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With a new tunnel from OOC to Clapham Junction? No need to bring the WLL line into it, which in any case already seems to be at capacity with overloaded local services. Along those lines, I've long thought that you could solve a lot of problems by diverting the Chiltern mainline to OOC and...

Ah OK. So those trains (the short-lived/proposed Bristol superfasts) are not coming back any time soon - not without some new infrastructure to enhance capacity between London and Slough then 8-)

Looking at the results for Bury North, from 1986 into the 1990s and 2000s, that seat was remarkably bellweather - not only being won by the same party that won each general election, but with a % majority that invariably closely matched the winning margin in the country. But since then, the seat...

Depends a bit where the High Speed line rejoins the existing line. North of Newton Abbot and it probably wouldn't save more than 5 minutes max. North of Totnes maybe a bit more. But the most useful option, a High Speed line most of the way to Plymouth, could knock half an hour off the journey...

Realistically places like Westbury and Castle Cary would be better served by an hourly semi-fast London to Exeter calling at OOC, Reading, Newbury, all stops between Bedwyn and Taunton, then Wellington and Cullompton when they open. Then your idea would work well and the existing West Country...

I would have imagined something like this (with the black section being tunneled). This doesn't require any additional Western branch, just re-routing the line (with the Central Line OOC platforms coinciding roughly with the main entrance to OOC station - that might not be exactly where I've...

The problem with that is you really don't want to encourage more people to make short Reading-London journeys on the GWR long distance trains. Those trains are intended for and as I understand it already often full with people travelling much longer distances.

It's generally impossible to provide a service to ANY station without stopping the trains there

As a little aside to this, a while back a Chinese friend asked me to explain the related phrases It's fine and It's OK, because she was confused about whether they meant, yes or no. While trying to explain I realised the source of her confusion: The phrases can mean either, depending on the...

Actually the Central Line is above ground in the vicinity of OOC and there's plenty of land available along most of the likely alternative route, since it's mostly park, so the cost of diverting it should be reasonable. It would probably mean you'd either lose or have to move East Action station...

Agreed. It's a shame that, amongst the vast cost of HS2, they couldn't find a bit of extra money to reroute the Overground (and also the Central line) so they could make a direct interchange. Both of those would be expensive in absolute terms but peanuts compared to the overall HS2 construction...

I assumed that was kinda the point of the OP's question. Why not build HS2 platforms at Paddington instead of a new station at OOC (may have required the HS2 tunnels to take a different route in that area)? That way you get all the same connectivity - in fact better connectivity because HS2...

Yeah. I'm actually somewhat surprised that anyone even leaves the panniers themselves on the bike. I wouldn't dream of leaving anything that's easily detachable on my bike when it's left in a public place.

One of the ironies for safety about those crossings has to be that they are only about half a mile from Abergele and Pensarn station, so the trains shouldn't be going too fast there... except that that is the only station between Flint and Llandudno Junction that the fast trains don't stop at! :D

This one...

More correctly, all those rules have both good and bad consequences and it's often a value judgement whether you find the balance negative or positive. However, both experience and economic theory show that controls on prices (which is what rent and wage controls amount to) tend to be...

Where does OBR state that economic activity was reduced by 5% due to Brexit? I had an extensive look round the link you provided, and also followed through it's references to the 2023 report but couldn't see any such claim on it. What do you mean by worsening continuing into the future? You'd...

Confirmed the super-offpeak is valid. I've managed to get a screenshot of LNWR's own website offering me a super-offpeak ticket for travel on the 19:13 train - albeit for tomorrow rather than yesterday, since you can't buy tickets for past dates :-)

Interesting. Which foot crossings are those? I just had a look on Google maps and couldn't see any. And the Towyn area seems to already have numerous footbridges over the tracks. Doesn't reflect well on the railway/the Welsh Government/whoever finances it if a much needed improvement that would...

Thanks. Just filled in the online form to request a refund 1712655256 Think that's going a little far. I wasn't treated like a common criminal - it was a polite conversation with the guard. No reason not to assume it wasn't a case of, the guard being genuinely mistaken about the regulations...