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We are meant to have decarbonised the whole of the UK 10 years after TRU is delivered. Interesting. Let’s hope our ambition is more significant in other areas that it is in terms of TRU delivery. It is nuts really bearing in mind the project should have expected a significant dividend from the...

It is tricky one, Bradford being a city that is big enough to warrant direct London services. Equally I wonder if there is appetite for services to stations north of York. However, just don’t get why they can just use the infrastructure as is. That is what the long platform was built for...

Exactly. Don’t get me wrong, I really don’t begrudge Bradford investment. The city has been stripped of two great stations and left with two stations the relevant planners should be ashamed of. However, as they are not coming back and there must be lots of better things to spend £24 million...

I don’t see why they can’t go for something a bit more like this.

I still think is a massive shame they have never found a way to integrate the dark arches into the station, for taxi/drop off and for an expanded concourse. Something St Pancras style would be great. The Southern entrance could have been so much less convoluted as well.

Ha, an often debated point in Huddersfield. Certainly a juxtaposition with the station building. I think the main roof would look really good with the hole filled in and lighter interior cladding. The whole platform area would feel a lot better with something to stop the wind from the...

Agreed! The one thing I find confusing at Farringdon is the super time restricted exit times on the Turnmill St exit. It seems crazy to me not to encourage as much traffic as possible out of/into that exit to reduce footfall at the other end of the platforms where space is quite restricted and...

Is anybody else finding the area from the top of the escalators to the gate lines sub-optimal? Bearing in mind this a very expensive rebuild the gateline queue seems as bad as ever if not worse. Is the problem the lack of obvious route through to the left hand gates I wonder. It all just...

Quite. The interchanges will be fun as well, bearing in mind the Elizabeth line does not intersect with the Victoria line or the Piccadilly Line . Some already very busy stations are going to be a mess and disbursal throughout London clumsy. Good job it doesn’t go anywhere useful at the...

Interesting, thank you! I had no idea about this complication with rust on the rails.

Out of interest, how easily does rust shift? Will one train do it or does it take quite a few (and does it depend on how long the rust has been there for?)

Usually about 1 minute before the close the gate line ;) As for the screens - name me another enclosed public space as chaotic as mainline terminal that has anything approaching the scale and motion of the new advertising screens at Euston. Yes the brightness is one problem, but it is only...

Exactly. So what happens is now is you enter and are forced to enter the very small middle scrum area to find out anything about trains departing. Previously you just looked up. As the middle scrum gets more scrum like it takes people longer to get into and out of it. That causes backing up at...

I don’t use it that often, maybe I have just been unlucky. Oh they love their new ticking time bomb toy at Euston. If they had their way I suspect they would announce the trains by telling you they have already left. Things would change pretty quickly if somebody told them they must leave 15...

Oh I definitely agree the over-zealous nature of ticket enforcement is ridiculous - especially from an industry that does not deliver a good enough product in terms of on time trains with the correct number of carriages. The one ticket that does seem to be respected and provides flexibility to...