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As the crow flies Swanage Pier is only 7 miles from Poole Station. I'd go for the Poole Harbour Emirates Airway with intermediate stations at Brownsea Island and Studland Bay, be a huge tourist attraction in its own right, environmentally friendly and generate local employment.

The obvious reason why it won't happen is that nobody is going to pay the subsidy for mainline stock to come to operate at a maximum of 25 mph over 9 miles and 77 chains of exheritage railway. The losses on the service of a year round service would be eye watering and make the SRCs loss look peanuts

I believe that the freeholder of the majority of the Swanage Branch is Dorset CC or its successor who will be a statutory authority. I'm uncertain that Network Rail can actually compulsory purchase the property of a statutory authority. In reality these sort of things would be agreed between...

That's really how the M20 was done. The Maidstone bypass was built as the A20(M) before being absorbed in to Junctions 5 to 8 of the M20. The spur road to the A20 at junction 8 is the old motorway terminus including the overbridge. The A20 Ashford bypass was absorbed in to the M20 for a section...

Surely the trial was optimised to maximise the income whilst minimising the costs. If you'd offered early morning and late evening services you'd have been unable to run the service with a single crew which would have made the bottom line even more disastrous. Ive never had any dealings with...

I'd suggest that if you wanted a sleeper service from the Southwest to Scotland at minimum loss it would start from Exeter, Tiverton Parkway, Taunton, Bristol Parkway, Swindon, Reading, London Ealing Broadway, Luton Airport Parkway, Leicester, East Midlands Parkway, Sheffield, Leeds, Newcastle...

The Haywards Heath issue was damage to equipment caused during the weekend engineering works which as a result overran. It was temporarily repaired with 1 platform oou. The Littlehampton train was on time departing LA and arriving at West Worthing but 15 down leaving Worthing for reasons unknown.

At the K&ESR we do have quite a few younger volunteers. It's also a generational thing. We have a lot of father and son/ daughter or Grandparent & Grandchildren. Our marketing manger is the Grand daughter of the guard of the last br passenger train.

Its where you put the code in for the Tesco Clubcard voucher, bluelight discounts etc.

It was the replay from this match, Pompey drew with Burnley on the Saturday so had to replay on the Tuesday Afternoon there being no floodlights then:

I don't actually shop around that much actually but probably use different retailers depending on what I'm buying. If you're spending a significant amount on same day purchases its difficult to ignore the 5% cashback plus 1.3 virgin points per £ via American Express and train line I enjoy till...

I'm told by a reputable source that the link as is was put in as a tick box exercise on the hs1 contract and that when it was originally planned that a major rebuild of the nll and Camden Road Station would have been required to enable passenger trains to have run through. This I think was the...

Doesnt that really tie the customer to one retailer though. I shop around for the best deal on tickets using cashback etc or airlines airmiles etc. I dont particularly want to use a retailer to buy a railcard unless theres a good deal. 1708014413 from the number of 16-25 railcards I see from...

Neither Ebbsfleet or Stratford are big enough stations to terminate start a full Eurostar from. They would also need to run ECS to/from St Pancras to reverse.

HMForces railcards have only ever been issued by the military units I as a deduction from pay. Veterans Railcards are I believe a commercial product paid for by the Veterans agency (ministry of defence). Neither have ever been available at stations as far as I know, its got nothing to do with TPRs.

I dont think the hs1/nll link is actually signalled to passenger standards. The tracks dont appear to have been used for sometime. and i think it has only ever been used for engineering vehicles under possesion. It would require some very specialist passenger vehicles able to run on br ac/hs1...

The fastest route from Bournemouth to Eastleigh Station is via Junction 5 of the M27 past Southampton Airport Parkway. I doubt the buses will go on the M3.

Isn't that what Ashford International and Calais Frethun were for? Both closed by Eurostar without any public consultation whatsoever.

The answer is Yes. I'd be very surprised if the costs of the mainline railway haven't risen similarly. Most secondary lines on national rail must now be absolute basket cases financially.

Have brand new trains been procured without ASDO. Really?