Recent content by gallafent

You joke, but from Malaysia to Singapore it used to be like that! You'd actually get off the train, go through customs and so on, with your bags, then get back on to the same train to do the last little bit of the line into Singapore itself. This problem has been "solved" by simply closing the...

UK government petition "The Government must get the East West Rail Line passenger service running ASAP" Originally I was disappointed that there's not also a demand for a public enquiry into the delay, but, to be fair, one step at a time. Get it open first, and then the public enquiry.

Thanks for the background info @DelW, it's been a busy week and I'd missed those! :)

From The Oxford Clarion this week: Quite annoying, especially the bike part. No mention made of whether/when they plan to bring it back. Related is the general difficulty of "giving back" a reservation when one wants to switch train ... leading to the vast numbers of unoccupied (by the...

I accidentally happened on the first page of this thread, and, coindicentally ... the hydrogen buses in Aberdeen have, as it turns out, not succeeded! The technology didn't work (fuelling stations broken since 2024) and in terms of commercial viability, aside from the technical issues, they've...

... and since the short stay was moved from the convenient location next to the station building to the Becket Street car park (the location next to the station building is now all staff parking I think (maybe also some disabled bays?), and from recent observation generally has many empty spaces...

Yes, the southern link is in a different place. The tunnels for the proposed Heathrow Western Rail Link looks as if they would go _close_ to the third runway, geographically, but I imagine would be substantially deeper than the M25 tunnels anyway; a more-or-less independent project. Wikipedia...

No, and when there is disruption on the roads one's satnav can generally route around it straightforwardly, which generally seems to help enormously in reducing the delay caused by congestion (because the road network is such a large graph compared to the railway network, and one is in control...

Indeed, and even noncommuters could use the excellent Recent Train Times service to determine whichever statistically determined likely and likely-worst arrival time for their chosen journey fits their needs, allowing a more informed choice of departure time! :)

I know, my observation about the circuitous route being the _goal_ was tongue-in-cheek, I'm aware that it's actually a _consequence_ of the desire to serve those locations. That's faster than I expected, and good news ... I really hope that this service will be able to make sense for...

Absolutely this. Instead of as bendy as possible, which appears to have been the main design goal for the current route. Does anyone know what the ratio of crow-flies to track distance, from Bedford (central station) to Cambridge (central station) with the current plan will be, and the expected...

That's interesting, and echoes my experience: those were excellent, and it's such a shame they no longer run (Paris<->Madrid was a brilliant service ... but, then again, so is Paris<->Barcelona<->Madrid by TGV and AVE, so that's progress ... 14h19m from London to Madrid on Eurostar-TGV-2xAVE is...

My guess was cowley branch line special, to celebrate the announcement that it is funded. Confirmed in RTT. From the Oxford Clarion article, embargo lifted at midnight: [...] [...]

Reminds me of what ASLEF stands for! Edit: (and indeed what continues to be displayed in its logo ...)

TimeOut is being more dramatic with its reporting: Relevant section of page (the rest is more like background information / "how to get around during strikes" etc.) which feels as if it may be based on a simplistic interpretation of the announcements so far: