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I think it is correct to say that Walton-on-the-Naze and Frinton-on-Sea would require changes at Kings Cross, Liverpool Street and then either Colchester or Thorpe-le-Soken. Similarly, stations on the Sudbury branch would necessitate a change at Marks Tey as well as the London transfer. (I know...

Could you maybe get a bus to Lewisham instead of Woolwich, then take the DLR and change to the Elizabeth line at Canary Wharf (however inconvenient that particular interchange is) or Stratford? On past strike days, GWR have run rather more than a skeleton service betwen London and Oxford for...

Budapest had this arrangement in place last year

It's an essentially self-contained network (Liverpool St trains notwithstanding) that works well, the passenger capacity issues at Fenchurch St and (perhaps more obviously at) West Ham are of note though. I'd have thought that anything that was likely to reduce the high rates of punctuality...

I put in for a claim with Avanti (concerning a train that had been cancelled on the day, resulting in a 60 minute delay) on 9 March. It was approved on the 11th, the money was in my account on the 14th.

Maybe, but the thought of both living and going to school in Tilbury....would make me shudder more....

The X35/67 extension had a hard winter - there is one particular point on the road between Wantage and Stanford that is prone to flooding even without extreme weather....and this winter it has been flooded a lot, often resulting in a shuttle operation running in a rather convoluted route between...

Within Greater London (but only just), probably Home Farm Cottage, North Ockendon, on the 347, unless there is a more remote spot I'm forgetting in the Downe/Biggin Hill area on the right side of the border...

As the TOC on which split ticketing is arguably most advantageous (Cross Country) does not operate any ticket offices, I wonder if they might take legal action (I'm not sure on exactly what grounds) if they felt that the actions of other TOCs, which do operate ticket offices, by offering split...

I found a tram stop in Nantes named after Bobby Sands! I don't care much for most of these names, but it could have been worse.

There actually two Liberty shopping centres in Romford, and have been for about 35 years; and a school named after the Royal Liberty too. Not only is half of the name of the "Windrush" omitted (as not fitting a presently trendy political agenda) but so is half of the name of the Mildmay...

I've seen that in operation a few times recently. Last Saturday it was only operating when I was there in the morning though - by the time I returned in early evening both ways in and out of Crossrail were two-way traffic.

Among a dire (and shrinking) set of options, the Spotted Dog would almost certainly be your best bet in Barking. Just to the left of the station, on the corner of Wakering Road. I can't think of any that would warrant even a slightly longer walk...

Liberty is the one that does have an unambigious, clear, and enduring historic and geographic link with the area it serves: the Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower. (TfL's justificiation is drivel, of course, and overlooks that most people who have lived in the area for any length of time don't...

In a word, no. People are capable of taking responsibility for their own actions.

Numbers would have been so much better.... I can see the local relevance of the name of the Liberty line (it being located within the historic jurisdiction of the Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower, also politically that area is largely wildly libertarian and right-wing nowadays...). The NLL runs...

The Avanti website says yes. https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/

I think be this must be from CO/CP or R or Q stock: C stock never reached Upminster, for example. One oddity is that Bromley-by-Bow is shown as Bromley , despite its renaming (1967?) occurring before the Victoria line reached Victoria. The dots to indicate interchange with British Rail might...

In principle (I don't know about the technicalities) a station at Meole Brace might well be very useful, as the area round about is now a major focal point of the south of the town. Just a pity it's not on the Birmingham line!

I suppose learning how to say "See it, say it, sorted" in a multiplicity of languages would have a certain utility...of frustation, mostly. But in short: other than in exceptional cases (airports, maybe ports, and I suppose Bicester Village as things stand), I would say generally not. In...