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It doesn’t really follow anything, there’s a large gap leaving Marylebone on the mainline 9:30. By 11 it’s at Hatton, there is a relatively close sequence of XC, this and a regular Chiltern to Birmingham. Maybe it’s the best they can do in off and shoulder peak.

These two are new in December. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:Y00117/2026-12-14/detailed Marylebone 9:30 - Stratford 11:18 https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:Y00199/2026-12-14/detailed Stratford 14:32 - Marylebone 16:40 Plus the two existing late night slow services...

Team Valley trading estate is 3km long, it’s bigger than Newcastle city centre. Stations placed regularly, so that a destination is at most ten minutes walk away, are for denser regions. People should do what people have done for over a century: use a bus or have a bike for their station-work...

That space is too narrow for a platform, let alone one to relieve the Elizabeth line (or next to a 125mph main line). It also means crossing the relief line, which may mean it causes more capacity issues than it could solve. I don’t know about the progress of those two, but they are the...

You can look on satellite maps, traksy, carto metro and more to see that the third track ends a little west of the dive under. No, not really viable. To make it possible it would be necessary to add the third line you were imagining, shifting the central line north, possibly redoing the North...

Can you better define where things are going? The railway and wider world can’t adapt to unknowable things. Downplaying the success of a reopening seems to be a distraction from pointing out the future that could be freed from remaking suburbs the way they were. In the meantime, for the present...

Office jobs at the usual 8/9-4/5 hours in the usual central locations is what trains do best, and can ramp up the frequency to make the trip more appealing. But industrial estates are too scattered, low density, with more variation in journey times for the same to be applied in a cost effective...

Could you quote any relevant person saying that, before we have a storm of criticism? It’s not in the article.

Does this involve licensing the blueprints from the original train builders? Some of these trains are platforms that are used worldwide, so the original builders have better economies of scale for making new parts and employing the talent to diagnose issues.

The NR press release quoted above suggests weekend closures in September and early October, or longer if there are more than two teams at work.

Has anyone, ideally professionals, published an idea of what upstairs arrivals would look like? Does it need a funnel for police to see everyone? No, the juxtaposed controls means both UK and Schengen staff must be present.

There should be some services to connect Longcross and westwards to Staines and Richmond, but if people want to skip those then don’t go that way. For Windsor line only destinations, does the current semi-fast setup work for Bracknell passengers?

Put a chord at Virginia Water, allowing fast services from Weybridge to reach Longcross. Shame about Weybridge junction being flat. But fixing that too may be cheaper than any tunnel.

Can that change, so they accept scans in both directions when the barriers are open? Staff the main gateline all day long, with that staff member remotely watching the others.

Once the mislaid blame for others has been taken out of the equation, what’s left is hindsight. What was it before the inflation?

Lock the windows shut on relevant days and see what difference that makes before spending any money. It’ll be easier to say what’s worth adding to fares after that. Edit: upon re reading this I don’t know what I was saying. Was I thinking of people opening windows on buses cooled with AC?

What's the plan for the roundabouts? The other direction of traffic? They aren't cranes or crane operators, which is one major expense. It sounds unusual for NR to not want full ownership. If there were a station in south Stratford, it might be called Stratford Racecourse. Would people be...

Verstappen went off in the dry, but he's just an untalented newbie, so that doesn't count. The safety of the people outside cars matters too. They reduce risk by not putting marshalls in places where cars go off the track at high speed.

Yes. Every lap after the parade lap counts. Giving backmarkers extra fuel by letting them run one less lap is inconsistent treatment to the field.

That bit doesn’t sound right. I don’t know how the funding and income deals will work, but I’d look at the Barnett formula for Scotland as a starter. Someone judges the relevant percentage of stake of the local gov, they have that much money due, that portion of the board/decision making power...