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Are there any timetable reductions as a result of this, or will the difference be made up simply by running fewer double sets? Sounds like the corrosion happened 15 minutes after leaving the factory!

Sorry there’s one extra line in the article that gets cut out, which led me to think it’s LNER-only but you actually you might be right:

Story in the Telegraph today, not yet available online but it has made the front page (amongst the lettuce and the balloon): Big news seems to be: GBR will still go ahead Single-leg pricing being rolled out across the network? Commitment to Project Oval and possible ending of CCST?

Regardless of whether someone might, or might not, want a car. Building car-free housing in highly accessible areas means those who don't need a car have a place to live, freeing up other housing for those that do. A parking space for every flat would increase both construction costs and house...

An interesting trend I noticed in the past decade is the way Halls of Residence had to evolve quite rapidly. Big buildings with 20 catered students to a floor gutted and replaced with self-catered flats of 4-5. The rapid increase in living standards, too. Students generally expect high-quality...

Sorry my post was badly worded. I do have a basic understanding of how it works, my point is that it’s fundamentally a bad (or at least, unfair) thing.

One thing that confuses me is how trusts work. Can't work out how someone inheriting <£1 million will get hit by a tax bill, but the Duke of Westminster can inherit billions without paying anywhere the same rate of tax. While I agree that too many layers can be inefficient and blur the lines of...

@HSTEd has covered this quite well, but the title of the thread is about ending managed decline. Trying to reduce childbirth rates (and presumably other forms of population growth, like immigration) will very much bring about managed decline. We can't afford to do it. Not building enough to...

This is true, the purpose (in my mind) of local plans is to provide an opportunity for councils to develop their own plans on how to deliver mandatory housing targets. It gives NIMBYs the chance have a hissy fit once every 5 years, but will remove much of the hassle that comes with regular...

Agree! I'd probably say it's part of point 3, but anything we can do to reduce energy consumption (while increasing domestic energy production) will help. I definitely think there needs to be a degree of coordination (at national, regional and local-levels) for this. Councils should be...

1) Build, build, build. We need post-war levels of construction to deal with our chronic housing shortage. We pay (as a country) too much on rent and mortgages. 2) Investment in public sector and ending austerity-era politics - We cannot have a functioning society if the infrastructure holding...

It's quite frustrating that ITSO-on-mobile (specifically looking at you, Apple) does not have any widespread support. I'd prefer the ease/speed of tapping my phone against an ITSO reader vs the QR code scanner, which seems to have worse reliability than the magnetic tickets.

This is much better than it could have been, I’m sure HMT aren’t too happy. It is still against a backdrop of rising poverty and poorer services in many parts of the country.

RailBoard to me is the closest thing to the NRE app with almost the same functionality.

Whispers Anyone fancy a re-run of the 769 and run these as bi-mode for the Waterloo-Exeter line?

Or the Eurostar platforms, could the hearse draw up inside the station?

Operation Unicorn is a 'plan within a plan' for London Bridge. London Bridge covers all matters, Unicorn specifically relates to the Queen being transferred to Holyroodhouse, the Royal Mile procession and St Gile's Cathedral, and the Royal Train to London. My assumption here is this is not a...

No International at Stratford International either!

Me and me Mum and me Dad and me Gran went to Waterloo, not many people enjoying buckets of vindaloo (or trains to Paris, for that matter).

There is an entrance near Broad Street which is a direct Elizabeth Line entrance.