News
(for Newsletters,
please see Newsletters
page)
Our new WTUA
email address
You can now send
your transport concerns or comments to the WTUA committee by email using
address wirraltua@gmail.com
Our Website
- A summary of the
2019 AGM Chairman’s Report has been added to those of earlier years on the
Past
Trips and Events web page.
- The 2019
NewsLetter has been issued to members and is now available on the Newsletters
web page.
Future Trips
We are looking at
running an excursion in 2020. The trip date will be notified to members by
email or letter.
New Trains
being built for Merseyrail
The first of the
new trains for the Merseyrail network has just been delivered from the factory
in Switzerland. It is based at the Kirkdale Depot and will running of the local
network for testing.
An excellent
description of the improved features is given in https://www.merseyrail.org/about-merseyrail/new-trains.aspx
Also see New
Train Prototype to see a movie and photos of a prototype of one car of a
new train set, taken when it was exhibited at the Pacific Road Sheds in
Birkenhead in autumn 2018.
The new units
incorporate many improvements. The door steps are extendible which permits
level access from platform to train, thus making it easier for older people to
embark and disembark and rendering the use of ramps for wheelchairs no longer
necessary. Passenger capacity of each train is increased by 50% and free wifi
access is available.
Notes
- As for all
holders of personal data, the Association has to conform to the new
legislation enacting the General Data Protection Regulations. Two new
pages have been added to the website- one outlines our Personal
Data Protection Policy (as per the GDPR act), the other provides a
facility for Members and other Activity Participants to email their consent
for the WTUA to hold their details and also to contact them.
- The Trip pages
(which each contains pictures and movies of one of the trips, thumb-nailed
in a grid) have all had their working enhanced so that the contained
pictures and movies can be more easily accessed in a ‘gallery’ manner. For
instructions on how to use this new feature, see the Trip Photos/Movies
section on the Past
Trips and Events web page.
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