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I think everything from Queens St HL went via Croy (except the West Highland trains)

In the 1980s, didn't Cumbernauld trains operate as a shuttle from Springburn, not going to Queen Street at all?

Their renumeration and benefits may well not have had any enthusiasm for trimming (and why would it?) but certainly the number of senior management was always under scrutiny, as can be seen by the number of reorganisations eventually leading to Divisions and Areas being merged etc.

The Enterprise does not go through a long undersea tunnel. You do not address the other part of the post of @Bletchleyite - Who is going to sign off removing the checks and why would they take on that responsibility and effort? Because it would likely be an onerous task, for little or no...

The simple answer is - there is no money in commercially operated bus services now - inter alia PSVAR, Emissions regs, ENCTS and now Fare Caps have seen to that. Central Govt. don't want the responsibility and funding of local bus services, the bus company owners don't want / can't afford the...

I guess this will be the issue caused by those 'successful' people who moved from the urban areas to the picturesque and now seriously upmarket rural villages since the 80s or have retired to them more recently, who are now getting old and unable / not wanting to use their car so much. Not...

I don't think anyone travelling from the Trent Valley line station or Rugby to London would want the existing service to be crowded out by passengers travelling from Liverpool to London (who would far rather be on a fast train).

Although the locomotives could be much taller as well...

Did any of the bankers or Water Company CEOs actually break any laws for which they could be put in jail for? If not, then those ultimately responsible are the lawmakers, for having a legal framework that has allowed whatever you think has been responsible for the 'overall situation'. So...

In my experience there will always be the Procurement Team who try to squeeze every last drop out of the contractor(s); usually because there will always be the Contractor who has given them good reason to need to do so.

Long Buckby may well be the closest station to Daventry, but if you were aiming to go or come from Daventry by any method other than walking to a Station you would be better to go to Northampton (where the fairly frequent bus service goes past the Station) or at a pinch Rugby (where the hourly...

I suspect there is a bit of wishful thinking going on here. In the winter of 1962/3 the train service consisted of 5 stopping (although most of the intermediate stations up to Harrogate had already been closed) DMU trains running from Darlington to Leeds and 2 running from Northallerton to...

In that era, regional type trains ran about every 2 hours, and small local stations only served in the morning and early evening [often carrying mostly railway staff going to and from work]. With lots of cross over and exceptions. There wasn't much commuting as we know it now - people...

I am sure that GBR will be able to make all the necessary financial case, and if it stacks up then they can buy new trains. (not sure that lower track access charges is not wooden dollars though).

I guess the ultimate straight jacket will be financial, but there will also be a desire to prevent the GBR from spending in such a way that exposes the DfT to excess expenditure later (such as spending the rolling stock money on fewer but more expensive kit, and then having to come back for...