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It's no more fantasy than the £100bn successive governments seem to be willing to spend on the Albino Pachyderm Line just so they can get to Brum twenty minutes quicker. I can only imagine the number of Tory donors' palms that are being greased by way of lucrative contracts to knock down homes...

So pour a bit of concrete and lengthen the platforms. There's no shortage of the stuff when it comes to spunking it on the HS2 white elephant. There's a lot of "not invented here" attitude on this forum. What we need is a "how can we make things better for more passengers?" attitude...

So you're against the creation of additional skilled jobs on the railway then ...

Weren't the pre-Pendolino services run as push-pull with a loco at one end and a DVT at the other? That solves the problem of having to release locos at termini. Just get the driver to walk to the other end of the train (once they've had their PNB of course). Or better still, employ a few more...

Sorry about the misty-eyed bit. I just want to ride in proper trains with comfy seats which line up with the windows. If they have to be EMU or DMU or hybrid that shouldn't be an excuse to make the passenger accommodation sub standard.

It would have been better to allow the Luftwaffe to completely destroy the UK rail network in the same way that the RAF and USAAF destroyed the German, Dutch and French network. Then we'd have had to use the Marshall Aid money we got from the USA after the war to rebuild, as the latter three...

Any consultation should be meaningful and those groups giving it should find out whether any of their suggestions are taken up as well as why those that aren't were discounted.

Sorry, just spat my coffee over my keyboard. MML (EMT) trains monopolise the fast lines south of Bedford to the detriment of the thousands of daily Thameslink commuters. Thameslink services are now slower than before since stoppers and semi-fasts mostly have to share the slow lines between...

For once, this doesn't seem to be GTR's fault (but they still have to react appropriately). As they say: "It has been discovered that this is the result of flooding within the tunnels that operate through Central London and specialist teams are currently onsite and are attempting to drain and...

Seconded ...

Good luck to the C50A. Nothing better than seeing locos on the main line. I'm all for a bit of nostalgia but variety is the spice of life and I'll definitely be out there looking to get some shots. GB Railfreight have an admirable track record of painting things in interesting liveries. (Whisper...

As has oft been quoted on here, you can't run trains into the bay platforms at Blackfriars from London Bridge - seems like a ludicrous oversight when the layout was planned, but ho-hum, Network Fail.

I don't know if you're familiar with the geography, but Flitwick is about 9 miles away from Arlesey and there's no connecting bus service or taxi rank at Arlesey Station. In reality, there's a limited amount of things that can be done straight away when a fatality happens, but there seems to be...

The Class 91s were designed for 140 mph but it was decided that the service didn't need anything more than 125 mph and as I seem to remember, it would have involved costly resignalling. The Class 67s were designed to achieve 125 mph but NR didn't want their nasty 4-wheeled bogies to damage...

I'm not disagreeing with you, or those who genuinely need accessible public transport. There should be a requirement to consider the needs of all users, which includes making sure there's a train to run the service in the first place and that it should have comfortable seats and not bombard...

Why scrap perfectly serviceable trains because they fail to meet an artificially imposed requirement to be accessible for reduced mobility passengers. Now I agree that it would be admirable to ensure that 100% of the country's rolling stock is fully accessible, but that isn't possible yet.

Seems to me that the industry, because of it's artificially fragmented nature, has forgotten how rolling stock used to be cascaded to obtain maximum use out of older, but perfectly serviceable stock. These days TOCs seem to be hypnotised by the lure of shiny new units (no doubt at higher lease...

That's kind of true, but the railway barons made a lot of money out of the shareholders who put up the money for the speculative and often opportunistic new railway lines. Sometimes the schemes prospered and the shareholders saw a return, but sometimes the schemes didn't do so well (often...

Until the Tories deregulated bus services the cross-subsidy from profitable urban routes run by NBC and its predecessors BET & Tilling Groups enabled services to be provided in rural areas operated by the same bus companies that wouldn't have been profitable if they'd had to fund themselves...

But Rainham - Luton calling at all stations is a ridiculous end to end service. No one in their right mind would ride it end to end. Just because it's possible to run a service doesn't mean it should be run. If anything, it would make sense to run all stations to St Pancras from Rainham (or...