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I'll just quietly add my NO! to the list. Nothing is guaranteed more to put the majority off travelling by rail than compulsory reservations. The last thing you want to do is add the stress of being tied to an exact time to domestic travel, for the convienience of the operator.

Fun fact. The line from Exeter to Crediton (and on to Barnstaple) was originally built to broad gauge, and later converted to standard gauge after the LSWR took a controlling interest. Don't think broad gauge ever extended on the Okehamnpton part though, which came later.

Actually the opposite is true. It costs a huge amount of money to build and maintain the mobile network. You have a massive number of towers and transceivors that have to be spread out over the whole country, including very remote areas. This takes a high capital cost to build (which requires...

Don't forget that whilst households are tending to have fewer children, we are also seeing an increasing number of elderly people living with their offspring, a trend that is likely to continue with the demographic changes evident for the past few decades and increasing cost of social care.

So the member for the nineteenth century is now the minister for fantasy.

Possibly the more relavant numbers would be the website views. Press Gazette. Physical newspapers are largely a thing of the past. This puts the Guardian in the Top 3. Of course, it should be noted that a lot of online newspapers are behind paywals of some sort, so it's hard to judge how much...

Strangely, I'd like to see Rees Mogg do it, so that there are no excuses about Brexit failing because it was not completed by a 'true believer', plus he would be electoral poison for them :lol:. My money would be on Javid though.

Thats kind of my point with a swappable battery pack. You have a smaller one suitable for 15-20 miles, and swap it out en-route rather than lug the whole lot all the way. There is obviously a trade off between weight of battteries carried, range, and time needed to swap the units. Complete...

I think the easiest way, if you are designing a system from scratch would be as follows. Design a train with a compartment at one end with wide access doors. Create a battery pack sufficient to propel the train that is mounted on a industy standard pallet. This can then be loaded at the platform...

Medieval knights were little better though. Most were mercenaries and warlords who made their money from warfare, pillage and the exploitation of serfdom.

Not sure what P&R is? The use case would be mostly for Henley people working or shopping in Reading (largest town nearby), plus onward travel from Reading and tourists and students (for the college) coming to Henley. The off peak fare is typically cheaper than parking in Reading for shopping for...

100% agree. Hence why I would like to see the Henley - Twyford service extended to Reading.

Actually my milkman does seem to be using either a battery or hybrid one, it's very quiet when it pulls away.

I'm probably biased, but I do feel the Henley branch could be better. It's lost the morning/evening direct trains to London completely now, missed out on electrification and right (post covid) now the timetable is only hourly. What would provide a big improvement locally would be reversing at...

Wouldn't a short spur to allow the branch to join the line in a westerly direction be a lot cheaper and easier to do? Looks like there is a spur from the branch that almost touches the line at that point.

Unlikely. I don't think they will make that mistake again in a hurry after the catastrophic result for them last time round. Besides, after Johnson is ousted the tories are likely to get a hardline right winger who would have nothing to offer to the Libs Dems since no Tory will offer PR or...

He was a career politition, his career ended abruptly the day result was announced. He bet everything on winning that referendum and putting the Europe issue to bed, and would have remained PM if that had happened. Instead he disappeared without trace. She actually won the first round of the...

Thatcher didn't resign of her own accord. She was forced out by a stalking horse challenge and a long queue of her own ministers all told her she had to go after the chaos of the poll tax. She famously wanted to go "on and on". Cameron resigned after leading the remain side to defeat in his own...

Not in england :lol: Seriously though, thanks to FPTP it would take a huge swing for them to ever get more than a handful of seats. The question for them now is whether they will retain their current wins and also beat off the challenge from the greens who could still take the protest vote...

Got any evidence that they "encouraged racist views"?