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I couldn't find anything much here on yellow warning panels and how they are doing. Are there any views on how it's all worked out, in terms of safety, aesthetics, etc? As a passenger I couldn't help noticing the eye-catching TransPennine Express trains which seemed to make the most of the...

Partly inspired by the "what is inter city" and by a recent journey, my question is what significance, if any, does the Express label have these days? For example I see the ScotRail Express label is applied to seemingly any old service between Glasgow and Edinburgh that for example stop at most...

Yes it seems the IC brand was to suit a particular context. Geographically - or in common sense terms - Liverpool to Hull or Newcastle is inter-city even if latterly in BR days it was not categorised as such. The interesting thing is not so much the past but what, if anything, a future...

There could be a whole thread on that!

As far as I can recall I only ever knew it as having the Metropolitan colour, but the 'hollow' look, or possibly a dashed effect on some maps.

OK, so what about freight trains displacing trucks?

Yes, good point. So, need a bit of a technical fix then. If there's a will there's a way. For Ireland it would be about connectivity to Britain and ultimately the continent - no small matter. The other crossing options - rail bridge or tunnel - would face the same issue.

I've been reading too many speculative and sleeper threads but bear with me. Would there be any market for some sort of a train ferry between Stranraer and Larne? If so you could run a sleeper train on to it? So you could have London to Belfast, also day trains Manchester to Dublin, Glasgow to...

Arguably the East London Line was a bit of an outlier, for some years with only one connection to the rest of the Underground, and tangential, wasn't it the only line that didn't go into central London? It makes perfect sense to me that it became part of a bigger suburban / tangential / orbital...

Isn't the road (A148) bypassing Holt town centre an old railway trackbed, just near the Holt terminus of the North Norfolk Railway.

Sounds awful. One of the great things about the sleeper is just pitching up and strolling through a calm, relaxed station and then out into the cool night air (halfway to Camden) - the opposite of a stressful, herded, brashly lit, enclosed airport pen.