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It might, but there are local service buses which do that job pretty well, running every 20 minutes. However, there are normally a few of the Carlisle trains which run to Lancaster, I'm not sure why they can't terminate at Ulverston rather than Barrow to offer something of a service. The big...

This seems like the etymological fallacy. Whether the origin of the word 'man' is in its use to refer to humanity or in specific reference to the male gender, it is now heard widely enough to mean 'male' - including when used to refer to humanity as a whole - that it is better to avoid its use...

I notice that the 06:15 from King's Cross has set off for Edinburgh, due to arrive at 11:15 and is the earliest planned arrival into Edinburgh today

I can't imagine there's many on the 05:57 Newcastle to Chathill most days. This blogger rode it back in 2014 when it was the 05:55 and he was the only passenger. There's also the infamous services between Ryde St John's and Ryde Esplanade. 3 minutes, from St John's to Esplanade in the morning...

To be honest for Durham I'm much more interested in a better spread of services than the raw number per hour. At the moment, our three southbound services are squashed into a 15 minute period within each hour, followed by a 45 minute gap. This means some services end up packed, while others...

I don't know if it should be a new thread because it's different disruption, but as it compounds on yesterday it may fit here. This has happened again and someone was hit by a train between Northallerton and York, I think by 1S29 0543 Leeds to Edinburgh. Nothing has moved between the two...

Attached is a box and whisker chart of 22-23 entry and exits as a percentage of 18-19, ie, the last full pre-pandemic year. I've removed new stations or those with data missing for any reason. It shows a mean average of 77.5% use in 22-23 compared to 18-19. The mean is slightly higher than the...

Presuming that the data is accurate, I'm definitely in the "would rather know" camp. It could be about making sure you go to the loo, or deciding not to buy a coffee, or preemptively sorting your bags a little. It could be about deciding to take a later service. It could simply be about...

The idea of trying a different approach towards strikes is an interesting one. As someone who commutes on the ECML, two of the three TOCs I use will be running every day, and the one which provides the most seats - LNER - are only striking on the weekend. So my personal disruption is likely to...

in relation to 'laziness', I think the point is that because it is a lower priority duty, it is the sort that a 'diligent' guard will almost always find a way to do, a 'normal' guard will usually do when possible, and a 'lazy' guard will let those higher priority duties fill their time. I'm sure...

It's hard to think what services could use the Leamside line if it were reopened. The issue being that any services would still hit capacity issues south of Ferryhill, so there's no new long distance services that could be added. It could form part of the T&W Metro, though you think that would...

Return commute Durham - Newcastle today, 18/07/23. Out 08:21, return 16:26. Both LNER Azumas. Monthly season ticket. Trains more or less on time both ways (we left Durham 1 minutes late, but I didn't closely check arrival times at either). Enough space for me to sit on my own in a pair of...

Regularly on my commute between Durham and Newcastle, particularly pre-Covid when the service was almost at 'turn up and go' levels of 5 trains an hour. During disruption a few times a year I'd find myself on a severely delayed service by a few hours, but which actually showed up 5 minutes...

While we're mentioning Barrow a bit, there's a Sunday morning service which terminates at Carnforth which strikes me as odd. It turns around to form a Carlisle service so presumably it's about the location of trains, drivers and other staff but the next two onward services from Carnforth are...

You're right; it's there now but I could have sworn at the time that when I checked this, it wasn't showing Anytime options for the later Off-Peak service. Of course, really it should be able to sell me a ticket for the train that I wanted to use without me having to 'trick' the system by...

By chance, I had a circumstance yesterday where the LNER TVMs and App at Durham wouldn't sell me the cheapest available ticket for the next train. It was a late running TPE morning service, and I wanted an Anytime TPE Only Single from Durham to Newcastle. There were no other TPE peak services...

It would be interesting to understand if there's a correlation between income and use of ticket offices. I would hypothesize that under a certain income level (which would be more concentrated in eg Middlesbrough) use of ticket offices would be higher because of: (1) a correlation between...

Chronotrains is a useful tool - it's not an official one at all but it seems to work well. Enter your station and a maximum travelling time and it will show you where you can go to. There is also a map of all stations, with lines coloured by train company. It's not perfect necessarily in...

This is certainly what happens at my local large station, Newcastle (I mean it's not fixed at 3 minutes or nay particular time as far as I know, but I've seen staff use common sense on multiple occasions when very busy and just open the barriers). LNER are pretty good at these sort of things and...

Not having used Stansted regularly: what sort of delay are we talking about as typical here? Is 20 minutes regular? The general weekly maximum? The max it has been at peak time on the first day of the School holidays? How often is it longer than 5 minutes?