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7500 x 2* x 5 x 52 = 3.9 million * arrivals and departures Plus weekend passengers ? Half the weekly amount ? That`d be another 750,000 odd ? Say 4.5 million a year in total ?

No you`re right, misplaced decimal point, I shall edit it.... Thanks for pointing that out ! The figures are from this graph on Wikipedia --- old post above --- --- new post below --- I still haven`t managed to find out the passenger numbers using Marylebone in the 1980s, but I was having...

I find every price for everything on the whole railway scene is eye wateringly expensive. You hear that there are plans to open a new platform at some relatively small station or they`re going to build a new footbridge and the quote is millions of pounds. You can buy a reasonable size house in a...

I`ve often wondered about this. Just how much money is saved by singling anyway ? OK you may not have to maintain the second track, but how expensive is that, particularly when you realise all the drainage works and stuff like that has to be done anyway ? And if all the traffic is put on just...

Does anyone know what the passenger numbers using Marylebone station were at its nadir in the mid 1980s ? According to the ORR they were 15.5 million in 2013/14 and I`d be interested to compare the two. I think this comparison is particularly interesting the light of the infamous Serpell report...

Not by making innocents suffer, how is that fair ? This is the RMT v their employers, it`s nothing to do with me. It`s got nothing to do with bringing people up or down. I`m not a Maggie Thatcher fan at all, or even a Tory, but she was right, you can`t buck the market. Everything in...

No but they can move to get another job. That`s what all of us have to do. If we don`t like the job we`re in or think we aren`t earning enough we have to leave and get another job, possibly involving a completely different change of career. Why should railway workers be any different ? Having...

I am planning to get a NE Flexi Rover in June, does anyone know what my refund rights would be if I couldn`t use the ticket on one of the four days ? I`ve had to pre book 4 days off work for this so am obviously pretty ****ed off about it. It`s not fair that I and millions like me who are...

I have had extended correspondence with Cross Country Trains about short notice seat reservations ("Ten Minute Seat Reservations" = TMR) and they have stated that TMR should be suspended by the train manager if the train is busy and seats are short. Two points arise from this : 1 If there...

Now that`s an interesting idea..... --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Personally I hate claustrophobic Pendolinos with their small windows and massive window pillars (though they`ve actually got reasonable leg room), but if the popularity of train travel on the routes they...

But if you had more than one mobile how would they know ?

Incidentally, does anyone know if it`s possible to "reserve" seats on multiple trains ? Particularly if you`ve got more than one mobile phone is there anything to stop someone reserving seats on say three trains then later deciding which one he (or she) will actually catch ? ! ?

We can agree on that. It`s not just the crowding, it`s the noise. These days you can`t get away from it, personal stereos, people watching films on their laptops, people playing noisy computer games etc etc etc. Then there`s the coaches, noisy smelly plasticy Yoyagers or claustrophobic...

That`s rubbish. I have to say I`m surprised at the implication from this and other posters that passengers already in seats subsequently "reserved" by someone else just got up and moved. What is wrong with the good old British sense bolshiness and of not wanting to let other people push them...

Obviously reservations would not be needed if there were more seats.... But the problem with short notice seat reservations is they are incapable of ascertaining if the seat is already taken. I agree that the scrum you sometimes get to find a seat is unpleasant, but I have to say I can`t...

I think we`re getting to the nub of the type of people who think short notice seat reservations are a good thing. I can only say you wouldn`t be kicking me out of the seat, even the train manager wouldn`t be, it`d need a British Transport Policeman to explain to me why I should vacate my seat...

Absolutely, couldn`t agree more. The only thing I don`t understand is how anyone could argue differently......

Why is it unfair ? ! ? It matters 100% when it was reserved. When you used the system how did you feel about possibly evicting someone who may have sat in the seat before you even got on the train ? Did you even think about it ? Just answering "that`s the system so I just used it" is no...

So, if it makes no difference to how much income they get, why did they ever think it was a good idea ? ! ? --- old post above --- --- new post below --- But it`s completely different ! Not only is it completely unfair (that someone who may well have "reserved" that seat after I`d already...

We will have to agree to disagree, but we were all talking about it in the shop today. My two staff don't use the train that often so can be considered unbiased in this regard, neither of them could understand why any train company would bring in such a system or how they could possible think it...