Recent content by JonathanH

Does ticket acceptance include Contactless PAYG, and if so, does it fit within maximum journey times?

If the terminal capacity is limited, I don't think any 'spare' capacity on HS2 itself can be used by a competing operator.

The previous poster is, I think, referring to Acton Main Line, not Old Oak Common.

It could probably still stop at Horley, and cross at the junction south of Earlswood but could demand at the stations between Horsham and Horley effectively fill a half-hourly 12-car 700? East Grinstead services stem from the simple fact that there were historically 'peak extra' services from...

Does the mayor of London have a say in the fares charged between St Pancras and Stratford International? Presumably not.

I doubt it. If it were, it would be akin to the special arrangements between Stratford International and St Pancras, with a higher more penal charge. Still, it is 17 years away, so who knows.

Is Euston going to be built in such a way that the service can only reach 10tph, then it is somewhat unlikely that it will be possible to expand the service. In any case, this would be so far into the future as to be largely irrelevant in modern terms. We are now talking about Old Oak Common...

No one ever seems to acknowledge that buses which run on the same 'route' as a train also call at intermediate stops and serve slightly different places. Yes, there is 'competition' but there is also ways in which they compliment each other.

Surely figures like 17 or 18 tph are long gone expectations, along with the platforms at Euston that would be required to run that frequency, and any outlet to places not on the WCML?

Various trains held 50 minutes at Denmark Hill / Peckham Rye. Can't quite work out which one might have had the problem. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:PMR/2026-10-17/1300-1350?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt Obstruction on the track...

It may be noted that although the service from Tonbridge to Redhill only runs hourly through the day (with some shorter gaps in the peak hours), the first weekday service is at 0442 from Tonbridge, and the last one back leaves Redhill at 0028, catering (with connections) for early and late...

It could probably still stop at Horley, and cross at the junction south of Earlswood but could demand at the stations between Horsham and Horley effectively fill a half-hourly 12-car 700? While I recognise that no one wanting London from stations south of Gatwick really wants to suffer the...

HS2 will operate without through services to Euston for a good while after its opening, possibly for five years or more, but it is over ten years from now before even services to Old Oak Common are likely to start, so all sorts of things could change before that.

In its final incarnation, the 2tph off-peak service on the Redhill to Tonbridge line prior to the service going hourly in December 2008, it didn't go to Medway and Strood but to Tunbridge Wells. Southern units operated Tunbridge Wells to Horsham. Southeastern units operated Tunbridge Wells to...

I think the railway is going to raise fares by following the LNER model, which might allow the coach operators to be more financially stable. GWR have certainly taken its advance fares up to close to the super-off-peak walk up price, which should allow National Express to make money on its...