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    Trip Report - Chislehurst to Ashford via Maidstone and Ashford to Tonbridge - 2024/04/15

    Nice shot - I've been under that blue bridge 100s of times but never seen it from the top!
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    Chesham Underground permanent closure?

    In the last few decades stations have only closed on the TfL network if there has been some sort of replacement, for example Silvertown and North Woolwich stations were 'replaced' by DLR stations.
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    Keir Starmer and the Labour Party

    I thought that was the definition of the Red Wall, that those were long standing Labour seats until 2019.
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    [DK] Best way of getting to Aarhus

    Wow, it even includes "premier ice cream desserts"! https://www.sun-air.dk/en/information/service-on-board/catering/
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    A Cambridge tube coach, is there a case for it?

    Does Cambridge also have more inbound commuting from places like Royston and Ely which help to sustain the high level of service?
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    Will we see motorail return?

    The South of France is a wide area though - it doesn't have one station which would serve the whole market.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    The MRP is interesting but really you can see the writing on the wall from the Redfield & Wilton polling of the "Red Wall" seats. In 2019 these 30-40 seats got the Tory majority over the line to 359 seats (326 being the threshold for a majority). In the 2019 election the Tories won these seats...
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    Will we see motorail return?

    Am I right that the original Motorail only operated from station A to station B or did they do intermediate stops like a normal train?
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    Which specific train journey is the most profitable in the UK?

    To put it into context, if you travelled from Stratford to Ealing Broadway in 2020 you'd most likely use the slow Central line. Now you'd use the Elizabeth line (which has higher costs) and save half the time but you're not paying a premium for it.
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    Flights you have been on

    Good result!
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    East Anglia planned pylons

    Even if there was it would be very hard to determine as everyone lives near electricity cables in their home or workplace.
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    Rerouting all Southeastern Mainline services into Victoria (and via Crystal Palace?) or Waterloo - could it work?

    Nobody wants to go to Victoria. If it didn't exist now nobody would suggest building a station there.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    I don't think Sunak is hugely popular but they really tanked in the polls during the Liz Truss "era" and haven't recovered from that. So in a way the party leader from now to the election isn't a critical factor.

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