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But Brunswick was built for a different purpose, serves a different catchment, and makes use of an existing inner suburban corridor. Edge Hill has a fundamentally different context and the gains you suggest would rely upon other very significant changes

I'm sure it is tied to both cost cutting and the availability of resources. That doesn't alter my central point - with other changes. we've lost significant capacity

Which, in fairness, is also a comment on the shift in bogie designs to inside framed since the Mk4.

The comparisons are of chalk and cheese. Both L&B and Helston are relatively confined lines, with the L&B (if restored in full) at the outer end of what might be viable for a heritage railway. The S&D is a 70 mile trunk, with a 25 mile branch. It goes through very empty country, and the...

I'm not sure, because I do not wish to criticise people who have worked very hard to investigate and restore service. If I were to make one suggestion, it would be that the culture that time is of the essence be restored to both recovery and the preceding investigation work, rather than that...

It's entirely relevant, but not sufficient.

All true, and yet... "By their works shall ye know them" - and what we see is very protracted works. That's not an individual failing, but it is a system failing. Not just Wickford or Lewes, but the vast majority of major incidents in the last ~30 years

Without comment on the lighting (and as someone who likes his carriages brightly lit), I recognise the comparison between HST and IET. And as for the bang when passing another, I'll gladly have that back in retrun for losing the shaking like a 304 at speed that is so often my experience on the IET.

That'd depend a lot on which course they do - the campus is large.

Or University of Durham Stockton campus (where international students have defintely felt let down)

There are two issues here. The first is around what constitutes delivery of the services, where I take a hard view that the timetable is an intrinsic part of the contract, meaning that it is a contract to convey from X to Y at the times stated in the timetable at the time of booking (and, yes...

I'm interested in that change of pattern, as that is new since my time there. This former student always walked or cycled, took the bus, or used the train when he'd been in town. Edge Hill station was a distraction, being further from the heart of the campus, worse served, and with none of...

Why are buses not good enough given where people live and work?

So? In what other industry would paying people their purchase price for non-delivery be considered controversial because “it’s going out of the industry”? That idea is one of the most destructive in the industry

So because financial incentives don’t work, you’d replace a payment to the person affected with a fine. Not sure I get that logic