Recent content by si404

Yes, the Italian market has been oversaturated for a long time.

The issue that provoked the 'foul attitude' wasn't the factual point (though it is wrong, and I would have been able to explain better why it was wrong had I not been distracted by the attitude of the post), but the superior and dismissive attitude of "Also those mentioning Amersham to London...

Sorry, I tried to swallow the disgusting arrogance that I was addressing, but I couldn't, and ended up spitting that foul attitude right back where it came from. 1598445880 Oh sure, Maidenhead commuting to Central London and Docklands will increase, but Canary Wharf will always be a small...

No one said that. I said "this is for an 'out the other side' journey that few will make.", but that's not the same. Through Central London journeys are not really a major aim - cross Central London journeys are. Hence the service pattern of Shenfield-Paddington and Reading/Heathrow-Abbey Wood...

Yes. This. And your analysis is rather good as to what those circumstances are. As a further point, I would suggest that the Mets would be more popular off-peak than they are (as they were the first year of stopping everywhere) if there wasn't the 4 years of them getting overtaken by the...

And how much to get one really good timetable recast that makes the map less spaghetti-like in places like Manchester and therefore more beautiful. :p

There's quite a few similar things where non-stop services are routed via routes they don't take - eg all the SE non-stop trains between Victoria and Bromley South are routed via the Catford loop on your map, when they typically go via Herne Hill. And XC in Birmingham towards the SE using the...

@CW2 's point there in #57 is about beyond OOC. Extension to OOC = good as a lot of passengers will board there heading into London. Extension beyond = problems with crowding and needing more rolling stock.

It's two separate bridges, with a linking connection (long since permanently closed) - this photo shows it well ('landside' is the red bridge in the foreground, 'railside' is the white-and-red bridge behind, connection the stairs going over the roundel). Hopefully the new step-free bridge...

It's a handful of services a day and doesn't serve any stations not on the map without it (unlike all the other thin-dashed lines, save the Caledonian Sleeper*). As explained in the original post: *why is that one-off daily service there? It doesn't meet the criteria.

Presumably we only care about London services and are ignoring the branches. Amersham sees 2tph off-peak Chiltern, and 4tph peak (and the same with the Met line). Reading: Obviously there's more GWR services. Twyford and Maidenhead: 2tph all day - so the same off-peak, and less at peak...

Define 'tube rates' when you can't put the stations (other than Iver and Langley) in numbered zones. Should also note that fares on the ex-GA lines that TfL Rail/LO run are on a different fare scale (shared with GA) to the standard TfL fares. There's also, from beyond-zone 6, residual London...

The three stations you mentioned are also served by toileted 387s (Paddington-Didcots) most of the time (OK, Slough isn't at peak times, but the station is surely staffed and toilets open then!) Twyford is 5 minutes from Reading, Maidenhead 3 minutes from Taplow, etc. Worst case scenario I've...

They are operated by GWR.

I get your point now. But no. The "Elizabeth Line" brand is over everything. It would have made more sense if the Elizabeth line (lowercase l like all the other lines) was the line name in a Crossrail mode, run by "Crossrail" TOC (then again, would Network Rail, GWR or Greater Anglia use the...