST), Paul
wrote:

Saw a London United bus on route 10 parked at the terminus at Kings
Cross this afternoon. Underneath the "London United " logo was the
logo for the RATP (Regie Autonome Des Transports Parisiens) which runs
the buses, metro, trams and RER in Paris.


The change of ownership only took place late last week. First report
I've heard of the RATP logo appearing on a bus.

This was news to me, at it remains to be seen what difference French
ownership might make.


Very little in the short term I would expect. Even medium to long term I
doubt much will happen with London United. RATP might try to buy out
Epsom Buses as they'd be a logical fit with London United but other than
that I would expect it to be "business as usual".

What is more interesting is that RATP have bought the Bath Bus Company
which runs sightseeing services in Bath. In former times it did compete
for tendered services and the head of the operation used to work for
First Group in the South West! *Whether RATP see it as a springboard for
taking on tendered work again or competing head to head with First
remains to be seen.

RATP also own Yellow Buses in Bournemouth - an operation transformed
under Transdev ownership.

Worth noting that in Paris, two thirds of the buses stop running at
8:30pm, and only about half run on Sundays.


To be fair the Paris bus network is vastly more comprehensive, frequent
and extensive than it used to be. *RATP and STIF realised that the
network could make a far bigger contribution and have funded expansion
for several years. I think they took part of their cue from London's
experience under the early years of Ken.

I would suggest you refresh your understanding of the Paris bus network
via this link.

http://www.ratp.fr/informer/pdf/orie...=reseaux&nompd....

No bus stops at 20.30 M-F - the time is now 22.00 and only two routes
seem to stop. *Many routes are daily and very few adopt the "barre"
system of part route operation on Sundays.
--
Paul C


I think their website must be out of date then,

If you look at http://www.ratp.fr/plan-interactif/cartebus.php, you
can select "en journee", "en soiree" or "dimanche et fetes". By
switching from one to the other, you can see which routes run in the
day, but do not run in the evenings or on Sundays. If you hover the
mouse pointer over "en soiree", it says "Afficher la carte Bus Paris
circulant apres 20:30."

Taking one example, route 20 between the Gare De Lyon and the Gare St
Lazare does not appear on the "en soiree" map. And yet the timetable
shows it running up to 1am seven days a week.

You live and learn.

[email protected] March 9th 11 11:27 AM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
In article ,
lid (Arthur Figgis) wrote:

*From:* Arthur Figgis
*Date:* Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:58:15 +0000

On 08/03/2011 18:51, Paul wrote:

Purely coinicidentally, I was in Paris recently. The metro there
generally has a reputation for being more reliable the the London
Underground.


France's external reputation for transport doesn't generally stand
up to reality.

Other useful French phrases I've come across are "retard"
(=departure) and "service autocar" (=train not going to/from Paris).

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK



Out of curiosity, I often check the RATP equivalent of the Live Update
page:
http://www.ratp.fr/informer/trafic/trafic.php
Like LU, they seem to have spells when there's problems, although LU seem
to have had a lot more recently with the Jubilee line signal system
failures.
As with the Underground, they had their spell of "accident grave de
voyageur"s after the new year

Loosely translated causes for delays a

incident technique
Technical problems

accident grave de voyageur
Person under a train

le trafic est interrompu entre .....
There is no service between ....

Les trains circulent avec des retards de XXXX minutes environ et des
suppressions ou modifications...
Trains are running about XXXX minutes late, with cancellations or changes
to destinations

Ces incidents sont à présent terminés mais les trains circulent avec des
retards de XXXX minutes environ.
These incidents have ended, but the trains are running about XXXX minutes
late

Les trains circulent avec des retards importants
The trains are running with large delays

Incident terminé à XXXX
Incident at XXXX has ended

Fin d'incident, reprise du trafic
End of incident, trains now running

Retour au trafic normal estimé vers XXXX
Return to normal running estimated at XXXX

En consèquence, les trains ne desservent pas les gares XXXX
As a consequence, the trains are not going to / stopping at stations XXXX

Le trafic est normal sur les autres lignes de XXXX
Other lines on the XXX are running normally

En répercussion du déclenchement d'un signal d'alarme en gare XXXX
Because an alarm has been operated at XXXX station

Un train en panne / En répercussion à une panne de matériel
Faulty train

incident de signalisation / panne de signalisation
Signal problems

En répercussion de divers incidents
Because of various incidents

En raison d'un incident voyageur
Because of a passenger incident / accident

En raison de la chute d'un voyageur entre deux voitures à XXXX
Because of a passenger falling between two cars at XXXX

En raison d'un colis suspect à XXXX
Because of a suspect package at XXXX

En raison d'un rail cassé à XXXX
Because of a broken rail at XXXX

En raison de la présence de voyageurs sur les voies à XXXX
Because of people on the track at XXXX

En répercussion des conditions climatiques
Because of weather conditions

En répercussion des conditions climatiques dégradées
Because of worsening weather conditions

En raison des chutes de neige, l'ensemble du réseau bus est paralysé
Because of snow, there are no buses running

Le Funiculaire est interrompu
The funinulaire (to Sacre Coeur) isn't running

and yesterday's delay on line 9 speaks for itself!
Animal sur la voie


Roger

Paul March 9th 11 11:33 AM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
On Mar 9, 12:27*pm, wrote:
In article ,





(Arthur Figgis) wrote:
*From:* Arthur Figgis
*Date:* Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:58:15 +0000


On 08/03/2011 18:51, Paul wrote:


Purely coinicidentally, I was in Paris recently. The metro there
generally has a reputation for being more reliable the the London
Underground.


France's external reputation for transport doesn't generally stand
up to reality.


Other useful French phrases I've come across are "retard"
(=departure) and "service autocar" (=train not going to/from Paris)..


--
Arthur Figgis * * * * * * * * Surrey, UK


Out of curiosity, I often check the RATP equivalent of the Live Update
page:http://www.ratp.fr/informer/trafic/trafic.php
Like LU, they seem to have spells when there's problems, although LU seem
to have had a lot more recently with the Jubilee line signal system
failures.
As with the Underground, they had their spell of "accident grave de
voyageur"s after the new year

Loosely translated causes for delays a

incident technique
Technical problems

accident grave de voyageur
Person under a train

le trafic est interrompu entre .....
There is no service between ....

Les trains circulent avec des retards de XXXX minutes environ et des
suppressions ou modifications...
Trains are running about XXXX minutes late, with cancellations or changes
to destinations

Ces incidents sont pr sent termin s mais les trains circulent avec des
retards de XXXX minutes environ.
These incidents have ended, but the trains are running about XXXX minutes
late

Les trains circulent avec des retards importants
The trains are running with large delays

Incident termin XXXX
Incident at XXXX has ended

Fin d'incident, reprise du trafic
End of incident, trains now running

Retour au trafic normal estim vers XXXX
Return to normal running estimated at XXXX

En cons quence, les trains ne desservent pas les gares XXXX
As a consequence, the trains are not going to / stopping at stations XXXX

Le trafic est normal sur les autres lignes de XXXX
Other lines on the XXX are running normally

En r percussion du d clenchement d'un signal d'alarme en gare XXXX
Because an alarm has been operated at XXXX station

Un train en panne */ *En r percussion une panne de mat riel
Faulty train

incident de signalisation */ *panne de signalisation
Signal problems

En r percussion de divers incidents
Because of various incidents

En raison d'un incident voyageur
Because of a passenger incident / accident

En raison de la chute d'un voyageur entre deux voitures XXXX
Because of a passenger falling between two cars at XXXX

En raison d'un colis suspect XXXX
Because of a suspect package at XXXX

En raison d'un rail cass XXXX
Because of a broken rail at XXXX

En raison de la pr sence de voyageurs sur les voies XXXX
Because of people on the track at XXXX

En r percussion des conditions climatiques
Because of weather conditions

En r percussion des conditions climatiques d grad es
Because of worsening weather conditions

En raison des chutes de neige, l'ensemble du r seau bus est paralys
Because of snow, there are no buses running

Le Funiculaire est interrompu
The funinulaire (to Sacre Coeur) isn't running

and yesterday's delay on line 9 speaks for itself!
Animal sur la voie

Roger- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


Of course, if you live in Paris (or anywhere else in France for that
matter) you will come to understand what "..Suite a un preavis de
greve..." means.

[email protected] March 9th 11 01:14 PM

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In article
,
(Paul) wrote:

*From:* Paul
*Date:* Wed, 9 Mar 2011 04:33:02 -0800 (PST)

On Mar 9, 12:27*pm, wrote:
In article ,





(Arthur Figgis) wrote:
*From:* Arthur Figgis
*Date:* Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:58:15 +0000


On 08/03/2011 18:51, Paul wrote:


Purely coinicidentally, I was in Paris recently. The metro

there
generally has a reputation for being more reliable the the

London
Underground.


France's external reputation for transport doesn't generally

stand
up to reality.


Other useful French phrases I've come across are "retard"
(=departure) and "service autocar" (=train not going to/from

Paris).

--
Arthur Figgis * * * * * * * * Surrey, UK


Out of curiosity, I often check the RATP equivalent of the Live
Update
page:
http://www.ratp.fr/informer/trafic/trafic.php
Like LU, they seem to have spells when there's problems, although
LU seem
to have had a lot more recently with the Jubilee line signal
system
failures.
As with the Underground, they had their spell of "accident grave
de
voyageur"s after the new year

Loosely translated causes for delays a

incident technique
Technical problems

accident grave de voyageur
Person under a train

le trafic est interrompu entre .....
There is no service between ....

Les trains circulent avec des retards de XXXX minutes environ et
des
suppressions ou modifications...
Trains are running about XXXX minutes late, with cancellations or
changes
to destinations

Ces incidents sont pr sent termin s mais les trains circulent
avec des
retards de XXXX minutes environ.
These incidents have ended, but the trains are running about XXXX
minutes
late

Les trains circulent avec des retards importants
The trains are running with large delays

Incident termin XXXX
Incident at XXXX has ended

Fin d'incident, reprise du trafic
End of incident, trains now running

Retour au trafic normal estim vers XXXX
Return to normal running estimated at XXXX

En cons quence, les trains ne desservent pas les gares XXXX
As a consequence, the trains are not going to / stopping at
stations XXXX

Le trafic est normal sur les autres lignes de XXXX
Other lines on the XXX are running normally

En r percussion du d clenchement d'un signal d'alarme en gare XXXX
Because an alarm has been operated at XXXX station

Un train en panne */ *En r percussion une panne de mat riel
Faulty train

incident de signalisation */ *panne de signalisation
Signal problems

En r percussion de divers incidents
Because of various incidents

En raison d'un incident voyageur
Because of a passenger incident / accident

En raison de la chute d'un voyageur entre deux voitures XXXX
Because of a passenger falling between two cars at XXXX

En raison d'un colis suspect XXXX
Because of a suspect package at XXXX

En raison d'un rail cass XXXX
Because of a broken rail at XXXX

En raison de la pr sence de voyageurs sur les voies XXXX
Because of people on the track at XXXX

En r percussion des conditions climatiques
Because of weather conditions

En r percussion des conditions climatiques d grad es
Because of worsening weather conditions

En raison des chutes de neige, l'ensemble du r seau bus est
paralys
Because of snow, there are no buses running

Le Funiculaire est interrompu
The funinulaire (to Sacre Coeur) isn't running

and yesterday's delay on line 9 speaks for itself!
Animal sur la voie

Roger- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


Of course, if you live in Paris (or anywhere else in France for that
matter) you will come to understand what "..Suite a un preavis de
greve..." means.


Yes, I missed that one :-) although it has been pretty quiet recently. I
think Bob Crow must go over there to get advice!

Roger

Stephen Sangwine March 10th 11 07:11 PM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
On 2011-03-08 19:58:15 +0000, Arthur Figgis said:

On 08/03/2011 18:51, Paul wrote:

Purely coinicidentally, I was in Paris recently. The metro there
generally has a reputation for being more reliable the the London
Underground.


France's external reputation for transport doesn't generally stand up
to reality.

Other useful French phrases I've come across are "retard" (=departure)
and "service autocar" (=train not going to/from Paris).


Un autocar is a coach or bus. As someone else said, retard means delay
or lateness
as in RETARD 5MN = 5 minute delay.

Steve Sangwine


Mizter T March 10th 11 09:51 PM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 

On Mar 10, 8:11*pm, Stephen Sangwine wrote:

On 2011-03-08 19:58:15 +0000, Arthur Figgis said:

On 08/03/2011 18:51, Paul wrote:
Purely coinicidentally, I was in Paris recently. The metro there
generally has a reputation for being more reliable the the London
Underground.


France's external reputation for transport doesn't generally stand up
to reality.


Other useful French phrases I've come across are "retard" (=departure)
and "service autocar" (=train not going to/from Paris).


Un autocar is a coach or bus. As someone else said, retard means delay
or lateness
as in RETARD 5MN = 5 minute delay.


Mr Figgis knows this very well...

Nick Leverton March 10th 11 09:57 PM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
In article ,
Mizter T wrote:

On Mar 10, 8:11*pm, Stephen Sangwine wrote:

On 2011-03-08 19:58:15 +0000, Arthur Figgis said:

On 08/03/2011 18:51, Paul wrote:
Purely coinicidentally, I was in Paris recently. The metro there
generally has a reputation for being more reliable the the London
Underground.


France's external reputation for transport doesn't generally stand up
to reality.


Other useful French phrases I've come across are "retard" (=departure)
and "service autocar" (=train not going to/from Paris).


Un autocar is a coach or bus. As someone else said, retard means delay
or lateness
as in RETARD 5MN = 5 minute delay.


Mr Figgis knows this very well...


I got it, although not been to Paris for far too long ...

Nick
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Tom Anderson March 11th 11 08:01 PM

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On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Mizter T wrote:

RATP London United will continue providing bus services under (quite
tightly specified) contract to TfL, just as Abellio - owned by
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (the Dutch railway company, wholly state owned) -
and Arriva - owned by Deutsche Bahn (again wholly state owned) - also
do.


Of course, we mustn't forget our own Network Rail's many highly profitable
forays into applying their considerable professional expertise overseas.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!

tom

--
Argumentative and pedantic, oh, yes. Although it's properly called
"correct" -- Huge

Tom Anderson March 11th 11 08:03 PM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Paul Corfield wrote:

I would suggest you refresh your understanding of the Paris bus network
via this link.

http://www.ratp.fr/informer/pdf/orie...s_paris&fm=gif

No bus stops at 20.30 M-F - the time is now 22.00 and only two routes
seem to stop. Many routes are daily and very few adopt the "barre"
system of part route operation on Sundays.


What's the 'barre' system? I had a google but couldn't find anything.

tom

--
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or convert it to add value, anything else is merely moving it about. --
Sir John Rose

john b March 11th 11 11:48 PM

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On Mar 12, 8:01*am, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Mizter T wrote:
RATP London United will continue providing bus services under (quite
tightly specified) contract to TfL, just as Abellio - owned by
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (the Dutch railway company, wholly state owned) -
and Arriva - owned by Deutsche Bahn (again wholly state owned) - also
do.


Of course, we mustn't forget our own Network Rail's many highly profitable
forays into applying their considerable professional expertise overseas.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!


Missing the gag here. NR's job is to own & maintain the GB rail
infrastructure, not run transport services, so it's not surprising it
doesn't operate buses in France.

Many UK-based train companies have been successful (or at least,
profitable) at running public transport overseas - Stagecoach, First
and NEG all do, and Arriva did well enough that Deutsche Bahn paid two
billion euros for them and put Arriva management in charge of all its
international operations.

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

Arthur Figgis March 12th 11 08:11 AM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
On 12/03/2011 00:48, john b wrote:

Many UK-based train companies have been successful (or at least,
profitable) at running public transport overseas - Stagecoach, First
and NEG all do, and Arriva did well enough that Deutsche Bahn paid two
billion euros for them and put Arriva management in charge of all its
international operations.


Though they is the issue that foreign state-owned[1] companies can buy
up "British" businesses, but we have no equivalent doing the opposite.
BRB Residuary isn't going to be bidding for any German operating
contracts, and while French companies can run our passenger trains,
British firms - state or private - can't run theirs. If the Arriva deal
goes wrong, will the Bundestag allow DB to go the way of GNER and NXEC?


[1] Germans often claim DB is "privatised" because it is structured as a
company rather than as a ministry of railways. By that definition, many
British nationalised industries were privately owned, not nationalised.
--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

Tom Anderson March 12th 11 09:56 AM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:03:32 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Paul Corfield wrote:

I would suggest you refresh your understanding of the Paris bus network
via this link.

http://www.ratp.fr/informer/pdf/orie...s_paris&fm=gif

No bus stops at 20.30 M-F - the time is now 22.00 and only two routes
seem to stop. Many routes are daily and very few adopt the "barre"
system of part route operation on Sundays.


What's the 'barre' system? I had a google but couldn't find anything.


Strictly there should be an acute accent on the last "e". All barré
means is that a bus does not cover the full daytime route. Barré usually
applies evenings and Sundays and the route number displayed on the bus
has a diagonal line (or slash) across it to show that barré operates.


Ah, je comprends, merci. Essentially like our N mechanism for night buses,
except that (a) without the bit where sometimes N means an extended or
altered route, and (b) applying on earlier, and on sundays. And (c) using
an overprinted symbol rather than modifying the route number. But similar
in all other ways!

If you click on the link above you will see the table of route numbers
against days / times of day at the bottom. The diagonal line is shown
under certain routes.


Oh, i thought that was a bowling scoresheet!

tom

--
A plug on its back, straining to suck voltage from the sky

john b March 12th 11 11:30 AM

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On Mar 12, 8:11*pm, Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 12/03/2011 00:48, john b wrote:

Many UK-based train companies have been successful (or at least,
profitable) at running public transport overseas - Stagecoach, First
and NEG all do, and Arriva did well enough that Deutsche Bahn paid two
billion euros for them and put Arriva management in charge of all its
international operations.


Though they is the issue that foreign state-owned[1] companies can buy
up "British" businesses, but we have no equivalent doing the opposite.
BRB Residuary isn't going to be bidding for any German operating
contracts, and while French companies can run our passenger trains,
British firms - state or private - can't run theirs.


Arriva ran lots of trains in Germany. As part of the DB deal, to avoid
breaking competition rules, they've been sold to a joint venture
between the Italian state rail operator and a French private equity
fund. It also ran trains in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Czech
Republic and Poland (and still does, although obviously now it's DB-
owned. FirstGroup still has a joint venture with the Danish state rail
operator to run trains in Sweden. National Express used to run trains
in Australia.

France is the exception, not the rule, here (and yes, the way in which
it dodges competition legislation is an outrage) - almost everywhere
else in Europe, there are plenty of trains operated by companies of
all nationalities, some state-owned, some joint ventures, and some
privately owned.

If the Arriva deal
goes wrong, will the Bundestag allow DB to go the way of GNER and NXEC?


I'm not clear what you mean here. The Bundestag would happily allow
(and would probably be breaking the law if it didn't allow) ATW, XC or
Chiltern to go the way of GNER and NXEC if they were unviable. But the
Arriva deal isn't going to affect the regulated services that DB
operates in Germany one way or another (well, it might have a marginal
impact on economies of scale, group expertise, etc, but nothing
major).

[1] Germans often claim DB is "privatised" because it is structured as a
company rather than as a ministry of railways. By that definition, many
British nationalised industries were privately owned, not nationalised.


True, it's clearly not privatised.

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

Richard J.[_3_] March 12th 11 05:47 PM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
Paul Corfield wrote on 12 March 2011 11:21:30 ...
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:56:52 +0000, Tom
wrote:

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:03:32 +0000, Tom
wrote:


What's the 'barre' system? I had a google but couldn't find anything.

Strictly there should be an acute accent on the last "e". All barré
means is that a bus does not cover the full daytime route. Barré usually
applies evenings and Sundays and the route number displayed on the bus
has a diagonal line (or slash) across it to show that barré operates.


Ah, je comprends, merci. Essentially like our N mechanism for night buses,
except that (a) without the bit where sometimes N means an extended or
altered route, and (b) applying on earlier, and on sundays. And (c) using
an overprinted symbol rather than modifying the route number. But similar
in all other ways!


Err sort of. I think the barré concept has been in existence for a very
long time so the French are very familiar with it. The only UK
equivalent I can think of is the "E" suffix used on buses in Birmingham
which indicates a short journey. I'm sure there must be others but I
can't think of any.

Paris now has quite a decent night bus network (Noctambus) and each
route is lettered rather than numbered. Not quite as frequent as some
of London's busiest routes but a welcome development given what existed
a few years ago (i.e. not much). Many of the night routes stretch out
into the suburbs and parallel the RER and Transilien rail network.


Noctambus was the old night bus network with 18 lettered routes. The
new night bus network, introduced in 2005, is called Noctilien, and has
42 numbered routes preceded by "N", e.g. N24.
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

Arthur Figgis March 12th 11 05:58 PM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
On 12/03/2011 12:30, john b wrote:
On Mar 12, 8:11 pm, Arthur wrote:
On 12/03/2011 00:48, john b wrote:

Many UK-based train companies have been successful (or at least,
profitable) at running public transport overseas - Stagecoach, First
and NEG all do, and Arriva did well enough that Deutsche Bahn paid two
billion euros for them and put Arriva management in charge of all its
international operations.


Though they is the issue that foreign state-owned[1] companies can buy
up "British" businesses, but we have no equivalent doing the opposite.
BRB Residuary isn't going to be bidding for any German operating
contracts, and while French companies can run our passenger trains,
British firms - state or private - can't run theirs.


Arriva ran lots of trains in Germany. As part of the DB deal, to avoid
breaking competition rules, they've been sold to a joint venture
between the Italian state rail operator and a French private equity
fund. It also ran trains in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Czech
Republic and Poland (and still does, although obviously now it's DB-
owned. FirstGroup still has a joint venture with the Danish state rail
operator to run trains in Sweden. National Express used to run trains
in Australia.

France is the exception, not the rule, here (and yes, the way in which
it dodges competition legislation is an outrage) - almost everywhere
else in Europe, there are plenty of trains operated by companies of
all nationalities, some state-owned, some joint ventures, and some
privately owned.

If the Arriva deal
goes wrong, will the Bundestag allow DB to go the way of GNER and NXEC?


I'm not clear what you mean here.


Can DB, Trenitalia, NS, SNCF, DSB et al call on any resources of "last
resort" which wouldn't be available to a FirstGroup or Stagecoach?

Then there is the question of regulation, where Ruritanian Railways
Holdings owns RR Infrastructure and RR Train Pathing and RR Electricity
Supplies and RR Signalling, which control not only how RR Pax and RR
Cargo's trains run, but also their competitors' trains.

There was somewhere (Germany?) where the infrastructure manager offered
a "bulk discount" on access, pegged slightly below the national
railway's use, but hugely ahead of any new operators' needs. Though I
think the EU squished that cunning plan!

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

Tom Anderson March 13th 11 12:09 PM

London Buses Run By The RATP
 
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:56:52 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:03:32 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

What's the 'barre' system? I had a google but couldn't find anything.

If you click on the link above you will see the table of route numbers
against days / times of day at the bottom. The diagonal line is shown
under certain routes.


Oh, i thought that was a bowling scoresheet!


Oh I think you might just be teasing me with that response. You're
cleverer than that.


I should have realised it wasn't - there aren't nearly enough strikes.

tom

--
It sounds very much like a rock group consisting of a drum machine and
a few 56k modems. -- Jon


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