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You are Chris Grayling and I claim my £5. Based on your way of thinking, there'd be very few railway lines left and no trains to run on them. You clearly have no concept of the meaning of the term "public transport".

Hopes: Government stops using TOCs as proxy organisations to smash the power of the unions Unions stop using strike action as the first resort DfT is stopped from micro-managing the railway and specifying what trains should be built & how uncomfortable they should be for passengers Thameslink...

I was expecting to receive something like that too. I even asked the ticket seller if the ticket was complete and she made a phone call to check. Maybe it was because I bought the ticket at my local station rather than one in the rover ticket area.

Had a few days out last year using the East Midlands Rover (3 days in 7) ticket. You're right that it didn't work in any of the barriers. Only problem was that there was nowhere on the ticket to show which days it had been used. In the olden days, the ticket was like a scratch card and you had...

Your suggestions for east and south east extensions would be a good idea, but it would be a nightmare to send any additional trains into Bank. The station is overcrowded enough at present, especially with "headless chicken" tourists with wheeled suitcases during rush hour going to City Airport...

Yes, don't those awful passengers know the unit they're standing in front of is wearing the new franchise colours and their cheap Primark clothing is clashing awfully. :D

Without wanting to turn this into another thread on the appalling 700s, the ambiance could be improved straight away by softening the "operating theatre-style" lighting and warming up the grey-blue-grey interior. It doesn't matter how much GTR get fined, they've no financial interest in making...

Not improving the "image" of railway enthusiasts at all. It seemed to be that the aggressive person was in some way objecting to where the "victim" was standing on the platform. Perhaps he was standing where he'd be in all their photographs of oncoming trains. As a photographer myself, it is...

No more silly than a £15 million "fine".

Good idea. Perhaps to avoid there being a shortage of trains all the rolling stock could be owned by one company too and moved around to the routes where it's most needed. You could have a single set of management too, nationally and the same livery with a single national timetable, where trains...

Perhaps they're going to spend £15 million on scatter cushions for the Class 700s to make the travelling experience a little more comfortable. They probably spend £15 million per year on post-it notes and meaningless posters on their trains saying how good things are going to be if we just wait...

It's not a bad thing that more is being spent now than under BR, it's a bad thing when they try to spin it as though privavtisation has cost the public purse less money and that any improvements are solely down to the effect of their political dogma.

A very interesting free-market suggestion. I think you'll find that the taxpayer is buying the services of police officers, nurses, junior doctors, train, tube and bus drivers as well as other jobs crucial to the effective operation of the metropolis. Don't forget that those people commuting...

Most people who commute in and out of London aren't commodity traders on seven-figure salaries. Most jobs in London pay a bit more than those in the provinces, but not enough to allow people to live in London. It isn't a lifestyle choice to commute, it's a necessity to be able to afford to own a...

I'd like to see some independent study looking a the impact of railway staff wage rises on fares. I'm willing to wager that as a percentage of the overall increase, staff pay rises form a very small amount. Don'f forget, the Tories delight in the demonisation of Trades Unions and are highly...

There's no bigger picture than providing the timetabled service to the paying passengers and prioritising services for the greatest passenger loadings. That means getting the trains to run on time in the first place and after that having appropriate recovery measures which inconvenience the...

Well Blackfriars is so nice now it got to star in a Mission Impossible film. Nothing can be ascribed to privatisation because we don't know whether BR would have done better or worse had it been showered with cash in the same way as the "privatised" railway has by Central Government. I haven't...

Let's not get involved in an argument over whether a particular seat is or isn't reserved. I think we can all agree that the Class 170s in both two and three car versions are unsuitable for any XC journeys. I think it boils down to the operators of the franchise being unable (or perhaps...

This. I was on the train and the explanation was that the driver requested platform three as platform 1 wasn't sufficiently long to accommodate the whole train to allow all doors to be released.

Well that's another reason not to have to schlepp up the A1 and have to park my car at the side of the road for a dreary ride in non-authentic carriages to the arse end of Peterborough.