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Did Look North name the one hundred people who were killed in Scunthorpe? Did it name any of them? I suspect not. That is not to deny that pollution is a "bad thing", but to ascribe cause and effect in such ways is highly suspect.

This is the Scottish Labour Party trying to divert attention from the fact that a vote for them is a vote for Ed Milliband, which goes down even worse north of the border than it does down here. Happy Burns Night all.

The problem with petitions is that there is no cost attached to supporting something which might cost millions. It's too easy to ask other people to pay for something you want. If, for example, each signatory had to pay £5 towards the cost of the study, do you think 2000 people would have signed?

One quirk of Flybe's pricing on the Exeter - London route is that flying from Exeter is always cheaper than in the other direction. See http://www.flybe.com/ If you look at February / March, prices start at £14.66 from Exeter but never lower than £37.82 in the opposite direction. Clearly...

People think this because they believe that, for instance, the recent chaos at Kings Cross was caused by private operators, whereas it was primarily the fault of Network Rail. NR is effectively a state owned (i.e. nationalised) company. People also believe that the rapid growth in rail usage...

You can write what you like, but best not to mention him by name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkbqzWVHZI

It's illegal to inform one group of people in advance of others; it's "price sensitive" information. First Group shares down 2% this morning, Stagecoach up 7%.

"Scotland" is not one place; Glasgow and Edinburgh are separate destinations, and the east and west coast routes serve largely different communities, with little overlap in England and not much in Scotland. In any case the main competitors are air and road.

Stagecoach shares have dropped in the last 5 days whereas First Group's have risen. An early sign of winner's curse?

I once bought a carnet of (what turned out to be) stolen Paris Metro tickets at Gare de Nord. There was a long queue and the person behind me offered me a carnet for cash. When I used one the cops jumped out and arrested me and the person who'd sold it to me. They'd been hiding behind the...

Thank you for explaining the situation so clearly. However, it's never too early to speculate, at least on this forum.

Their recent removal of a Quiet Coach was a remarkably retrograde step. Who thought that was a good idea?

I was at the Dampfplan in Germany a couple of years ago, when a volunteer was tragically killed by an incoming train. Naturally we all accepted that we were going to be delayed, except one German male who demanded to know from our guard why this was preventing his train from leaving. There are...

train tracker may be a generic term, Train Tracker may not be, if it's the name of something. There's no problem with using a trade marked name in its correct context, e.g "I bought a Senior Railcard". Trade Marking prevents misuse of the trade marked words.

Interesting to note that MTR's UK boss is Jeremy Long, who was one of the founders of GB Railways / Anglia Railways back in the 90's. http://www.atoc.org/about-atoc/about-us/the-atoc-council-and-board/jeremy-long/

Yes, they handed back the keys after they had lost a fortune.

That's the problem, except for "government" read "taxpayers".

Not forgetting the case on the sea wall near Teignmouth several years ago where two women were killed while trying to retrieve their dogs from the tracks. Incredibly they'd walked along the narrow sea wall with a low wall separating them from the track without keeping their dogs on a lead. As...

As someone who formerly used this road (and railway line) regularly (and in no way condoning this offence) I find it remarkable that the crossing is still there. It's heavily used by both road and rail traffic and is in relatively open countryside. If anywhere deserves a bridge, this does.

That's because it isn't a good idea. No-one in their right mind would start a sleeper service unless they were promised a large subsidy, which Open Access would not get.