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Whilst I agree with a lot of what you said, the branch can still be useful for the few days a year when there's a football match at Kassam Stadium! Whether you should spend all the money for let's say 10-15 trains a year is a completely different matter. Also I like your proposal. Cowley Road...

Probably airport stuff, although I would imagine they might be popular with Crawley residents who have early morning flights to catch.

With a) I agree except that if you are going to extend the current Chiltern Railways service from London Marylebone, you are going to need to completely rebuild Oxford Railway Station in order to allow platforms 1 & 2 to become through platforms. b) Good idea, although I'm also of the opinion...

A tramway for Oxford sounds like a nice idea, however my opinion is that the city is too small to justify the costs and expenses of building a tram. What would work best imo is the 400 bus route (Harcourt Hill - Seacourt P&R - Railway Station - City Centre - Oxford Brookes University -...

I also like capturing beautiful city architecture on my videos, so are the Q3 and 53/54 good routes for that seeing that they go through the heart of Newcastle City Centre?

Certainly good points to make, and I do agree with you on the final bit. The ticket inspector on the train I got on was kind and happily sold a ticket to some passengers who boarded at Evesham

Metrobus Crawley has permanent 24/7 routes just like London and Bristol. The routes in question are the Fastway 10 (Bewbush - Town Centre - Gatwick Airport), which runs every 30 minutes during the night, the Fastway 100 (Maidenbower - Redhill via Crawley, Gatwick Airport & Horley) which runs...

On bustimes.org I've noticed that Buses of Somerset still have one B7TL in service: 32603 (SF54 TKC). Wonder how long until it will be withdrawn. Likewise for Dennis Trident ELC Myllennium 32767 (WJ55 CTE) EDIT: 32603 withdrawn, but 32767 still in service! Also, is it true that 37151 (YN06...

Thanks for replying @zwk500 . Much appreciated and I'm certainly learning a lot! Now that I think about, I'd also say between Manchester-Liverpool via Chat Moss, Leeds to York (if it's not already 200 / 125) might also be good candidates as well! The former in particular does have a lot of...

Agreed. Everybody should pay for their ticket, absolutely, and doing before you board is the most efficient way of doing so. However if you are going to enforce this, always put clear signage as to where the ticket office or TVM is so people can avoid making the mistake of boarding without a...

Again, a thread where @zwk500 and @Bald Rick might be of most interest seeing that you guys appear to be experts on these sort of things! Anyway let's begin. Just like the electrification thread I started a few weeks ago, I thought I would create this thread to talk about which railway lines in...

Ahh that's good to know then, because I don't live in London I've never used one so that's why I mistakenly thought about smartcards not being able to be issue on a TVM (they certainly can't on Scheidt & Bachmann TVMs down here in Sussex or Oxfordshire, but I doubt TfL uses Scheidt & Bachmann)

There's also the issue when ticket machines are really hard to find at a small but penalty fared station. A perfect example is Evesham - when I last went there I saw penalty fare signage on the London bound platform and a ticket office on the Worcester/Great Malvern/Hereford bound platform...

Smartcards like Oyster or Ov Chipkaart can be a good alternative, but the problem is the cost of buying one before buying the ticket to be loaded on the smartcard, which would be of no use to occasional London travellers. Additionally, I don't think smartcards can be issued from ticket...

Some of these are all perfectly valid points as to why one might be in favour of abolishing Z1-6 Travelcards, however I'm still of the opinion that the benefit and convenience of Travelcards outweigh the minor inconveniences of the cost of producing paper, maintaining gatelines etc. Btw, what...

I've travelled to a lot of countries, and can think of even worse, more rip off places (Paris for example), however my point is that the UK can still be a rip off. 1681892101 So a British equivalent of an OV Chipkaart then?

I've been on Gothenburg's tram network, certainly a good tram system! Can be fun too in some bits, seeing it goes at rather high speeds. And I agree, Sweden is a lovely country. Wouldn't say it's my favourite but still a great country nevertheless.

Obviously! What's the point you're trying to make here? This message makes no sense whatsoever! P.S. Apologies for me being rude to you earlier - I could have handled the situation in a better way, which I'm doing right now and should have done earlier today.

Well, people who don't know the area too well and mistakenly go a longer way when they realise there's a quicker way? Ok maps are in place to mitigate this but doesn't stop a minority. Also, it's not just trainspotters. Even enthusiasts like me who like to ride on different kind of lines for...

Yeah I thought it wasn't the case. My mistake. We all learn something new you know, no need to be rude jeez 1681858609 You're right that this is certainly a solution, however another poster has correctly pointed out that an issue with oyster is with maximum journey times which would otherwise...