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The only change I suggested to the Thameslink and Great Northern services on the East Coast Mainline is that no more than one of the two Great Northern London Kings Cross to Cambridge stopping trains (some of which terminate at Letchworth) each hour (Monday to Saturday) should stop at Welwyn...

Would they oppose building dedicated parking for Welwyn Garden City Station and a bus service between Welwyn North Station and Welwyn Garden City Station? If passengers who drive to Welwyn North Station were provided with dedicated parking at Welwyn Garden City Station instead would they not use...

These are issues that can be fixed if there is the political will to do so. Dedicated parking could be built near Welwyn Garden City Station and a bus service could be run between Welwyn North Station and Welwyn Garden City Station to enable users of Welwyn North Station to use Welwyn Garden...

This could surely be eased a bit by reducing the service at Welwyn North from two trains an hour to one train an hour or fewer. There is a much better service at Welwyn Garden City.

You mean the December 2024 timetable change on the East Coast Mainline has been cancelled? Is there going to be an official announcement? In view of the statement in the budget and all the discussions at Transport for the North meetings surely there should be an official announcement that the...

The rear first class on Thameslink trains is always declassified and on many Thameslink services both front and rear first class is declassified. Clearly it was a mistake to build these metro and commuter service trains with first class seating when they are driver only operation, go through...

I suggest presenting this Government with a list of the additional infrastructure investments that need to made (including those on which the planned new East Coast Mainline timetable was originally based which the Government then cancelled in spending cuts while still expecting all the original...

This is the calendar of milestone dates for December 2024 and May 2025 but I am not sure on which dates the new timetables become generally available.

I agree that Govia Thameslink Railway should remove First Class from all their services as Southeastern and London North Western have already done.

Southampton City Council made clear that this proposed tunnel is not in their Local Transport Plan or Local Plan.

The whole point of the hourly all stops service between Portsmouth and Southsea and Southampton Central is to provide a service to all the stations served both to Portsmouth and to Southampton and to provide a direct train service between Portsmouth and Southampton. As the capacity issue...

Until now Woolston and Sholing have had the same service of one SWR all stops train an hour seven days a week. This will change in June as Woolston will then have three trains an hour with the half hourly Southern Southampton to Brighton service calling at Woolston Monday to Saturday. This will...

This June 2024 West Coastway timetable change has highlighted again the issue of eight stations between Fareham and Southampton Central so all services between Fareham and Southampton Central have to be timetabled around the hourly all stops SWR Portsmouth and Southsea to Southampton Central...

It is declassified on standard class only routes. See 1711916521 The fastest service from Cosham and Fareham to Southampton Central is the GWR Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central service which runs nonstop Fareham to Southampton Central and is standard class only. Why would anyone want to...

Has a December 2024 timetable now been agreed?

Referencing LNER annual accounts to 31 March 2023 and 31 March 2022 (including figures for the year to 31 March 2021) and ORR passenger journeys by operator for LNER for each year to the same dates at the links below I note the following revenues and costs rounded to the nearest million pounds...

Unless all the existing passengers are distress purchasers with no alternative but to travel by LNER train and pay whatever fare is demanded I would expect the result of raising fares to be fewer passengers and less revenue overall. This is the usual result of attempting to increase prices when...

Looking at the quarterly passenger numbers up to and including October to December 2023 in the following statistics LNER quarterly passenger numbers returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2022 but did not significantly increase on this in 2023 after LNER stopped selling return fares. It will be...

Looks like Lumo want to run some double sets but cannot do so because of Government cuts to the power supply upgrades between Newcastle and Edinburgh. The Cross Country trains are also too short and do not have enough seats, they need new bimode trains like the 9 car GWR class 800s.

Article on ECML December 2024 timetable on page 8 of Modern Railways April 2024 refers to a letter dated 1 March from Chris Curtis, Network Rail's Director, Industry PMO and Network Performance, to Conrad Bailey, Directory General, Rail Strategy and Services at the Department for Transport.