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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    I can't link to it as it is behind a paywall, but surprised that there is no discussion on this thread about yesterday's article in the Sunday Times which says that the TRU project is £1.5bn under budget and will be delivered 4 years early (in 2037)! A load of PR guff which seemed to bear little...
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    Speeding up slow journeys between London boroughs

    I can't see much similarity between a tree-lined Paris boulevard and the Cromwell Road to be honest.
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    Speeding up slow journeys between London boroughs

    A real shame???!!! Have you looked at the plans for the ringways that were proposed in the 60s? They would have involved massive destruction in South London and turned it into a dysfunctional car-dependent hellhole
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    Poor boarding experience at Euston (11/03)

    Why do they close the platform 7 mins before departure? I often arrive for long-distance journeys with 5 mins to spare and have never seen this.
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    London Buses Discussion

    Seems to be affecting other local routes as well. I've seen route 57 and 131 services also with paper stickers for the route number and no destination blind. While I'm on the subject of the 57, the service has been quite frankly appalling for months on end now. Often gaps of 25 mins on a high...
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    Pre-nationalisation schemes that never happened

    I always thought the 8th track was lost when the Eurostar flyover was built.
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    Why don't East Midlands Trains stop at St Albans?

    St Albans to Sheffield via London is no more complex than St Albans to Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol etc - all of which are via London. Ok so it's galling to backtrack but this happens all over the network - living in SW London, I often have to travel "wrong direction" via Clapham...
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    Brighton to Manchester route?

    From autumn 85 until summer 86 I lived in a university hall of residence in Swaythling with a fantastic view of the line into Southampton. My memory is that practically all the inter cities to Poole were air con by then.
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    Train Leasing Profits Treble, £400,000,000 dividends

    41.6% is a mouth-wateringly high net margin, I can't think of any other industry (even professional services, law, merchant banking) where margins would be so high.
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    ASLEF Strike LNER & Northern 1st March

    The dispute might be legitimate but the travelling public may view the response from the unions (i.e. strike action) to be disproportionate. It appears to a non-railway professional that the unions like nothing better than flexing their muscles and calling a strike. This has been going on so...
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    June 2024 Timetable Change

    A timetabled relief service, just like the old days!
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    UK rolling stock in 2044

    If the 701 rollout doesn't kick up a gear, then the 455s will probably still be around !
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    Grand London Express

    The old X26 (now SL7) Croydon-Sutton-Kingston-Heathrow would be a very useful rail route. Totally impractical to engineer it of course.
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    Lines That Should Exist

    I'd build a new line (mostly in tunnel) from just south of Leeds on the Woodlesford line (around the M1/M621 interchange maybe) to somewhere near Church Fenton. This would relieve the eastern approach to Leeds and avoid the bottleneck at Micklefield junction. Send all Leeds to York trains that...
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    St Pancras - could the layout be improved for Eurostar?

    That's unbelievable, where did they envisage them all going to? I can see a market for a second Paris train in some hours, a few extra Lille/Brussels plus maybe 6-8 per day in total to Basel/Geneva/Zurich/Cologne/Frankfurt/Munich. Plus seasonal services to Bordeaux, Avignon and the ski resorts...
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    St Pancras - could the layout be improved for Eurostar?

    You'd think that at some point someone has to bite the bullet and sort out the sub-optimal mess that St Pancras has become. Not just for Eurostar but for East Midlands services as well. It is crazy that the Channel Tunnel has paths for (I think) 4 or even 5 passenger services every hour yet we...
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    Avanti WC down the pan again

    Arrived at Euston at 14.10 today for the 14.30 to Glasgow, showing as cancelled on the board. Staff said to catch the 15.30 so I diverted to Starbucks to wait. Now checking the respective arrival times on RTT for my delay repay claim, it seems there was a last minute reinstatement of the 14.30...
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    Trains skipping stations when they are less than 5 minutes late

    As per my earlier post, the turnarounds at Shepperton are tighter than any of the other SWR suburban routes, even tighter than Hampton Court and Chessington which, being the shortest, tend to be the most reliable. Some of the Guildfords have very long turnarounds but I think this is a...
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    Trains skipping stations when they are less than 5 minutes late

    SWR are notorious for this, it regularly causes passengers on the branch lines to be 30+ mins delayed e.g. on the Shepperton branch it seems to be operating procedure to divert via Putney after any delay, thus missing out all the stops on the Wimbledon/Kingston stretch. Not great when your...
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    [Trivia] Passenger Trains That Often Carry No Passengers For Entire Route

    I've been on the last train on the Cobham line in the London direction, even on a Fri/Sat night it is virtually empty so I imagine earlier in the week when it only runs as far as Wimbledon then it is a ghost train.

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