Recent content by A0wen

So not a Buxton to London service then which is what you were saying would be a benefit a couple of posts back. Buxton currently is 1 change from London (at Stockport) or a short journey the Macclesfield, another railhead for London. All you're suggesting is adding another by changing to the...

Would you like to explain how Buxton will have a direct connection to London without a time consuming reversal ? IIRC the Midland London - Manchester services didn't serve Buxton. A *far* more effective way to link Buxton to London would be a coach rail link to Macclesfield which is 11 miles...

Well quite. Especially as the biggest increases in motoring costs occured between 1997 and 2010 - so unless the OP is contending that the last Labour government was governing to deliver a "society run by and for the rich and powerful." it is a bit conspiracy theory-esque.

For the MK to Leicester, slightly more expensive but still relatively cheap is the train from MK to Nuneaton (£11.60 return) which only takes 35 mins. From Nuneaton it looks like both Stagecoach (148) ot Arriva (158) run to Leicester which would currently be £2 each way. Alternatively an off...

ISTR this was discussed before and they envisaged 'high speed' limited stop longer distance services with shorter distance stoppers plus freight on a 2 track railway. All of which ignores the expertise of those on this board such as @The Planner who have pointed out more times than I care to...

Yep - almost certainly. Look at the A5 through Milton Keynes, of the A40 through High Wycombe or the A4 through Reading and Slough - long distance traffic isn't using those roads, that'll be on the M1, M40, M4. Given there are 40m full driving licence holders in the UK and 8m holding...

A local rag giving undue prominence to a bunch of crayonistas - in this case MEMRAP. They are a bunch of amateurs, they don't have buy in from the local authorities or anything like it. It's a damning indictment of the current standards of local journalism that they don't even do some basic...

Bit in bold - except most of that traffic will be local traffic - exactly the kind of traffic the train *can't* take, because they are short, point to point journeys. And your criticisms of "individualism" are misplaced - societies which limited individualism in favour of some kind of...

Well to increase government subsidy in order to reduce fares would mean increasing taxes. Since rail has about a 10% modal share that would mean all taxpayers being hit with a bill to subsidise a small minority - and given rail tends to be used by the better off, because of the nature of the...

22 miles according to TheTrainline https://www.thetrainline.com/train-times/congleton-to-manchester#:~:text=It%20takes%20an%20average%20of,22%20miles%20(36%20km). But you have to buy the railcard (£30) and the £7.30 is only Super Off Peak - so its not a valid comparison because there isn't a...

Bit in bold - and the passenger demand on the railways for end to end London - Scotland journeys would barely fill a Cl 158 if the services were non stop. The reality is the Anglo Scottish services cover many flows, the numbers using them end to end is a minority.

Rechecked - the figures you're quoting are 'Super Off Peak' - the figure I've quoted is the standard Off Peak Day Return. The Super Off Peak is much more restrictive. I don't think there are any 'advances' available Welwyn Gdn City to Kings X ?

The elephant in the room, which is being ignored, are the reasons the Network Railcard was introduced. Fares in the South East are *much* higher than those in the north - even where there weren't PTEs involved. To give an example - Welwyn Garden City (WGC) is 20 miles to Kings Cross (KX)...

Well, it is down to the promoters of such schemes to produce a viable business case - that many of them fail to do this tells you alot about the viability of such schemes. It's not for the DfT or government to deliver the benefits case.

But not standardised - 6 different designs with different engines, electrical systems and even transmissions - hardly standardised.