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The actual "why" from the people with influence who are calling for it is mainly to give a benefit that is currently enjoyed by the most affluent and economically active region of England to the rest of it in the hopes of reducing the socioeconomic disparity between regions.

At smaller American stations you can generally wait on the platform, however.

This is perhaps a perspective that paints politics as more technocratic than it actually is. Governments do not just subsidise the railway because of its actual benefits; they also subsidise it because it gets them votes. Therefore, questions of "fairness" are likely to be high in politicians'...

Fairly large step if this is accurate. Looks like a HS1-style concession could be on the cards, as well as a degree of land value capture. https://inews.co.uk/news/hs2-lite-manchester-back-table-burnham-who-pay-4679721

Not the first case of a worker being fatally struck by a train in Japan this year, sadly. According to the Japan Transport Safety Board's website in addition to this incident there was another fatality in March this year.

Really, the question should be what's stopping railways worldwide from running BEMUs with a 450km operating range, since as far as I'm aware no railway in the world currently has plans to operate BEMUs over that far a distance.

But consultation lengths have grown. I don't think we lived in a dictatorship prior to consultations reaching their current length.

I believe this is fairly normal for HSR today. I know Japan is retiring the dedicated monitoring trains for the Shinkansen.

Very well said. Discussions about whether repairs are worth doing can only be conducted once estimates of cost and time required are available.

Not that these things are unrelated to each other, of course - the quicker and cheaper something is the easier to get political support for it.

That's not a lot - with 30 trains a day you pay that back in less than ten years.

"South Central" was used in some stuff before privatisation: (Image shows 1988 Network SouthEast map dividing the NSE network into "Thames & Chiltern", "North", "Anglia", "Southwest", "Southcentral", and "Southeast" regions)

The safety culture on US freight railroads is extremely poor and practically Victorian in places. From what I've seen in discussions online every freight rail worker there has multiple tales about being pressured to ignore rules to get the job done quicker. There's absolutely no belief that the...

"Hampshire Surrey & Sussex" has a ring to it, though the "Metro" services wouldn't fit as they don't go outside Greater London.

But they would be spending their own money with the intent that the state would pay them back, and there wouldn't be much willingness to invest unless the state paying them back was a guarantee. Unless the plan is to at least partially make money from tolls.

This was the Bayside Canadian Railway in New Brunswick. The intent was to evade a ban on using foreign-flagged vessels to transport goods between two US points by using an exemption in the law for routes that transported goods partially using Canadian rail lines. However, a judge found in 2022...

I could see Broomfleet getting some development.

Of course these sort of proposals are a dime a dozen, but considering the proposers in this case are a former DfT civil servant and someone involved with HS2 and Sizewell C it seems to be worth taking somewhat seriously. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c621m9l1qr1o

London has a significantly higher rail modal share than any other UK city though, and modal share is definitely the fairer comparison.

It is worth noting here that public transport has a munch higher modal share in London compared to the other cities of the UK. So aiming for e.g. Birmingham or Manchester to have public transport modal share similar to London does not seem an unrealistic goal.