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This is an astonishingly complacent attitude in a competitive environment. Please could you explain?

Outside this forum, I’m not sure anyone gives a flying carp about the time a train sets off. People are, fairly obviously, bothered about whether their train arrives on time.

Back-of-envelope calculations: Princes Risborough to Aylesbury is timetabled at 16 minutes. Aylesbury to Claydon West Junction is 11.5 miles. Including a stop at Aylesbury Vale Parkway, let's say 18 minutes. Claydon West Junction to Milton Keynes Central is timetabled at 23 minutes. So that's...

Not quite. Extending the existing shuttle to become Princes Risborough–Aylesbury–MKC is eminently doable.

Whether or not there have been posters at New Street for months or minutes, it is very customer-hostile that every single major station appears to be setting its own rules. 40 seconds at New Street, 30 seconds there, a minute somewhere else, and so on (and that's before we get onto Kings Cross's...

Direct trains from everywhere to Newcastle are a lovely thing to have, but right now people are regularly being left on the platform at Oxford because there simply isn't any standing room on the hourly service to Banbury. Compare to York–Newcastle which is 5tph for much of the day. One extra...

Where "some more" means "one more".

Oh, that's fantastic. Several years ago Junior (now 8) had christened the Rodoeste buses in Madeira "the hurty bus" on account of the rather devil-may-care driving style around the steep, twisty roads of Madeira. I shall have to take him on a re-enactment around the Peak District…

Charlbury to High Wycombe doesn’t even have a “via Bicester” fare yet, ten years after the new chord opened, so I wouldn’t hold your breath for Watford to Oxford… https://www.brfares.com/!fares?orig=CBY&dest=HWY&period=20250302

They do have a website: https://geminitrains.com/

I think you're slightly misreading my quip! "Advanced" idiomatically means "complicated", whereas "advance" means "ahead of time". An advance fare is one purchased ahead of time, which is what OP is referring to here. An advanced fare is a complex one beloved of the inhabitants of this board...

A pedant writes (in what is an increasingly lost battle): They're "advance fares". No "D". Advanced fares are those which involve a split relying on NRCoT 14.3, obscure interpretations of the Routing Guide, and long-forgotten loophole ticket validities which the TOC hasn't noticed... yet.

Given that there are countless miles of NSL road where 60mph is too high for safe driving - thousands of miles of country lanes, for example - it clearly is a limit and not a target.

Right now, if you're going to run services from the south through Oxford, it should be to Banbury, to relieve the crush loading caused by CrossCountry dropping their frequency to (mostly) 1tph. In theory this is only meant to be a temporary situation, but XC are showing no signs of resolving it...

It has been done. Central Trains reduced the prices of many walk-up off-peak tickets early in their franchise to "under a fiver" and "under a tenner". They even promoted it with TV advertising: Contemporary report...

Because an accessible public transport system that caters for everyone, not just the time-rich, is a social good and relieves the externalities of private car travel.

I tend to blame the game, not the player - the car-centric society that forces people to drive for their everyday amenities, rather than the people driving to the best of their confidence level.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please be aware that this Intercity Express Train is formed of 26 coaches. Passengers in coaches B to Z requiring to alight at the next station should move forward to carriage A."

So what's the cascade plan? The press release (https://news.gwr.com/news/class-175-trains-to-help-great-western-railway-improve-reliability-across-the-network) says: HSTs gone of course, and 158s and 166s released for regional services around Bristol. Worcester/Gloucester to Bristol presumably...

With a bike in a taxi (even boxed) I’d always check on booking. I’ve even encountered RRBs where the driver has been reluctant to take my fully folded bike.