Recent content by Dave Beeching

There's a problem with these options though if you want to stay true to the Network North plans; all of them are actually in the North! :lol:

I do wonder (engineering, financial and planning challenges aside) and this is wrapped in a lot of baked pastry while floating high in the clouds, how operation could improve and what the time penalty would be if the line was extended from Gunislake to Tavistock rather than use the former track...

Hi All, I've just been booted off the train at Basingstoke as there's a reported landslip between there and Winchester - no other details. Anyone on the forum know more? Shame, we've only just gotten over the one at Hook a few months back! Cheers, Dave

Do you have a link to the post? Nice to make those statements but isn't Mark Hopwood the Managing Director for a train operating company and not a fund holder?

@Snow1964 you can see quite a few holes in the webbing of the bridge beam there in your photo!

Interesting from BBC news today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-63202672

Is that the blue car transporter wagons? Sorry, I'm not upto date with the abbreviations! There was also work about 2.5km further south on Sunday at Weston Colley/Northbrook.

It's about an extra 2hr drive for me ;) or at least 1 change on the train and then a taxi or a bus. Soton Airport benefits from a very good rail service and bus links. Exeter, not so much. There's also Dorset's Ryanair hub sort of-ish in between the two. I'd also say pre collapse of Fly-be...

Whaaaaaaaaat? Yeah, the in and out of the tunnels makes it fun no? Plus the loops with various freight trains being overtaken, the randomness of whatever has been dumped at the old oil terminal at Micheldever station and then the sun shimmering off a misty morning over the River Dever. If you're...

EVs are, in my opinion, great and much better than fossil fuel driven cars but they still get stuck in traffic along with everybody else and there's all the embodied carbon in producing them over producing using an (eek) existing DMU

Busway anyone? o_O

I'm in general disagreement as I now have a 40min wait in Basingjoke to connect to Winchester when this XC service passes straight through from Reading. This is off the back of an earlier cancellation as well!

Yep, I managed to completely miss this article so thanks for posting!

With you on that one. Much less stressful to sit on one train than traipse across the Tube even if the saving is 10mins etc. Probably completely unsubstantiated (clearly need to find some sort of academic article) but it seems that one change of trains is acceptable with more than that putting...

I was surprised by the number for the Westcountry. Many of them could well be on the 'mad' list ;)