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Obviously would require the electrification of the line to work as a service, but in the case it did happen, would it be viable and useful? Something like: Finsbury Park, Stevenage, St Neots, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Werrington Parkway*, Littleworth*, Spalding, Donington*, Sleaford...

Genuine question.

As has been said previously, the work done between 1999 and 2002 was to upgrade the capacity of the station in terms of train throughput. Unfortunately no thought was given to the there being more people on those trains, something that has now happened. As a result of passenger growth Leeds City...

The case for nationalisation is actually very simple. The private companies make 3-5% profits (take into account ROSCOs as well as TOCs). That 3-5%, if not being creamed off by shareholders, could be either re-invested in the network or saved as subsidy reductions. Therefore, we are...

The entire debate around this issue is framed wrong. It consists not of an evaluation of the two options on their merits but an opposition to change, per se. You can see this from the fact that nobody defending the private sector has been able to pinpoint exactly what it is that private business...

The only solution I can see for speeding up Manchester - Leeds without seriously cutting local services is for a large amount of quadrupling. The alignment is built for 4 lines between Dewsbury and Diggle, as well as west of Stalybridge. That leaves Diggle - Stalybridge and Leeds - Dewsbury...

Word on the grapevine is a significant revamp of City station's north concourse, to include -Reclad of City House (the big office block) -Demolition of smaller office block -New glass roof & frontage for current concourse -expanded Travel centre & booking area -removal of the dummy...

Really there are some jobsworth TTIs on here. Can only see their rulebook and not the bigger picture. People make mistakes, like leaving a railcard at home. Massive penalty fares just mean they won't take the train next time - the PF revenue is wiped out by the lost custom in the long run...

Overcrowding on this route can be very great, even during the middle of the day, given traffic into Peterborough for northbound ECML connections. Add to that you've essentially 3 routes converging at Ely and heading on to Peterborough through March - from Norwich, from Ipswich and from...

should be taken out and preserved at the Riverside Museum.

Stations For (Re)Opening: Huddersfield Line Low Wortley White Rose Centre Longwood & Milnsbridge Golcar Caldervale Line New Wortley Armley Moor Laisterdyke Bradford Wakefield Road (on Bowling Curve) Low Moor Hipperholme Elland Luddendenfoot A&W Armley Canal Road...

This, precisely. Lincoln should have direct rail services to Leeds, Grimsby, Louth, Skegness, Boston, Peterborough, London, Grantham, Nottingham and Sheffield as a minimum. There's a huge amount of work needs doing on the Lincolnshire network as a whole to make it fit for purpose.

The reason patronage is so terrible is because the service is so awful. Having cut the vast majority of rail lines in the country and made having a car a necessity for living there, you really can't be surprised when a slow and uncomfortable train doesn't get people out of their cars. For...

Currently Lincoln gets a pretty shoddy service for a city of nearly 100,000 people, and the main centre of all of Lincolnshire. Despite this, there's got to be some way of improving services to Lincoln. A few thoughts below: Lincoln - London via GNGEJ Extend the current fast FCC...

Hi All Does anyone have the timetables for Leeds-London services in 2004? I'd be interested to know when the first train to London on a weekday departed Leeds, and when the final train from London arrived back in Yorkshire.

New Street suffers the serious problem of being both the centre of an intensively-served urban rail network and a key intercity hub. Although HS2 will alleviate some pressure there, the difficult of fitting regular non-stop intercity services into an 'every 10 minutes' local timetable will...

I think two things need to be made clear. Firstly, I have a fully valid railcard, which I believed was in my wallet at all points up till I went to get it and it wasn't there. That's my mistake, but I was in no way trying to get away with buying a ticket absent of that railcard. Second, the...

I think the better railway is one where guards don't run down their trains to berate their passengers, but that may just be me.

Wow. A guard acts, in the words of one of the people sat next to me, as a '****', berates a passenger, and the only care is that he correctly applied the rules? As everyone sat around me agreed - if those are the rules, the rules are wrong. An innocent mistake shouldn't get such a harsh...

Quite potentially he's technically correct. I don't care, I didn't realise I didn't have my railcard on me, had I done so I'd have paid for the £6.50 ticket. It's abhorrent that instead of paying £2.20 more I'm asked to pay an extra £9.10 for a ticket I'm not using. I also object to being...