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Your daughter might not benefit directly, because she can't afford to travel by train as you tell us, but she might benefit indirectly. Most passengers on a train, who have to travel, would otherwise be in a car or possibly a coach/bus on the very roads that your daughter uses to drive to...

That's hilarious - you seem to have swallowed the Hyperloop hype, hook, line and sinker. It's called Hyperloop for a reason. It's quite literally a billionaire's pipe dream (no pun intended). If it ever works at all, which is a big if, it will only be after a very, long and costly development...

Lots of words have multiple meanings. For example, the word "work" has a very specific meaning in physics but non physicists use it in many other ways. I don't think that position is actually quantized in quantum physics anyway. In the case of phrases that include the word quantum, the size...

Dear Who Cares, Have you ever considered being a little more stoical? You know, taking one for team GB. Other people have much worse to look at. Some people have a view of a power station so you can watch television. Others have a view of an oil refinery so that you can drive your car. You'll...

When the railway line next to my house was electrified when I was a boy there was some disruption. We lost a few hours sleep but the workers passed through and then it was over. No one I knew complained to the railway. They knew that at the end of the process there would be a better railway and...

At Euston they very often have big signs on the platform next to coaches F and U pointing out that they are totally unreserved. I think smaller stations may have posters on the walls.

No I didn't look it up in a dictionary (although you might have) - I knew what part of speech it was already. Me liking or not liking the fact that there was no single decision maker in the creation of the German rail system is immaterial. That wasn't how the word Germany was intended to be...

What a pathetic response to a valid point. It is entirely normal English usage to describe the persons who made decisions at different times about the railways in Germany as Germany. In fact, there's even terminology in English for it - synecdoche!

I complained, about the Nectar points system, directly to VTEC, via their website, and how inferior it was to the previous East Coast scheme. They said they were sorry, and that my points has been noted, and sent me £50 of Rail Travel Vouchers. I'm not sure they actually read what I had...

Genuine quote from the article ... "At present, if you look at a modern lightweight diesel car, fully laden, and a modern 125mph train, also fully laden, there is not actually very much difference between energy consumption." Disregarding all of the caveats surrounding how full trains are...

The main inconsistency with the arrangements, seems to me, to be the fact that a state owned non-British company is allowed to bid for a franchise whereas a state owned British company is not.

@mccoy and @Pigeon Have you seen the film "Groundhog Day"? Your points have all been made many times, over the years, by people against HS2 and each time have they have been refuted using logic and facts. The constant repetition of these tired, worn out, invalid and illogical points...

When British Rail first proposed the Thameslink expansion in the early 1990s, due to the success of the reopened Snow Hill Tunnel, it was named Thameslink 2000 precisely because it was planned to be completed by the year 2000. As the delays mounted, and it became clear that it wouldn't even...

In the last few months I've re-read L.T.C. Rolt's biographies of "George and Robert Stephenson" and "Isambard Kingdom Brunel". What struck me, while I was reading them, was how little things have changed in the intervening 180 years or so. They also faced considerable opposition in getting...

You seem to be unduly obsessed with Milton Keynes to London. I travel from London to the North West regularly and don't especially enjoy travelling on trains that are completely full. I've tried travelling at lots of different times to find one that's not very busy and the only time I have...

I personally wouldn't call it 'obscenely successful'. It's busy enough during the rush hours alright, but at other times the buses are pretty empty. Mind you, they have spent over £150 million on single bus route so I would hope it was more successful than the previous buses. And there...

I'm pretty sure that the people who visit Cambridge Science Park don't really need an easy name. Let's credit them with some intelligence. I would have thought that they will be able to associate Cambridge North with Cambridge Science Park easily enough.

I passed Springs Branch Junction last night (8th March) heading south on the mainline and it looked to me as if the wires over both tracks extended around the curve and onto the mainline. I'm not completely sure though, as we were going quite fast, it was twilight and I was on the opposite...

The seats given away for "free" were in general on the least busy trains and probably wouldn't have had a bum on them anyway. They may well have made money out of me due to my frequent trips to the buffet car. They also got what they wanted in that they got me to buy tickets on their website...

Well, it might be changing for Virgin East Coast but I haven't seen anything for West Coast. I may be wrong though. I might only travel twice a month, however, it is regular and I'm spending between £2500 and £3000 per year with them. I would say that's a reasonable spend per year to expect...