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I am sure I am missing something, but it appears to do an unnecessary trip up and down the line from Latchford to Ditton? It does not appear to involve a triangle junction or anything to turn the rake round.

What an incredibly strange reply. You have really read what you want to in this. In absolutely no part of my passage did I write or pass a judgement on 'approving' of flying. I do not judge anybody else for flying. In fact, if you had read my previous inputs here you would know that I think...

Someone with a pattern - regular commuters or with those a regular route/set of routes. E.g. those who commute to a larger corporate office or HQ etc. Relatively senior (but not so senior that the boring bits of travel is farmed out to someone more junior). Also I would suggest people who do...

The experience on board is just one small part of the differentiation, though. Food on short haul is not really the decider for me, unless there is literally no other difference in departure airport, time, destination airport. Airport food has got a lot better, or eat in the lounge. This...

I wouldn't call it proper food particularly. It's not a full meal, by any stretch of the imagination. A slightly upgraded snack is more like it. Complementary food is not the only differentiator between LCCs and the legacies. Network, frequency, loyalty status, corporate accounts are also...

I definitely did not realise there were weekly MOD trains. In fact, I thought the rail connection to Longtown had been severed. Perhaps things just slow down in the summer like other industries.

There was, at some point not so long ago, a train of 'metal' (not sure if scrap?) in VGA vans running from Burton to Cardiff. There's a couple of pictures here (not mine, of course) from Martin Loader's website. http://www.hondawanderer.com/66011_Claydon_2023.htm &...

Thanks a lot for the advice. It's not a problem to return via Bath and Chippenham, but just whether I can save myself a trip up to Parkway. I think I may now have used all the possible permutations of getting from Bristol to London. I have a regular but infrequent commitment here and the last...

Sorry for this doubtless silly question. I have a super off-peak return from Paddington to Parkway. A change of plans might mean that I am now nearer Temple Meads for my return. Would I be allowed to start from Temple Meads? The barriers were open at Parkway, so perhaps I entered there...

I didn't know that it had run that often, that's interesting. Were the trains you had filmed well loaded? 1725029264 I think I had read somewhere that Marchwood was being used to store intermodal flats beyond those used by the MOD. Given that the train ran to Trafford Park, an intermodal...

That's definitely the latest one, and this did not get further than one train to my knowledge. The 'China train' still runs from around these parts somewhere, but not to the UK. The end of the long-standing china clay train (different china train, but it did make me think of it) is also quite...

With up to four car shuttles per hour, lorry shuttles in addition to an hourly Paris and occasionally hourly Brussels there can't be a lot of spare capacity in the day time. When I've taken a late night shuttle the crew said we were a bit delayed leaving as it was single bore operation overnight...

It is often reported in fora such as these that viability is about very high track access charges through the tunnel, unreliability of onward transport in France, and lack of paths through the tunnel. Like most advertised new cross-channel services, I'm sure this will run once and disappear...

Do you have access to the data? Or do you have just object to the use of a baseline for one of the calculations in the report? Because without access to the data and methodology, you can't really comment on the soundness of the data. Similarly, a poster above stating there is noise on the data...

Defining London by its administrative boundary is entirely arbitrary and almost entirely irrelevant. These airports are London airports because they are used primarily by people going to or from 'London', the definition of which is not the administrative boundary but rather self-defined probably...

I saw the Transfesa train - along with the water train and the aluminium train - at Coquelles on Tuesday. Apparently perhaps for the last time?

The problem with your argument is that it is based on the nonsense idea that flying is a 'little pleasure and convenience' that we can simply give up with a minor cost to our overall utility. It seems like quite a sad worldview. Even leaving aside business travel for a minute, which is still...

Well then perhaps you are right. I have never felt like it, mostly because I don't fit the usual profile of a frequent flier. I never manage to build up much status with airlines because my routes change often and I'm not captive to one origin airport (this year alone I've done long haul from...

Being slightly biased, I recommend Maastricht. As you say, it is rather culturally distinct with a rather Bourgondisch way of life. It's also ideal for border crossing. By the time you will be there, there will be the new three country train operating. You can go from Liege (B) - Maastricht (NL)...

I would say an average of flying weekly over the course of a year is when the lower threshold of frequent flyer kicks in. Your point on reaching half by half is logical, but for some reason in my line of work I'm usually over half way to my usual annual total by the half way point of the year...