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I'm sure the companies that own heritage trains would be keen to do more day trips of this type if there was a market for it, perhaps using refurbished pacers and sprinters once the latter start to be sold off by the TOCs. But is there enough demand to make this profitable?

I'd be happy with that, if the converse applies - if there are empty seats there should be no full price tickets.....

A few years ago I got a season ticket which over the months gradually faded until it was unreadable. I always got the impression the gate staff who had to peer at the ticket thought this was somehow my fault.

The fair comparison is when one end of a door to door journey is in Edinburgh (or a few miles round) and the other is in Greater London. I would imagine air still wins but not by nearly 3 to 1 as in the story. Of course journey time is the big factor but I wonder whether airlines are better at...

. That's if you have a group of 4 that are travelling together - whereas the average load in a car is about 1.5. Car hire has its own pitfalls, notably the huge excess for damage/theft (£1000).

. Interesting question. Google doesn't reveal anything - the answers given to why they lasted so long talk about the robustness of the structure which is of course irrelevant to the reason why the stones weren't nicked and used elsewhere (perhaps they were too big to be of use?). Rome's ancient...

There certainly was - in 1938, immediately after nationalisation. In what was euphemistically called "co-ordination", a large number of passenger train services were replaced by buses, and bus services were withdrawn where they directly competed with trains, the logic being that the state ran...

. The platforms are still there. The area is rather bleak and desolate so I'm not sure where the passengers would come from.

That's a bit ahistorical. Huge amounts of money were made available via the 1955 Modernisation Plan which delivered the WCML electrification but much of it was misspent on inadequately tested diesel traction and marshalling yards that quickly became white elephants.

Thanks :-)

In fact I'm surprised more passengers don't get left on the train having expected the doors to open on their own :-)

This thread seems to be based on a misconception, that is, that in the 19th Century the wall was more or less continuous between Carlisle and Newcastle. It wasn't!

Ditton Junction which is not far from my home and closed in 1992 - and I never used it!

The first time I saw a trolley on a train was between Ostend and Brussels in 1981.

I keep on seeing comments on various railway websites to the effect of France never having had a Beeching axe.... oh yes it did!

Seville has 2 bus stations for inter city services, and Granada has 1. None are particularly central and are some distance from the railway station. In each case local services just stop at various locations in the city rather than at a station. As far as Germany is concerned - I remember when...

Hi folks. I intend to travel from Victoria to Tolworth next week. Can I use my contactless debit card? Thanks.

I have a vision of a Chancellor (of either party) broadcasting from the smoking ruins of a nuked London saying "At least we've reduced the budget deficit to zero!"

Edit: London to Bristol with Europcar - I have found a quote for £170 - Budget quote was only £36 - with an extra £32 for damage excess reduction. Pays to shop around obviously....

I have been told that people who are natives of Greenwich pronounce it "Green-ich" rather than "Gren-ich" but that may be an urban myth.