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I had a look at the "fully flexible" ticket (I live near the trial area) and it seems that it loses a lot of the route flexibility by becoming LNER-only and requiring journeys to be via Peterborough.

Once the inbound train is in the platform, the passengers should be allowed to approach the train and where the reservations are "on", there is no reason not to allow boarding.

Whichever one it is, ASLEF have reacted badly to minimum service levels and that just makes them look like sore losers.

ASLEF's timing just makes it look like they are throwing their toys out of the pram. That is how it looks.

You expect to be able to show up and basically get on with a ticket, and a seat with a reservation. You do not expect to be bossed around by incompetent so-called security. This is not going to go down well with those of us who do and will pay train fares just to avoid having to deal with the...

Was that before or after they decided to let the Nova 3s go?

At least it is not a real thing yet, but thread-level OP is quoting the London Evening Standard... so someone knows something is coming?

I was in the Old Oak Common area earlier this year and compared to other terminal areas, there is very little there especially if there is an incident that causes one side of the service to have to "tip out" rather than change trains.

With a track record like that, Alstom Derby does have problems that they need to address anyway. There is probably a large element of 'the system' involved.

You can't be sure that the SMS has gone from the phone to the person. So you need to call. 1696642734 Also the whole thing about phone calls just shows how subjective 'antisocial behaviour' really is. If you have only a short time with no advance planning, then you would definitely need to use a...

Plus two of them are four-rail (shared with the LU Bakerloo Line and a turnback facility).

It depends what they do with those lines, if there is some improvement on those lines then it might not be so bad after all, especially if it speeds up other trains as well.

HS2 was already a long way round to places like York (and beyond). For the east side, only a second line would be worthwhile. 30 mins off a journey to Newcastle would not be enough to encourage people to railhead there to go to London.

It can be done; The displays on Chester-le-Street front street normally just show timetables, but today they were showing notices about a current bus driver strike and an abridged timetable with at least some of the services that were still running (X12, 25, 71).

What is DAS and (how) is that supposed to affect train driving?

Presumably, the reservation display would be the first go-to. The enforceability of the reservation depends on it.

Ah, but what milage are they travelling, and are they on or off peak (versus before)?

If it was at Ilford and, talking hypothetically it was OK, would that not be a better location from which to reach the Goblin line (via Channelsea Junction, then Temple Mills) than Willesden TMD (requires at least one reverse even for the NLL unless you go right through to Channelsea).

The basis of charging for luggage on trains is different to luggage charging on planes where every kilogram of luggage means that the airline has to buy extra fuel and maybe factor in changes to the plane's weight as a proportion of total weight and/or centre of gravity, whereas the same weight...

They are setting themselves up to be recorded on video, which may then be pejoratively edited before being put on the internet.