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It's a bit like the terminating tube stations. There is someone's genuinely nearest station, and there is a nearby preferred station. Someone who does live nearest Cambridge South (the far side of Trumpington is 2km away) is well adjusted to the Cambridge set of options for such a short leg of...

It has 1000 bike spaces inside, and the busway, about 8 road bus routes, and several nationally significant employers within walking distance. Cars are not part of the target journeys. Airport stations can be on private land, maybe all those private companies who charge like that are?

Jump straight to this plan. Are land anchors a relevant temporary measure before building a more technically planned embankment?

It had the Leeds to Northallerton line until Beeching. For a proposed reopening, look for anything built on the line, and the reports listed on the wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds%E2%80%93Northallerton_railway

It's called Metropolitan Junction or Metropolitan Reversible, and it's now rusty and not in any passenger service. It had a lot of use in the past, including a triangular service between Cannon St, Charing Cross, and London Bridge...

No, the UK often uses a special seat that the wheelchair is backed into. In minivans and personal adapted vehicles this system of straps is more common, where the driver has an obligation. It’s hard to convert that to rail, does the driver, guard or platform boarding assistant do the task? The...

To know how that counts as a proportionate response, what temperature do you have in mind, and how wide an area is closed for one temperature reading? How much must it lower to reopen the line?

How near can a track worker be to a passing train at 125mph? Probably no nearer than I can be at Reading station. The 701's bioreactor toilets still go out of use it seems. https://www.railforums.co.uk/search/8080398/?q=toilet&t=post&c[thread]=148717&o=relevance The other obvious answer is a...

Are there drivers who have graduated recently enough to have large loans, rose to a level where they have a salary reaching the allowance drop off, and haven’t paid off their loans? It seems that’s trying too hard to find a problem, where the problem is that they are taxed on income over one...

It sounds like the workers wanted a pay rise, the union won them a pay rise, this was repeated many times to their satisfaction, and now they're among the higher paid in society. To hop over this will require taking away the rewarding factor of overtime, now that it's no longer the carrot it...

Measuring that for other domestic routes would be very useful for this forum. But for this international route, is that sort of analysis coming soon?

That’s a highly unusual urban journey, as just over half of it is on a motorway. You’d see a similar situation with getting to Heathrow, using the M4.

A circle of 8km centred on Halstead has 33k people. Adding 10x that is not viable, for fresh water supplies among many other reasons.

TrainSplit does some of that, I’ve used it to look at journeys I intended to do on one train but hadn’t decided which one. It seems pretty obscure, and adds a lot of complication to the planning tool. It may be best on a third party site, or an additional planner on the first party site. At...

What’s the slimmed down part of that? It sounds like that was the plan once, but the middle platform is now considered a useful spare. But how do you empty a train, check it over, and refill it? I haven’t done a Lille shuffle to know how that works, but it’ll need more space than that per...