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Wouldn't work as the hourly Wolverhampton services now continue to Glasgow or Edinburgh. You'd need to extend one of the other two Birmingham services. Somewhat ironically, one of the reasons the timetable was changed like that was to free up a few Voyagers, one of which would have worked the...

That's only made possible by massacring the Chiltern timetable.

I imagine he worked it out with his car.

Nope, taking the Oxley chord that allows trains to go from Stafford to the Telford line directly.

Heathrow is wholly within Greater London (LB of Hillingdon). Zones 1-6 do extend past the boundaries of Greater London (most obviously on the eastern Central Line). Caterham and Tattenham Corner are both in Surrey, but their branches are within zone 6. However Shepperton, another Surrey branch...

Although some would say that the time released would be better used by adding calls at Motherwell instead.

Depends how delayed the opening is, of course. :P

Not sure about May, but the Catford Loop goes over to FCC/their successors in December.(Realistically this means no change, as it'll still be Kentish Town to Sevenoaks at the same frequency with the same stock. For the time being at least.)

FGW own a few of their HST vehicles. Although if they lose the franchise then they will probably just sell or lease them to the incumbent, or just sell them to a ROSCO. Not really a problematic situation.

You can only get to 21-24 from the International concourse, which is on a lower level (and in need of a bit of a spruce up :P). 20 is okay because you can get to it from the main concourse as it's back-to-back with 19.

Unless it goes via Hatfield on the A1(M). (Although I don't think road tunnels cause nearly as much of a change in pressure as rail.)

1. Not used by any regular services (a couple of railtours still use it though). 2. Because it's slap bang in the middle of the busiest passenger railway in the country, and you'd need to close the lot before you could safely knock it down. The other option would be to dismantle it, but that...

Of course, by the time the flyover opened, it was already known that St Pancras was going to end up being the main Eurostar terminal.

Other than the fact they're way too long, of course.

Is it worth adding yet, being as it's going to change every other week as more enter service?

Indeed. Also since then the Blackpool to York service has gone up from two-hourly to hourly, so it would be even more awkward to timetable it like that. Also would I be right in saying that both Blackpool to Scarborough and Liverpool to Scarborough would be operated by ATN Transpennine 158s...

But why is that a route that XC ever need? XC never avoid Birmingham. As I've said, stop thinking of it as an end-to-end service when really it's two.

Because XC don't (and never have) run via Uttoxeter. It's not one of their routes. Also if you sent it that way you'd lose a Birmingham to Manchester service, which is what it effectively was. That service was basically a Derby to Birmingham service and a Birmingham to Manchester service...

Are the services in question frequently overcrowded? If not, and the passengers can happily fit into four carriages, then I see no reason why the other unit needs to be open at all.

That weekend, the Piccadilly/District line is closed between Hammersmith and Ealing Common, and there is no Piccadilly service north of Rayners Lane (only Met going to Uxbridge).