Recent content by Sad Sprinter

I meant the speculative ideas threads. There’s no point in people reading ‘Speculative Ideas’ and getting annoyed to see speculative ideas.

I do not understand why you read these forums.

31 here and yes I think its shocking. I don't even think the right-wing politics are a problem, they're a symptom of the complete failure of neoliberalism which we still haven't found a way to accept never mind address. Tackle that and politics becomes more "normal" again, or at least stops...

I think people that are against South London Overgrounds don't understand living in big cities. I cannot believe the train timetables can't survive school holidays and sunny days. Britain is developing a third-world country mentality. We've heard of post-imperial decline, but this is just...

Building a new line to HS1 would work better if you divert Javelin services down it towards Heathrow or further afield though.

Exactly. Tbf you could connect them with OOC but Heathrow is nearer. could improve the case for international services if you have a stop there

Gatwick Express are doing quite a strong advertising campaign at the moment. The Treasury must want that premium fare. 1780081197 Yes, they could have brought back the old Brighton express services.

I wondered what was going on as I went over the Brighton flyover near Queenstown Road. Saw an Up Slow train stationary adjacent Pouparts Jn whilst a Down Alton seemed to weave onto the slows in front of it. Whilst plenty of trains were stacked adjacent Queenstown Road.

South East London seems to be being punished for something. Sure it has a slither of Crossrail but other than that the service is contracting before our eyes. I hope us lot on Southern don't end up with a similar treatment. I'm sure they'd be happy to cut Crystal Palace line services to 1 an...

What on earth? This feels worse than the austerity years.

This is the reason why? is it because of drivers being on their summer holidays?

Heathrow Hub could have worked I think. It was near enough to Heathrow to plausibly feel like part of the Heathrow complex. Whereas OOC is a whole borough away. If it was built at Stockley Park, you could have had potentially 6 Crossrail trains an hour connecting from the airport to the...

Hence why I thought routing the line away from Heathrow was a mistake.

Why does OOC not count?

I still say First Great western, First Great Eastern, SWT and a few others. Certainly saw a flat listing in the last few years refer to being close to the “British Rail” station.