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It brings more money by increasing the number of passengers that would be paying normal fare rather than a discount fare, though for the retirement age proposal you would notice a a more noticeable decrease in passengers as the price difference would be significant but it would still generate...

There are at least 242,770 Disabled Persons Railcards which is the only one that gets regularly tracked data released by the ORR. I remember seeing 1 million figure several years ago for senior railcards and there are likely hundreds of thousands for each time. If i had to guess about 2 million...

Does anyone know why railcard prices haven't increased since 2013? As it seems odd to me, that in the post-covid environment they haven't increased the prices of railcards as it would be a quick way to generate tens of millions of pounds. This may be odd question to ask and odd wanting to have a...

Thank you for pointing that out! I completely missed that out when previously viewing pictures and watching the visualisation. I really hope that solar panels become standard on platform canopies in the future. Do you know if the solar panels will be the semi-transparent as the visualisation...

There was a video released last year "Preparation for Gatwick Redevelopment" with more details about the project, I'm not sure if it was mentioned in the video as I don't have the time to check currently but there were definitely some detailed layout pictures. The link to the video is below...

Update New concourse will open on Tuesday 21st November 2023 and detailed description provided by ianvists. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/gatwick-airport-railway-station-upgrade-reducing-delays-on-the-brighton-main-line-67216/

HS2 Phase 2 should be chosen as all the studies have already been done and we are just waiting for final approval from the powers above and legislation to be presented to parliament. Very little has been done for NPR other than a vague idea of route and it would be several years to get to the...