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It's often mentioned here that the role of guards is safety critical and thus they are highly skilled professionals not 'just' to sell / inspect tickets and open / close the train doors. What are these safety critical things the guard has to do? Just curious, thanks

Thanks folks, that makes things clearer Engineering, was at Hillhead (fyfe house) when I was in my first year Perhaps this would be a good opportunity to raise the issue of how things may be improved for passengers with more than a briefcase, it seems that such provision is simply not...

I'l shortly be returning home from studying in Aberdeen and so was wondering what the current protocol was with putting stuff in the luggage compartment of east coast services. Previously I've simply put my stuff in to find the guard appear, ask where I was getting off, se it was labeled and...

another vote for Leeds-Wetherby and to reinstate the wharfedale line-Harrogate line link throgth Otley and the link between Ilkley and Skipton these should all have massive comuter traffic, so why did beeching shut them?

Wasn't it caused by the signal being hiden behind a Bridge and cables in a layout designed bt BR? therefore it was not caused by privitisation as many think but dopey railway designers.

I originally intended for the poll to have loads of permutations because I consider the curren situation to be a halfway house compramise that dosn't work, what was the idea behind the monopoly track and franchaised tocs, rather than just rather than selling each individual railway as a whole...

There seems to be a lot of people who would like to see the railways renationalised, lets have a vote.

why does the leasing co have to pay the 180million for the new carriages? surely it would be cheaper for virgin to buy them themselves?

the itineries take longer to read now, having it in text form rather than a table

mine are: 1 GNER 2 Virgin 3 MML 4 first transpenine express (buffet like monty python's cheese shop) 5 first great western 6 northern 7 central trains

methinks the government are trying to nationalise the railways by stealth, notice how the dft choose either First, arriva, or stagecoach for all the new franchaises...

I'm thinking about using the caledonian sleeper from preston to Aberdeen, does anyone know why Preston is not on the list of departure points on the bargain berths website and if it is apceptable to use it to get a "ticket" from london but get on teh train at preston?

how about a east coast sleeper service that joins with the caledonian sleeper at Edinburgh?

why are they paying the government instead of network rail, shurely the idea of a private railway is that the market rules, not burocratts!

why can't the governmet just keep their nose out and let the market decide

How long has a direct london-inverness service been going, and why was it set up?

Most stations I've seen have room for an extra coach or two, besides they could stop when the platform's full then move forward at more than just the north of scotland.

how about making the trains longer so they can sell more tickets without faffing about with extra route charges, perhaps this extra supply can mean the fares can go down making train travel more popular and stop charging over a tenner for a fry up in the restaraunt so someone would buy it!