Recent content by Goldfish62

I think you're right.

Indeed - and mobiles can take excellent photos these days!

Great capture!

As someone who grew up in the far south west in the 60s and travelled by train "up country" regularly to visit relatives I have learned something new! I never ever saw any Hymeks that far SW. Photos of them in such locations are very rare as well. Wonder why that is. Anyway, there's no Hymek...

It requires capital funding. That is the issue I'm trying (unsuccessfully it appears) to get across.

It would be an odd and very expensive way to increase revenue when the simple method of simply introducing an evening peak fare exists. I think the point I was making in my earlier past is being fundamentally misunderstood. In order for the DfT to save the money required by the Treasury, in...

That's good. There's been a bit of a shortage lately.

They don't need contactless to introduce evening peak fares.

Looking at the map and the key I think we can probably safely assume that the lines in grey are simply not going to happen given the DfT funding position and the announcement earlier this week that several unrelated rail projects have been "paused", ie scrapped.

It's certainly true that trains can get quite heavily loaded at St Erth in the summer with passengers having had a day out in St Ives. Can be the same in the mornings in the opposite direction - big tip-out at St Erth for St Ives.

TfL was expecting the revenue grant from central government to be phased out over a few years, and this was incorporated in their business plans. However, in March 2018 the grant was summarily removed with virtually no notice, a move that went completely unchallenged by then-mayor Johnson. This...

These old notices, which are at least a couple of decades out of date and advertise long-defunct organisations, somehow manage to survive on the 458/4s. The photo is of a passenger information notice which as well as being a South West Trains notice, advises passengers to contact "London...

Woohoo!

With the greatest of respect I think those of us who use the services at various times of day throughout the year have a greater insight into loadings.

Thanks - really interesting stuff.