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Could consider the 724 bus from Uxbridge to Watford Junction, then pick up a train from there to Tring. Bear in mind that Tring station is not really in Tring at all, it's almost two miles away.

They have, but they haven't actually said where this replacement trail will go and what particular standards it will be built to (gradient etc.)... and "day one" was quite a long time ago. I'm sure there are good reasons for this, such as landowner permission, but you must surely understand...

We've had threads in the past (notably about C*rm*rth*n-Ab*r*stw*th) debating whether traditional cost/benefit analysis via the DfT's TAG suite is the best way of assessing a railway reopening. For better or worse, though, it is the system currently in use. It's vanishingly unlikely, I'm...

Ah. I won’t suggest Pwllheli then. (Yes, I know you said English!)

BBC News - Pope overwhelmingly Catholic

“Sorry for the delay. We are being held at a red signal and the driver is currently in contact with the signallers to find out the reason”, or something like it, is an announcement I’ve heard more than once.

...utilities, trains, bank accounts, government. The way that local authorities have to spend endless time bidding for the latest pot of money central Government has dreamed up, rather than actually being funded to do their job, is a farce.

Because advance fares are opaque and unregulated. They can hoof the prices up by releasing tiny quotas for the lowest prices, while still claiming "fares from £7.50" or whatever.

Amazing how the phrases "HS2" and "High Speed" don't appear anywhere in Labour's document...

Nationalised railways… because having DfT calling the shots right now works so well.

It also has the problem that numerous regional lines are served only by intercity trains.

I'm sure very few people do the circuit, and Craven Arms as discussed is a bit of a one-horse town. But if the Welsh Government's strategy for improving the popularity of the Heart of Wales line is growing the tourism market, as per the new Active Travel 153s, then it does rather presume that...

There is a footpath alongside the road to Stokesay Castle, and also a path through the park round the back of the Secret Hills Discovery Centre. Arguably the path should be upgraded to be a shared-use cycleway as the A49 is horrible.

Given that Oakham has an hourly service (with some 2-hour gaps), and Harringworth Viaduct has one train per day in each direction, I think there are better candidates for electrification!

That isn't remotely true. Banbury to Oxford is a massive commuter flow and, thanks to the decimation of the XC service, many passengers use the GWR stoppers. The 1653 and 1754 departures from Oxford are both very busy trains.

In the scenario at the start of the thread: TVMs currently offer significantly greater friction, because you have to select the railcard discount at every purchase, whereas apps "helpfully" remember it for you. The issue here is not that TVMs are offering too little friction, it's that apps are.

The PDF says "There is no change proposed to today's 45-minute timetable. Introducing two trains per hour is deferred."

National Cycle Route 5.

The campaign to convert the Amlwch line into a cycle/pedestrian route appears to have stepped up recently, which is good news. Generally I'm pro-reopening but a rail service to Amlwch really isn't viable in any foreseeable horizon.

Sure, but at that point you're adding non-negligible friction for marginal gains, and the retailers will complain. (You can't actually copy and paste the number from the Railcard app at the moment, at least on iOS, though of course that could be fixed.) A dialogue which you can ignore, but...