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I don't read print papers. I get some weekly/fortnightly magazine. Sometimes flick through metro/standard online. Majority is read online from a range of newspaper sites and other sources. It's better for a broad variety of perspectives and levels of depth.

How do you work that out? Several TOCs are owned overseas.

I guess Kings Lynn was a local service - quick timetable turnaround and minimal train prep. (Such as driver switching ends, and if lucky, someone doing a quick tidy up of paper and bottles) Intercity is a different matter - inbound might have been late and there is significant prep associated...

Compensation is misleading. It's actually partial refund/credit based on performance. For a long list of reasons, it's impossible to calculate the actual loss/damages (some people are on e.g. much higher hourly rates than others, how do you price missing a kid's birthday party etc.). So it's...

Variations could be made to work on Thameslink North. In practice, you wouldn't have all trains as all stations south of St Albans because with starts at Bedford, Luton and St Albans that's a lot. And 18 months would be far too long to cope with it! And because there are fast and slow lines...

Ummm, there are a lot living outside Bury Park as well. Although it is unreasonable to want to be within walking distance of a religious centre if you take your religion seriously and don't drive? Perhaps the most illustrative example is the mix of councillors...

I'm not sure concrete cows really count as culture either. Or that Milton Keynes fares much better. Luton has a significant population working in London - you head there for big theatre and art. Luton's cultural distinction is the UK Centre for Carnival Arts. But that probably runs contrary to...

No I'm not. I actually live here unlike almost every other poster. (And between myself and my family have broad experience - immediate family work in local education, social care and health support services.) Right. https://www.lutonculture.com/ There is inward investment, but it's different...

It really does seem to be still getting worse...I've spotted increasing references to police being called to deal with passenger disruption as well.

Yes - I can see how the raging debate rather escalated. Nevertheless there is some (but not all) tosh. (And I’m very familiar with Marsh Farm, with family living there and attending school there, and with the wide diversity of Luton's population). Your point about social cohesion is odd though...

And who would let anyone else have their season ticket it - you tend to need it yourself!

Ummm, because it’s the southern equivalent of an ex-Northern mill town. Used to have a hatting industry (millinery) and significant manufacturing including cars - Vauxhall used to employ 30k which is a significant loss. Wave after wave of immigration (actually more so than most Northern towns)...

But it wasn't an even internal service before and it's not a clockface timetable after. GTR runs 3600 trains per day and provides nearly 25% of UK rail journeys (allegedly) so it's a rather bigger challenge than most operators. Pretty much all their services have to deal with the chaos of...

Luton definitely isn't a city. But with a significant population (especially if you add on Dunstable and Houghton Regis), an airport, and a university - it's a more significant centre than many cities. The stations are impossible for a loop. Would need to look between stations and there really...

This weekend was chaos on eurostar passenger wise - St P was packed. Not sure outbound will be quite so bad on the Monday morning but it's not a journey I've done for a long time. When I last went to Aix les Bains which is in the general region that was fortunately direct from Paris. The...

It's a captive audience. Commuting traffic is high - Luton and Bedford actually have pockets of affordability compared to St Albans, let alone out London. School traffic is reasonable. No real alternatives. off-peak traffic/against peak flow is generally into London so relatively captive...

Commuters are a pretty experienced bunch. We’ve usually sorted out what works for us. With the exception of impractical items like cups of tea… As someone else on the thread say, commuters do a very basic things: talk to a friend/partner work on laptop drink tea/coffee read/play/music on phone...

One train isn't a enough of a sample - semi-empty trains are seen going past. Multiple Thameslink trains are crush loading. Some people can't even get on the trains, let alone forego what feels like a relative luxury of using the loo/bin/etc.

Fun and games for the last few nights has been the online train planners showing mythical stops at City Thameslink long after the station has closed. It gets added to the planners and then eventually cancelled for that stop.

I did however actually see a Peterborough bound train at City Thameslink today. Cue confused tourists half getting on it and off again. And *then* a Bedford-bound service a mere two minutes later. It was like a 3 minute miracle of a timetable that might work one day.