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I don't doubt the usefulness of announcing it once, but if you're travelling from Liverpool Street you hear it upon departure. And upon departure from Tottenham Hale. And upon departure from Bishops Stortford. Now, various people not going to the airport use the train, so surely the sensible...

I used the St Andrews Road request stop once - I just stuck my arm out and made eye contact. Those interested in request stops may enjoy the book Tiny Stations by Dixie Willis, wherein the author travels around something like 30 of the UK's request stops...

I didn't like office 2013 to start with, but it's grown on me. Regarding getting a cheap copy of Office, you might try at your work - I got a copy of Office 2013 for under £10 as part of the Microsoft Home Use Program. Ask your IT department.

To me that roughly sounds like the British electorate. Roughly equal numbers of people vote Tory and Labour, then Lib Dems/SNP/UKIP/Green/Plaid. there probably are more liberals in the country than conservatives (ideology not party). Consider that in the 2010 general election, the rough vote...

Hm, I'd always assumed it was to ease problems concerning clarity. "C" sounding too much like "D" and all that.

I always quite liked them. I have admittedly only travelled about 244 miles in them (and a large part of that was London to Grantham sitting in the vestibule) but they seemed decent trains to me. Regarding their use with FGW, I can't really see a better place for them with the franchise. They...

I've only travelled Stansted Express once, but I found it tedious due to the interminable security announcements being repeated in four different languages.

True, but the Voyagers were built around the same time and have significantly bigger windows. Admittedly the Pendolino is designed for 140mph operation rather than 125, but Eurostars are significantly faster and have larger windows. 390s are decent enough trains - they do what they do well...

Things were fine until I got to the Merseyrail platforms!

Perhaps, but then you're travelling on a bus.

No passenger train derailments in FY2014, and already there are two in FY2015.

Not relevant, but this topic has set me working on the distance I've travelled on each class of train (counting eg a trip with a paired 150/153 as a trip on a 150 and a 153 but on a pair of 150s as a single trip on a 150). I have apparently travelled 2076.17 miles on 220s, 2315.82 miles on 221s...

Voyagers aren't my favourite train, but they're far from my least favourite. I used to make fairly regular (every 6 weeks or so) trips between Nottingham and Bristol, and so I'd fairly regularly use Voyagers. At least until I learnt which services were HST sets, but that was so I could lean out...

There doesn't seem that much point in doing so - it's hard enough to imagine international passengers wanting to use Ebbsfleet, let alone Stratford. While the Javelins are a useful service which I have on occasion used from St Pancras to Stratford, stopping other STP trains at Stratford seems a...

Talk of a "semi-fast" Bristol to Oxford train seems a bit odd, as unless you're counting Lawrence Hill to Filton Abbey Wood (or Keynsham and Oldfield Park) there are no intermediate stops between the HST stations anyway. Any service that was running would I'd think need to be 125mph stock, as...

I had a bad experience at Liverpool Parkway, as a guard on a Merseyrail service threatened to have me arrested for taking photos.

It does intrigue me how different routes have different franchise designs. The Great Western has the one TOC operating regional and intercity. The West Coast has one TOC for regional and one for intercity, and another for suburban. The East Coast has one TOC for regional and suburban, then...

I don't usually need to take late trains from London, but when I do, 2300 is not late enough. A few years back I went from Nottingham to a gig at the IndigO2. There were about five or six different bands playing, and while I got to see the one I wanted I had to walk out immediately after...

I was on a train from Bristol to London during those delays. Unfortunately it only came in 53mins late so I can't claim compensation. It did leave me time to read a book and admire the electrification progress though.

Do you mean they have longer gears than the 158s/170s, and so can't accelerate so quickly? I do like the 222s, my suggestion out of those made would be either Chiltern, or CrossCountry after sending 221s to VWC. It does seem somewhat ironic that after all the fuss about there being...