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Don't think Lichfield City has been mentioned yet. XC stops there when line is closed around Tamworth so a quick 20 minute journey up to Derby rather than having to go via Tamworth or even Brum on those rare days. Can't remember if 6 tph on Cross City line was reduced on those weeks to cope...

Ah yeah you're right on that, thought for some reason you could join the Coalville line just north of Leicester station. Yes non starter that idea! Fast Brum-Notts service needs to happen anyway. Was at New street a few hours ago and looking at the board and seeing it take over an hour (and...

Don't think any trains that go Brum-Derby-Sheffield-Donny-NE have stopped at any of Tamworth, Burton, Chesterfield in pre covid off peak hours. Could be wrong but that is the express service to North east from West Midlands while via Leeds does stop at Chesterfield and one of Tam/Burton. Any...

Yeah I used to do Brum-Newcastle once a month a few years back and would never go through Leeds as it just takes too long, going v Donny is so much nice and faster. The problem however was lag time at a couple of stations. For example train used to go from BNS at xxx30 and roll into Derby just...

Half hourly Basingstoke-Reading stopper surely enough to serve this.

The Sir Patrick Vallance have a quick shot special "We just don't know yet."

Talk Sage are pushing for Hospitality not to open until early May. I think it will be early April when things are significantly eased.

Would be interesting to see where people ranked things if you added the actual 2nd city into the mix. Snail pace work on the trams up to five ways/ Broad Street continues and saw on Central last night there's 20m funding gap for re-opening of Camp Hill line although Andy Street still expects it...

It's cool. Been on it a few times and usually no problem to get on even when the school nearby has just cleared out as many just get on the bus instead. Reminds me of the monorail at Brum airport. I did walk one from Junction to Stourbridge town centre and it took well over 10 minutes with a...

Think a bigger problem developing in this wave is the amount of people 40-50 having serious problems in hospital so not even sure just protecting everyone over 70 who have been shielding for ages now will solve everything. It's still the long game I'm afraid but can't see why we can't have a...

From Kings Norton yeah..... Would shave 5-10 off though if you could fly straight out New Street rather being stuck behind a stopper that's been delayed a few minutes at Five Ways or University. Camp Hill way you have to do the sharp right turn by the Blues ground at reduced speed (and...

If you mean Beth Rigby she's been suspended by Sky for six months hasn't she for going to the Kay Burley party.

Think a fair bit of country will move back to tier 3 status by early April IF vaccine rollout can be as succesful as we all want it to be (no guarentee though with the over promise for targets in last 12 months). Can't see lockdown being lifted mid Feb but it really can't go on much beyond...

Yep pretty much that and same coming from south e.g. Man Pic train comes up from Camp Hill and North East/Leeds comes in the more regular way crawling if there's been a delay on cross city line. Shame it's not double tracked all the way to New street as Brum-Bristol in just over an hour would...

A few years back when I knew someone in London there were cheap fares for the 5pm London Euston train that called at Tamworth and Lichfield Trent Valley and then onto Glasgow, caught a few of these and they were actually stopping at Milton Keynes just to set down but just sped through last time...

In normal times xxx42 past the hour always goes via Camp Hill in my experience. xxx11 down to Plymouth goes the Uni route.

Remember taking a mate to watch a Stoke-Liverpool game around a decade back when I was at Uni up there. We were both travelling back to Brum. I'd only started using the train regularly back then on national scale so for weekends home it would always be XC and well Virgin trains looked similar...

I actually think there should be more calls at Macclesfield although I think that's the case anyway now with both XCs services stopping there compared to just the 57 xxxx (from Birmingham new street) that used to stop. Obviously not done it in a while but once a month would catch the rush hour...

Would much rather have a 15 or even 20 minute service (as was the normal between April-June) with 6 carriages than 10 minutes with just a 3 carriage train. Anyone who uses cross city line in the past around 5-6pm going will know what a nightmare it is being crammed in like sardines and that's...

Or Reading?