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Given the Railway Regulation Act 1844 required third class passengers to be provided with seats instead of being forced to stand, is failure to provide seats to passengers on a train technically illegal?

Going up to Wigan on Friday evening, won't be able to come back until Saturday morning. Is going into Manchester on Friday evening & continuing down to Birmingham from there a valid route?

currently the stopping services between Birmingham and Coventry run through to Euston via Northampton, which seems to be a fairly wasteful use of capacity on the Southern WCML. Given the electrification of Coventry-Leamington Spa, would a better option not now be to remove stops north of...

As a thought, is there a business case for building a chord between the Perry Barr-Smethwick Rolfe Street line and the Snow Hill - Stourbridge line at Winston Green? This would a) allow North West - South Coast XC services to be diverted via Moor Street & Snow Hill, reducing congestion at...

Hi All Have passed through to the assessment centre stage of the MSc Investment Projects Graduate Scheme for NR. Has anyone got any experience of the assessment centre for this scheme? Also, anyone know where it'll be held?

Hi all anyone know which Leeds-Birmingham workings on Friday are allocated to HSTs and not to Voyagers? Would really like to avoid the Vomiter if possible.

Crossrail two should, very simply, not happen. Not while there are still pacers in the north, not while so-called 'main lines' between Britain's largest cities run with DMUs than can't average 60mph, not while railway lines desperately needed to serve the inflow of commuters into northern...

thinking about the congestion in south London, with the mix of both fast and slow passenger services into the centre, is it time to convert much of the south london suburban rail network to tube operation? In addition to a few ideas I've seen proposed: -Extending the Northern line from...

currently, Birmingham is fairly well served by the Centro network of urban trains, but I've been thinking recently, how could it be improved? A couple of thoughts: Reopen: Walsall-Lichfield via Brownhills Walsall-Stourbridge via Dudley Walsall-Coleshill Parkway via Sutton Coldfield...

Hi Guys anyone know when AP Singles on EC for Leeds-London on 10/03/12 will become available via www.eastcoast.co.uk? Same for AP singles for Leeds-Edinburgh on the same day.

tomorrow morning I'm going to a family event in Chorley, then travelling by road to Warrington. Will a Leeds-Preston return be valid via Warrington?

which lines would be good candidates for conversion to tube? A few thoughts Lea Valley Lines: Bethnal Green-Chingford/Enfield Town/Cheshunt. Taken over by Central line, and Victoria north of Walthamstow. Services north of Cheshunt to run via Stratford, with Stansted & Hertford East joining...

with TPX potentially being re-incorporated into Northern in the next set of franchising (if we get them any time soon), what does the future hold for TPX's routes? Personally I think there's definitely a market, post electrification, for upping the service from Leeds to Manchester to 6tph...

The Caldervale line is, to my mind, one of the most interesting in the country. It is hugely scenic, connects several small towns together, has a good deal of freight, but also serves as both a long-distance intercity and short-distance urban commuter railway. Considering the line as three...

I think it's obvious that most of the UK's rail network will eventually get wired. The obvious question to me is, where, and when it happens. I've had a think, and come up with this 1. Current projects: Great Western, Transpennine & North West, inc. Leeds-Hull, Cardiff Valley lines...

ok, so always been interested in very definitely urban metro-style railways, particularly those in the north of England. So here's some expansion ideas. Merseyrail Ormskirk-Preston Kirkby-Wigan Wallgate Kirkby-Bootle New Strand Bidston-Wrexham Central West Kirkby-Hooton via Heswall & Neston...

Hi Guys cheapest I can find this is about £30 towards the afternoon/early evening, anyone do any better? n.b. with a YP railcard.

so, word on the street seems to be that when Crossrail is done, HX will be absorbed, with some trains running fast from Paddington to HX from the core rather than into the high level platforms. If so, this obviously leaves the 332s redundant, and free to a good home. The obvious place for me...

Thinking about it, would it be beneficial for the UK to partially fund construction of LGVs on the contingent? Two examples of ones I think might come under this LGV Picardie (Calais-Amiens-Paris), taking 20 minutes off of the London-Paris journey time Calais-Ghent-Antwerp, providing a...

Just an idea here Electrify both the Dudding Hill line (reopening stations at Dudding Hill & Harlesden) and the Goblin-then run Barking-Ealing Broadway as part of London Overground via West Hampstead Thameslink and Cricklewood.