DURHAM TEES VALLEY AIRPORT - 4
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Large inbound approx 9.00 am Wed 27th
Anyone know what was the large inbound aircraft coming in to MME this morning? I'm used to the Fokker 70s coming over the Guisborough area but I'm presuming this was a troop charter? Looked to have a dark blue undercarriage so was it Monarch?
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You know the "railway station" called "Teesside Airport" that gets a train a week each way, can you actually access the airport from it, or do you have to trog all the way round to the vehicle access road by the roundabout?
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Excelsis Airways
Found these snippets.
boeing-737-300.jpg :: Excelsis Airways Livery :: Fotopic.Net
The owner: Victor Bassey - LinkedIn
Finally: Links Back between Heathrow and Durham Tees Valley
boeing-737-300.jpg :: Excelsis Airways Livery :: Fotopic.Net
The owner: Victor Bassey - LinkedIn
Finally: Links Back between Heathrow and Durham Tees Valley
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Why on earth they wasted money on a bus service when all they had to do was work with Northern rail and get most trains to stop at the airport station I'll never know.
Doesn't it seem obvious to everyone else? You have a station that can get people to the airport cheaply from most parts of the Tees Valley, and further afield with connections. And if needs be, have a mini-bus to ferry passengers to the terminal from the station.
Doesn't it seem obvious to everyone else? You have a station that can get people to the airport cheaply from most parts of the Tees Valley, and further afield with connections. And if needs be, have a mini-bus to ferry passengers to the terminal from the station.
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They all mocked Dicky when he floated his aeroplane idea naming it after his sister.
Mind you Vic had better get his skates on because he says the first flight is in July and all he has got at the moment is a chief executive ( Vic ) and a name.
Desperate as business is at the moment I don't even think that the airport is on board.
Mind you Vic had better get his skates on because he says the first flight is in July and all he has got at the moment is a chief executive ( Vic ) and a name.
Desperate as business is at the moment I don't even think that the airport is on board.
24,790 pax in April would in terms of number of pax throughput, give MME a ranking in the UK somewhere close to Scatsta in Shetland. It does at least comfortably beat other places in Shetland / Orkney like Sumburgh and Kirkwall
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With regards the station at MME. I remember the Northern Echo ran an article about the "ghost train" service, and a day or two later, BT confirmed (via the letters page) that the payphone at the station was the worst performing callbox in the country, and that the minute it broke down, it would be removed. But till then they couldnt even justify sending anyone to remove it, as it would cost more than letting it exist!
Plenty of trains pass the Teesside Airport station every day. Surely it could work even as a "request" stop.
RTG!
Plenty of trains pass the Teesside Airport station every day. Surely it could work even as a "request" stop.
RTG!
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Plenty of trains pass the Teesside Airport station every day. Surely it could work even as a "request" stop.
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Can I ask the question that given you have a railway line and station virtually on site, and haven't managed to sell it as way of getting to the airport, whatever makes you guys think Teesside is going to survive as an airport?
It takes genius levels of incometence or a deliberate running down of facilities with a view to a sale as a non going concern to achieve something so banal?
If there is a good reason that the trains don't stop, what is it?
It takes genius levels of incometence or a deliberate running down of facilities with a view to a sale as a non going concern to achieve something so banal?
If there is a good reason that the trains don't stop, what is it?
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There are never any airport passengers using the train, so the train doesnt stop. Its been like that for 25 years, people take a car to the airport so they can transport their heavy bags to the terminal with as little backache as possible. Its like that at lots of regional airports. The lack or otherwise of available trains has got nothing whatsoever to do with the failure of Teesside Airport.
There are never any airport passengers using the train, so the train doesnt stop. Its been like that for 25 years, people take a car to the airport so they can transport their heavy bags to the terminal with as little backache as possible. Its like that at lots of regional airports. The lack or otherwise of available trains has got nothing whatsoever to do with the failure of Teesside Airport.