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I've needed to use the Hainault branch quite a bit over the last month, and it's been common to encounter an interval of >10 minutes, followed by three trains within five minutes. On the one occasion I needed the half-hourly Woodford shuttle service at Hainault, it didn't wait for intending...

Fair point.

Yes, it’s worth complaining. Avanti would struggle to argue catering is complimentary, because all other aspects of the first class experience can be had for a lower outlay in Standard Premium. Ask for some money back.

Agree, and I think this adds to the case for the LTC, on the basis 20% (or whatever) of the traffic currently using Dartford will gravitate to the new crossing, making cross-river journey times - car or bus - more predictable.

After the original Dartford Tunnel opened, a bus service dubbed Thames Weald Tunnel Express operated, from Romford to Sevenoaks. At various times there were different termini both north and south of the river, but the gist of the service remained the same. I think it lingered on until the late...

Excellent news. Happy to pay a toll if it expedites the construction and we get a high quality stretch of road. Hopefully the more robust approach to planning adopted by the new government will see-off the newts'n'bats mob in short order.

I would have thought noise travelling from the passenger compartment behind the cab was an unavoidable occupational hazard. Football crowds, hen/stag parties, business people on loud calls, kids playing TikTok videos, excited children, drunken arguments etc. All stuff that bus drivers encounter...

With the prevalence of lower speed limits - 20mph in urban areas, and 40 or 50 on many A-roads that used to be 60mph - then for some less confident drivers 60mph now feels fast, or too fast, away from the motorway network. At night time I drive more cautiously on A-roads than I did 20 years ago...

My hometown was Hornchurch in the east London suburbs. When I return I’m struck by the increased volume of traffic, and the rude impatience of many drivers. Plus the change in the mix of retail outlets from ‘butcher, baker and candlestick maker’ to nail bars, vape shops and Turkish barbers – but...

Unfortunate for anyone who’d booked first class tickets.

I recall - we're talking late 90s/early noughties - a minibus route through the Rotherhithe Tunnel. Something like Shadwell - Surrey Quays, so it didn't extend far on either bank of the Thames. Mercedes Sprinter type vehicles, I think, that only just squeezed through the tunnel width...

As the OP mentioned Upminster... until March of last year the 346 ran Upminster Station - Upminster Park Estate, with a one-way journey taking less than 10 minutes at quieter times of the day, albeit the route operated as a loop. The 346 has since been extended considerably, to Harold Hill, so...

I suggest, if the railway stocks WD40, it would best be deployed on the hinges of the seat back tables in the 2+3 sections of sub-classes 377/2, 377/4 and 377/5, before it's squirted over the lesser squeaks of the 379s.

Interesting as a record of how the national media has changed. This is not content that would be produced today, even on a niche satellite/Freeview channel. We still get some programming which looks at issues from a consumer perspective, but it's rare to see in-depth analysis viewed from a...

I estimate there were at least 80 paying visitors at the Spa Valley Railway today, including a groomsman's party dropped-off specially at High Rocks (not Groombridge!), and another booked and catered party occupying half a coach for one round trip. Very good for a gloomy day in February with...

I'm not convinced of the need to run the BL1 up to Waterloo given the Bakerloo line, and other bus routes, already cover the section from Elephant & Castle well. I'd add some mileage at the southern end, instead - Catford, maybe.

Selling the high street stores doesn't mean they'll close, though I expect many will. This is being positioned as a solvent trade sale and not an insolvency (of the high street business) from what I've read. If a purchaser thought there was value in the brand, I expect WHS (ongoing) would be...

The issue for the specialist magazine trade, if WHS disappear from the high street, will be in letting people know their product exists. The breadth of titles stocked by WHS, and the ability to browse, will be how many of us were introduced to our favourite magazines and then became regular...

A worrying development for what remains of the magazine trade.

£29 to travel 150 miles in 2+1 seating, enjoying some beautiful scenery, is... pretty good value, before any consideration of catering. (This doesn't appear to be a one-off, as the same fare is available for next Tuesday.) The usual offer is/was a cooked breakfast, I believe? I'm struggling to...