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I'm still trying to work out how an "All Line Rover" can be seen as attractive with the prices charged. I assume that nobody would even consider them without a railcard, so to compare railcard prices. It seems priced only to attract real enthusiasts trying to plan a rail journey carefully and...

Which has 100% of the attention of the public, especially those older ones who have the time to travel. Of course, if they haven't actually heard of Rover tickets, they will easily be able to guess where this information is displayed due to their sixth sense. ;)

Many larger hotels have lost business as their customers are the ones that now have holiday homes, which were the homes the hotel staff used to live in before they were driven out to cheaper rented accommodation requiring them to drive to work instead of walk.

I do hate it when the discussion becomes personal rather that keeping to the script, but I suppose I have to get used to that. Now back to reality. Surprisingly there is a massive proportion of the population lives in Lancashire and other parts of a route from (say) Inverness to Penzance. Such...

I'm not quite sure how my suggestion of through trains to popular holiday destinations has turned into a discussion about day trips. I would like to go to (for example) Cornwall and stay for a week, without the tedious 350 mile drive each way. As a bonus maybe, I would like a local public...

It would certainly appeal to me and persuade me from going abroad in many instances. It's quite cheap and simple (assuming non-Covid conditions) to fly abroad so that is what people do. £100 on Easyjet to somewhere in Europe or £150 (estimate from last time I looked) to Cornwall. It's an easy...

Those would be the ones intended for people on expenses I guess. ;)

It has always seemed to me that those who run the railways cannot see beyond commuting, and even today, almost all new infrastructure is based on commuting. The thought that people can use the railways for leisure seems a very long distant second place. I've just checked and the ALR costs £818...

Having done it for 22 years, I would say 'yes'. I do know I could have done the same job just as well from my home town, and probably been in a better mood had I not had to spend 45 minutes driving there (no public transport) on a clogged up M6.

Surely the clear winner would be to NOT have thousands of people making the journey into Manchester or Salford Quays. It's not as though people are going to a prestigious manufacturing site to make bespoke products, but most are going to be sat at a desk pressing buttons or talking to people on...

That's not a bad idea. Metrolink is such a dull generic name. 1621000986 You've just inspired me to have a quick listen to Nut Rocker. I used to have a C90 cassette with a 60s compilation in my first cat in the late 70s. When it finished I always expect 'If Paradise is Half as Nice by Amen...

The alternative of course is to stop the continued run down of these town centres by investing in them rather than the city centre, which is doing very well already thank you. It won't help anybody (other than Burnham) if Manchester becomes London Mk2, with people travelling from 50 miles in all...

Going south from Bolton, has never been completely straightforward. Even now, the 'journey' from platform 13/14 at Man Picc to the other platforms is far from straightforward, especially for people with a mobility problem (i.e. me). I have seen many discussions about having Euston trains...

As I live in Wigan it would be very annoying, enough so to stop me making many journeys, and to use the car instead if inconvenienced enough, which is the exact opposite of what our clever politicians want us to do. There seems an obsession about reducing journey times by those in positions of...

Why do you say Lockerbie has to be served? I can't imagine many people wanting to travel from south Lancashire to Lockerbie or vice versa. Even without this route it has a fantastic service for a village of under 5,000 population. As for commuters, in the morning all commuters will be going...

Do you know if there has been any progress on electrification between Wigan and Bolton? This seems to be another project hanging by a thread. 1619104015

Waverley47. Thank you for the useful answer. At the moment I am only thinking about the Express trains rather than commuter trains. I don't live in Bolton any more, but in Wigan for the past 27 years, so this is not a personal whinge because the service is letting me down personally. Can I ask...

I don't really like asking questions on forums, especially as an occasional user, because the question is rarely answered properly. I have now altered the title to try to avoid correct but completely unhelpful responses, though I can't do much about responses that make a 3 word completely...

After a seemingly endless upgrade to accommodate overhead cables and faster track, the line between Manchester an Preston has now had some time to establish itself. However, having looked at realtime trains and selected a few dates in summer, it seems that only 2 of the 9 Scotland bound trains...

I would have though that there would be a significant part of the existing railway line where there is no scope to add separate track. 1611345300 All these capacity issues and congestion around Manchester could be solved by turning the whole argument on it's head and asking "Why do we insist on...