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Very smart indeed. The accessible area looks like the same as on the Waterloo & City, makes sense. Bit of a weird mix of the loved and unloved though. The shiny new scrolling screen is below a 'Ventilator' sign with missing letters...

The data that would be really useful for me (and I can't seem to find it), what is the carbon footprint of my return journey to Manchester on a Class 150, which is going an indirect route via Stockport. I can then compare that to a direct journey in my fairly recent petrol car, and make an...

I'd argue there may be a fourth scenario. You used to take trains a lot (maybe back in the BR days), especially for short journeys, say Stockport to Piccadilly. You know that that it's cheaper to buy a ticket to London the earlier you're able to. But the notion that a ticket for a local journey...

Gosh, this is peak railway industry. "Our revenues are still down 30% compared to 4 years ago. With every decision we make from now, should there be a relentless focus on the customer experience, to get them back?" "Nah."

No risk assessments, but have the money for putting in useless "Platform Closed" screens that get ignored. Says a lot about the people and processes responsible.

Do (did) the South Western Railway 707s have TTS for announcements? 95% of the announcements sounded fine, but then there'd be some odd emphasis on syllables here and there.

Multiple times I've seen drivers on the Central line with full over-ear headphones on.

I saw a poster for that campaign recently, celebrating the new S-stock trains as part of the modernisation plan. Weren't they introduced almost 15 years ago?

Not sure if it's still there now, but in the past there was an official railway sign in Greenbank station pointing towards Hartford with words along the lines of "1 mile, for trains to Liverpool and Birmingham". Would seem a bit harsh for the ticket not to be valid, if the railway is telling you...

It’ll be nice if someone told the staff on the Elizabeth line platforms at Paddington, telling people to leave the platforms even though a through service to Heathrow was leaving a minute later

Managed to get to Paddington at about 9am to continue my journey eastwards on the core. Obviously with everything else going on, the train thought it’d be great fun to have a door fault. The incident response engineer couldn’t get it to close, as if there was something physical blocking the...

Interesting how TfL is now showing 'Severe Delays' for west of Paddington. It was showing Part Suspension earlier, and there's still nothing running, so I wonder why they changed it. Hands-up my mistake, it's just westbound services from the core that's suspended

92 stock may be in better condition mechanically, but cosmetically they’re a disgrace. Much worse than Bakerloo trains.

My friend was really surprised to hear I have a lot of issues with it. Then she got stuck between Whitechapel and Stratford for 20 minutes :D Are there any right-time statistics available for peak time specifically?

As a thought exercise, to protect yourself from this, can't you just: 1) sign up to Trainline with a made-up email. I just tried it and there wasn't any verification required, no phone or address required either. 2) buy a prepaid Mastercard with cash (such as Vanilla), and use this for...

How many is that? Which platforms are allocated? I assume there’s a separate plan for peak and off peak? Does the plan take into account average passenger loading?

I appreciate the double-reverse would have taken (even more) time, but Traksy showed 5 empty platforms, including the ones the EL used to terminate at, so I do think there was space.

I get what you mean, but instead of easily going to an accessible Hackney cab that’s waiting in a line (of which most of the time there will be one), they now have to ring up and wait for an adapted one to be sent out. It shouldn’t be underestimated how much even a small task to you and I...

So something that has got me angry about this. The wheelchair accessible Hackney’s are no longer able to park outside the station. They have to be over the road, and there’s no official pedestrian crossing. How does a wheelchair user get across to the taxis now? It can probably be done at a...

Currently on 9U69 travelling eastbound. Got into Paddington tunnel, but not the platform. There’s a train stuck in the platform that will not move at all. After 30 mins of being stuck, we’re now travelling back to Ealing Broadway, just where I started almost an hour ago. Apparently there’s...