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But if you want to reduce congestion and car use you have to provide new options. The question is by not providing parking are opportunities being missed?

I am not familiar with the area, but would ask the following questions: Will the lack of parking mean that some people will decide that a longer drive to another station is not worth the effort, and decide to complete the whole journey by car, instead of using the train. Would parking here...

I assume that in the event of a national emergency powers would be taken to ensure that rail freight is available to support what ever measures are being taken to address the emergency. I would guess a similar situation to both WW1 and WW2. Passenger travel might also be restricted to essential...

And would you want tilting on a sleeper? As long as you can get from start to end in maybe 10 hours you dont need to save any more time. Thinking 9pm departure, 7am arrival.

As someone based south of the border, this is how I see it. The current sleeper is a loss maker supported by Holyrood. I can see good reasons for continuing to support it, but surely the subsidy required for an international service would be far higher, and that would be on top of the existing...

Over the years I have been on a couple of services where 'toilet stops' were required. In both cases there was one working toilet when I boarded the train, but this quickly became overloaded or otherwise broken (3 car services in both cases). As for starting a service with no toilets on a 6hr...

Not bothered on a regional basis, but inconsistancies within the same station are a cause of confusion. Having multiple TOCs each with there own staff to deal with stuff like getting passengers home after disruption, each with a different approach just seems silly. In the case I alluded to there...

I am not giving them to anyone, but I think GBR should be responsible for all passenger facing stuff including stations, so you either do a major change across the whole network or you do a phased change, hence my comment 'for the moment'.The current ToC based approach has created a disjointed...

I dont think splitting services between 2 stations is the answer it solves one problem but creates a bigger one, where your incoming train arrives at one and your connecting train leaves from the other. The impact on overall journey time can be significant. To the north of the station is very...

To me this is at least part of the problem. At a major station every operator should be operating to the same rules with a common information feed and 'backroom support'. OA operators would also have to fall in line. Hence my comment that 'GBR' should be running and manning the major stations...

Thats the problem, there appears to be no moves to have GBR front all operations, so the silo approach will continue. I am all in favour of fare reform, the current system is to put it bluntly a mess. For people that have some flexibility with their timing this will work, but if your journey...

And also 6924 Grantley Hall which is about 1.5 miles away from Fountains Hall as the crow flys.

I can only say what I saw during one event, which was basically chaos, with LNER, GN, Hull Trains and Grand Central all trying to deal with 'their' passengers. Indiviually everyone was trying to be helpful, but conflicting advice and a lack of information seemed to point to lack of an...

We experienced a similar situation a few years ago when arriving at Kings Cross in the middle of major disruption. As I see it there are a number of problems: Multiple ToC staff each with their own version of 'H&S' which in a lot of cases ends up being at odds with the safest approach to...

With water and electricity there are no 'competing modes' or alternatives, with rail you also have air, bus, coach and car use competing across the network, so if the service deteriorates to the point of being unusable people switch. This happened with TPE prior to covid with the Scarborough...

Across a national border, but within Schengen Venlo (Holland) to Kaldenkirchen (Germany), ~4.8km/3mile

Maybe this needs to be rolled back to basics: What are we trying achieve? My own guess would be to provide an integrated public service nationally at a service level based on current provision at minimum cost to the taxpayer, whilst maintaining the network and infrastructure to ensure that...

And I believe there is public support for nationalisation of things like the railways where a genuinely competetive marketplace cannot be acheived. This support I suspect extends beyond the traditional party lines. I would probably describe myself as 'Conservative' in general outlook, but I...

I see the last two years as a missed opportunity, a Labour goverment should have been pursuing the public ownership agenda with much more vigour. In general I am not a fan of 'nationalisation', but in the case of the railways where half the money to run passenger service comes from the taxpayer...

Surely this is a result of fixed costs, for example wages, rolling stock costs. A carriage carrying its full completement of seated passengers is going to earn more per passenger mile than a carriage with 10 passengers. If you pack them in standing then you will earn even more per passenger mile...