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I'm amazed people consider the 'park' an important natural conservation area. It's got no established trees, just recently planted saplings. And is used by dog walkers as a pet toilet.

If only the media would interrogate these PR merchants and ask why they are still failing to fulfil a promised franchise commitment to provide 12-car units on the peak Corby service, why despite having 21 x class 360 units and requiring only 12 to run an 8-car service, Corby services are...

It would make sense for Southeastern to re-equip with a new single uniform fleet. 707 could then move to Southern Metro services giving commonality with GTR 700 and 717 fleet. 377 and 387 could then cascade to strengthen Southern or Great Northern outer services.

The former EMR ticket office is being turned into a Gail's Bakery outlet. The adjacent GTR ticket office now has noticeable queues as nobody seems to know about the new location upstairs on the Grand Terrace. However in spite of the GTR ticket office having 4 windows it never has more than 2...

The problem with the existing station design is the island platform. It is currently planned to be located between the up slow and the down slow. This is the wrong location. It should be located between the up fast and down slow, similar to other MML stations. It would then be future proofed to...

2 track railway on the MML so some Sundays only the fasts are in use. Not possible to call at Wixams. No Sunday service on the Marston Vale, therefore no service at Kempston Hardwick. We should really be questioning why has it become so expensive to build a fairly basic station in this country...

Imagine being a resident on the Wixams housing estate. You might be able to walk or cycle to the new train station, but your estate roads will be clogged full of parked vehicles from customers driving from the surrounding area and either choosing free Street parking as opposed to paying the...

Plan of station from Bedford Borough Council website. The following link confirms they plan to close the station after 10pm. Although they don't appear to be aware of weekend closures or unplanned events such as a line defect or train breakdown on the slow line which would prevent trains...

The existing plans have a platform on the up slow with the main station building and car park on the east side. A second platform between the up slow and down slow, with a bridge and presumably lifts connecting both. If the second platform was instead correctly positioned between the down slow...

No I'm proposing that Wixams should be built with 4 platforms. There is a good reason why Leagrave, Harlington and Flitwick all operate with 4 platforms. The majority of services only use the platforms on the slow lines, but operational flexibility and resilience requires platforms on the fast...

The Midland mainline has the fasts on the west side and the Slows on the east side. The current flawed design has a single platform with station building on the up slow furthest east and a second island platform between the up and down slow lines. It is this island platform which as it currently...

Wixams needs to be a 4 platform station from the outset. The MML operates as a 2 track railway during periods of regular maintenance, and delivering a station only on the slow lines will mean either frequent costly rail replacement or no service at weekends and overnight. The Universal Studios...

The question which really needs to be asked is why aren't XC generating enough revenue to fund investment in longer and more frequent trains? The trains I have seen across a number of different routes always well loaded, indeed excessively so in some cases which often deters repeat business. But...

It really can't be free. It can be free at the point of use, and paid for by the taxpayer, but then we need to know how much each taxpayer would be spending extra each year to fund it, bearing in mind they already partially subsidise the railways. Some taxpayers will be paying extra for a...

Could they use class 67s and increase the length of the coaching stock ? So quieter loco and more capacity with more seats for Birmingham and Oxford. Or are the platforms not long enough?