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The station location is the rail equivalent of the Thornbury M4 / M5 Interchange road junction, so yes, it should function in that way. If it had been built in the middle of the rail clover leaf with platforms on all four sides and one in the middle for Avonmouth, it would mirror the road...

Interesting that the map on page 16 seems to be under the impression that the line from Oxford to Risborough via Thame is still open!

Are people still being paid in cash? I can hardly believe this. I'll bet they are men, if so.

I see from the artist's impressions that the new station platform will be built out over the space previously occupied by the second (removed) track. It appears that nearby newer (post-Beeching?) bridges, over or under new roads, only allowed for single track. However is this not taking no...

For most cities and larger towns, it depends on the four markets, long distance, leisure, commuting and shopping. For the first, it doesn't matter much where the station is exactly, except interchange with buses being useful. For the other three, adjacency to requirement is of paramount...

Subsequent posters seem to have missed your very helpful contribution so I hope this above will clear it up for them. We have an offence already in law, apparently, and it is potentially punishable with life improsonment. Seems fair to me.

" It should be noted that there is likely to be 25 buses travelling northbound" I hope their planning expertise is better than their grammar.

It's good you can't open a toplight nowadays, or open a door window, as I suffer from stiff necks. However, the class 444 coaches give me a stiff neck because the air conditioning is too fierce, I have wondered if the guard can control this aspect? Still, much better to have the airconditioning.

If nearly all platforms were island ones, like the shuttle from Gatwick South to Gatwick north, then its system of having the doors opposite the doors of the train and otherwise shut off from the ouside elements and provided with central seating along its length, then waiting could be made very...

Just a note on such statistics about trips. One should probably exclude trips that could not be made by rail under any circumstances, e.g. like walking down the road to the newsagents and all trips by car and other methods in areas where there is no rail within miles, or an impossibility of...

Regarding 'special mode for restarting, I assume there is a disadvantage of having it 'on' as otherwise why not make it not special and have it on all the time?

You get acompletely different set of articles if you access CNN via a vpn and pretend you are in USA. I doubt whether Americans see what we see about these matters.

I assumed it was a typo

This underwrites one of the reasons why rail is so inflexible (and I understand the reasons that you explain). If one started a bus service, you would just say to the driver (as typically on a rail replacement bus) 'drive to X' please.

OK if you work 0830 to 1700 though. :) Most people work flexi nowadays and don't forget students and WFH patterns of travel. I assume GWR did some actual market research.

Have you ever travelled on XC?. Mothers with children, grannies were my companions when I did, and they were going long distances. It's the younger couples and families that undertake long journeys by car.

Yes they do. I do. Your point may apply to those who have no choice at present but the whole idea is to get people off planes and cars.

Yes but the OP stated that whenever major remodelling is envisaged for such places, it would be stupid to perpetuate the existing inconveniences, as is not happening in Stuttgart and Vienna.

I am sure you would wish to include OOC sometimes in your stops - for the airport?

I have wrestled with so many weasel words and 'could / possibly be' in this report that I realise that there is no commitment whatsoever to anythiing that you could bank on. Here's just one example of a section and there are scores more. "Avoiding Over-Specification 5.12 The Oakervee Review...