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Not to the same extent, as they would alight the train and leave the platform immediately. When people are milling around waiting for 2 or 3 trains at 13/14 quite a crowd can congregate. The rail companies need to look for opportunities rather than look for objections.

As Eus-Man keeps being used as an example, there is another idea that has been much talked about in Lancashire but not it seems by the WCML. When a train arrives in Manchester, a significant number of passengers trek over to platform 14 to take a train to Bolton. This not only results in a very...

As I wanted to see a little more than the termini, we had also made a trip to Inverness using TPE/Scotrail first class at around £50 return each with railcard, but this is no longer possible at that price now. We then based our week in Inverness. The following day we took the train to Kyle but...

My sentiments exactly. I have always wanted to make more use of trains as a leisure facility, especially as so many trains are empty during the non commuting hours. It seems that those responsible for managing modern train travel are unable to see beyond trains as a means of commuting, and that...

I would agree with the connectivity bit, but connectivity has never been something the railways have done very well from my experience, especially involving 2 different companies. I say this remembering my train pulling into Carlisle regular as I watched the train I knew I could never catch...

My local station is Wigan NW and though I would personally never go to neither Blackpool nor London, the service is quite useful. A lot of people do go to Blackpool from Lancashire and Cheshire, and a pendolino offers a much more comfortable option than Northern. Also I have used the service for...

Websites that send you back to the beginning of a long search, and reset the dates etc. just by clicking the back arrow, such as many rail booking engines, but particularly Avanti. Websites that have 'All London Airports/Stations' as the default option. Emails/websites that tell me how much I...

I've thought about that, and a reckon that it's because those who make ready prepared vegan foods are trying to jump on the fashionable bandwagon (no slur intended here) without really knowing what they are doing. As long as they can legally say 'vegan' on the packet, then they have ticked the...

It's quite amazing in this day and age where food control and food quality is such a big issue, that this is allowed to happen at all. It's not as if the powers that be don't know about it. Same with many mince products having 25% fat, when it ought to be around 5%. Having made complaints to the...

I think I made it clear that: a) I did not actually pulp the owner's face, merely that I would have liked to. b) It was not the actual act of the mutt, but the owner's attitude that so aggrieved me. and also, there would be no dog owners if there were no dogs, so therefore my desire to rid the...

The term 'Regional departures available' for holidays for which I roughly translate as, 'we're doing you a great favour for allowing you to use an airport in your quaint little provincial backwater, though we must add an awfully large supplement for this great favour we're doing for you'.

I was out walking one day and the very same happened to me. I said to the owners, a young (by my standards) couple, 'thanks very much, I really appreciated that', to which the response from the male half was 'It's what dogs do'. He will never know how close he came to having his nose on the back...

I would just ban dogs in every shape or form. That would ruffle some feathers.

Groups of old fogies (I'm an old fogey myself to keep things in context) having a morning group ramble along a flat canal towpath in full hiking gear are also very good at taking up all available path space. I tend to find younger people are more likely to wander from side to side, thus also...

Referring to any album as being a 'solo album' when many others have contributed, and even worse when the 'solo artist' is just a singer and is only there for their totty appal. Use on the word 'only' when advertising the price of a very expensive item. Use of the word 'save' (in money) when...

It may account for a small proportion, certainly on Friday and Sunday afternoons. I'm not convinced for the rest of the week though.

I've never been able to understand why this obvious concept has not been mentioned by anyone on any discussion about HS2. There should be an analysis of why so many people feel the 'need' or are somehow 'required' to go to London in the first place, because I'm convinced that a significant...

I worked for the Manpower Services Commission and later Dept for Work and Pensions, and the management was always rebranding, with the excuse that it better represented it's relationship with the 'customers'. The customers didn't give a **** and to them it was always and still is 'The Dole'.

Apologies, that's the 14 day price. The same reasoning applies though.

I'm still trying to work out how an "All Line Rover" can be seen as attractive with the prices charged. I assume that nobody would even consider them without a railcard, so to compare railcard prices. It seems priced only to attract real enthusiasts trying to plan a rail journey carefully and...