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Although quicker than by sea, and cheaper than by plane, I should imagine that it would be more expensive than by sea. It would be interesting to know the cost difference. There must be a market for shipments which are not urgent, but need to be quicker than 70-80 days on a ship. Just to...

I live in outer London and use my Freedom Pass a lot. Frankly I could afford to pay while the people who get screwed in this city are young couples who cannot afford to buy property, and pay a fortune in rent, while most oldsters are sitting on property bought years ago now worth a fortune...

Scheduled ancient monument in the way (Maumbury rings) not to mention city streets. Yeah right, very amusing. You can change at Southamption as of now. What would improve connections on the Heart of Wessex for not much money is to reinstate the southward curve from Yeovil Jn.

Surely there must be more latent demand on the Heart of Wessex line to get to the Bournemouth conurbation than to Weymouth. So how about reversing trains just south of Dorchester and sending them to Bournemouth, and passengers for Weymouth could change at Dorchester South. Indeed you could close...

Fine to watch, but essentially travelogues, not about trains

It is frequency and convenient stops that matter, not whether it is tram, heavy rail, or even guided bus. Remember when the North London Line was threatened with closure, inconceivable now that it is part of the Overground and busy all day long, yet heavy rail. A case in point is Stourbridge Jn...

It seems that bad ideas never die. We have had a revival of fundamentalist religion, now the new fascism, and then communism is back (that idiot Corbyn has called Castro a hero). If you want decent social democracy, whether it's labelled centre left or centre right, it's a constant battle...

If they are identical to the NIR class 4000 (apart from the track gauge) then it would be a MTU 6H1800R83 engine per car with a ZF Ecomat-Rail 6 speed hydro-mechanical drive similar to those on the class 172s. In this video you can hear the gear changes quite distinctly. That engine is...

Yes, that is how a modern economy works, bits and pieces from all over. Something Brexiteers seem to be unaware of. 172s being non compliant is surely just a matter of changing the specified engine, but if Bombardier are busy with other orders, then well and good.

Why did they go for CAF, I wonder, rather than Bombardier. Irish conditions are probably not as demanding as the UK, and LM seem to do alright with 172s. Also it would be nice to buy (at least some part) British rather than Spanish. They all have MTU engines, but at least that is now owned by...

It depends if the current post Brexit bounce to the economy (fuelled by a weak pound) is not sustained. As PM May seems obsessed with immigration, which precludes single market access and leads to "hard Brexit", then the resulting economic damage would indeed be bad for the railways, lower...

Oh, for the peace and quiet of loco/power car hauled coaches... What, in your experience, is the best and worst DMU for noise levels and vibration? Worst IMHO is class 150, best is 180 (even quieter when they break down...)

Don't the SNCF run at 140mph (225 km/h) with flashing greens with TGVs on some conventional lines - on parts of the Tours-Bordeaux line, I think. Amazed that they get up to that speed on 1500V DC power. I don't think TVM is installed, conventional signalling?

If the Scots do vote No, it will despite rather than because of the negative No campaign. Good parody tonight on the "Mock the Week" TV comedy show: Yes: "I'm leaving" What "No" might have said: "Dont go, we have had a brilliant relationship" What "No" did say " You'll be nothing without me"

Yet lots of Indian/Pakistani people get away with referring to whites as "goras" in a clearly racist way... More the point, we Crystal Palace supporters, after losing the best manager we ever had, now have to make do with a 65 year old retread. Last season was a mirage, looking at the...

Turnout, how the don't knows break - and whether people have been lying to the posters. UK polls now make an allowance for "hidden Tories" because people don't want to admit that they are voting for the "nasty" party. Might be the same for the (unpatriotic) No vote If Scotland does vote no and...

Poor road access to Church Fenton, just B roads

8% of men are red-green colour blind, so it is not a small minority. Red for stop is good, but it is a shame that green was chosen for go, blue would have been better. That applies to the roads, too, where colour blind people can drive and that must have caused some accidents (you can't...

Matlock to Buxton. As far as I know, the trackbed and tunnels are all in good nick. The biggest benefit would be Bedford to Cambridge, or at least to join the ECML slow lines at Sandy and then via Hitchin. Some of the trackbed is built over, at Sandy especially, and nothing seems to be happening.

Isn't a remaining ECML bottleneck the double track section between Fletton and Holme? Was always puzzled why this was only two tracks, built over difficult and sinking fen perhaps?