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Surely bedwyn to pewsey can be upgraded to 125mph as its relatively straight?

How much time would be saved say if you skipped reading completely and just ran direct London - Taunton - Exeter - Newton Abbot - Par - Truro - St Erth - Penzance, also could their be more speed improvements around the Taunton to Exeter and Plymouth to Penzance area, as well as resigns long and...

The 10:20 Penzance to Paddington is timed as 5 hours 7 mins on RTT, what could be done to improve journey times between Penzance and London Paddington. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:P75271/2023-09-14/detailed

Can 700s do 110mph?

So do I, I’m quite fond of them. The only reason why they get so much slack is because they replaced HSTs.

IETs are arguably the best new intercity train we have gotten since the IC225

I’m talking about from avanti, and via the Trent valley, but much like the Glasgow trains where they run non stop till Warrington

I don’t know if this counts as a hot take, but there should be a direct Euston - Edinburgh service on the WCML

Very controversial, but Brighton to Bedford and Peterborough to Horsham should be classed as intercity, they are mainly fast services anyways, so why not transfer them to intercity

Question, why are they skipping Leicester?

Class 805/807 on test

The northern section of the east coast or west coast mainline

A bit controversial but wiring the S&C line, as well as Preston - Carlisle via Carnforth.

Electrifying Norwich - Cambridge - Ely - Peterborough

A flying Scotsman has been found to be in the game files, and DTG are planning a special announcement for the 22nd

With the upgrading of the SWML, there would be the current service at a higher frequency and a newer service that called at Basingstoke, Salisbury and Exeter that would be much faster than the current service and aim to provide more capacity to the Exeter area

Uprgrading the South Western Mainline into 25KV OHLE between Waterloo and Weymouth/Exeter , it’s a route that should be considered a trunk intercity route

I would convert all the third rail lines to OHLE

Stadler’s are as bad as 700s for me, same passenger experience. When it comes to seating, the best types of seats currently are the unrefurbed 390, Lumo 803 and class 91 mk4s

Most likely, I’m assuming hitachi have probably caught wind of the serious suspension issues on the IET