Recent content by kevin_roche

Unfortunately, too many other things are in the way.

If you visit Cairns there is an interesting day trip to Kuranda where the train snakes up the mountain so sharply you can watch the front of the train pass you from the back of the train or vice versa.

To be honest, all the above suggestions would not interest me. Unless there is a direct train to Heathrow and OOC from Basingstoke, I'll continue to drive to Gatwick for flights and existing services to Birmingham from Basingstoke will be easier and quicker than going to Clapham then OOC to change.

Nice! Unfortunately, you spelt Guildford wrong in two places.

On that picture, the complexity of the switches is hidden by the green lines. The original is better https://assets.dft.gov.uk/publications/hs2-maps-20120110/hs2arp00drrw05305issue2.pdf

This may help. http://www.thehs2.com/phase1/locations/bcs/bcs.jpg

That is what used to happen before when there was no UK immigration facility in Amsterdam. That is what i would expect especially now that Thalys and Eurostar are merging.

Personally, I would welcome anything that reduced road traffic on the M25 around Heathrow. To have any great effect, I think there would need to be a service to Woking, but that would most likely need changes to level crossings and that will cost more with either tunnels or bridges being...

It is an awsome construction. I was diverted (by google maps) off the M25 on Sunday evening and drove under the viaduct a little further along so saw it IRL for the first time. :)

There was another suggestion of building a line via an underground station at Waterloo to Ebbsfleet. I can't remember which organisation suggested it as an alternative terminus and a way to reach HS1. If I remmber rightly is was very expensive.

While true, it wouldn't matter if something else was built instead.

I would never catch that bus to Heathrow. I caught it once (or twice if you count the return), proving to me that it was pretty awful. Even catching the bus all the way from Basingstoke is almost better. Bus transport, like all the road options, suffers from the M25 being on two sides of the...

I think if there is a through service to Paddington from Woking/Guildford/Basingstoke there will not be capacity on the GWML for an extra 4tph so would have to replace or extend the HX services.

BBC News has reported the Mayor's comments too. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66716733

I wonder if that would be possible when ETCS L2 is installed and fully operational between Paddington and Airport Junction.