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Any one know why the UK decided to electrify its rail network? Regards Mailman

I think you will find that the vast majority of office workers have no say in whether they can change to different start times thanks to the ingrained Victorian era style of management many people have to suffer under (ie. if your manager cannot see you, he cannot manage you). What you say...

Are you sure? We have covered this off already on this forum and UK rail subsidies paid by the Government are significantly higher than European subsidies. But anyway...has anyone got any ideas on how prices can be brought down because it seems like TOC's and the Government are taking the...

So what is Europe doing right that keeps their rail fares significantly cheaper than ours...or is the UK rail commuter subsidising European rail commuters?!?! If the Government is already paying out billions of pounds in subsidies to TOC's why not just go the whole hog and take everything...

On average my season ticket ha gone up between £250 and £300 a year and Im sure that pretty much everyone else who commutes will also have seen massive price increases over the same period of time. Now the thing is every year FCC tells us every December/January that the money is going to be...

So in the last four years my season ticket has gone up by over £1000, so does anyone know where all that extra money is going in improvements to my line? To be fair, Network Rail has started extended all the platforms between Peterborough and London so 12 carriage trains can stop...

Whats the point of a time table if trains are going to leave BEFORE their published departure time? And what if a train leaves 6 minutes early? Should passengers then get to stations 10 minutes before the published departure times? Box of pandora's fluffy bits being opened here :) Mailman

Yet the 1930's WERE hotter than today, even though the amount of the universes most toxic gass (co2) was less than today...and that pattern repeats itself as you look back through the ages. The Precautionary Principle is as bankrupt as the so called climate scientists are who keep throwing it...

Its highly relevant whether its Mann made or not SIMPLY because BS laws like the climate change act were passed based SOLELY on alarmism around Mann Made Global Warming (tm). We are p1ssing hundreds of billions of pounds away on responding to a non-issue and in fact may be making things worse...

BUT it is wood isnt it? I mean lets not kid ourselves here...what the freen lunitics are talking about is cutting trees down for firewood and nothing more. To me thats just craziness of the highest order! It seems our green friends have no issues with killing off local bird life (windmills)...

Biomass is trees isnt it? Mailman

I have no doubt that energy use has dropped. However, the energy companies counter act this by raising their prices so in effect, even though we are using less we eventually still end up paying more! But the original question is a very good one...where is all this extra energy going to come...

Anyone know what the actual details were that they were going to strike over? Mailman

So is this the folly of going electric instead of sticking to diesel? (of course assuming there were very real reasons for moving away from diesel in the first place?). Mailman

Its still a risk free environment for the TOC's. BUT thats neither here nor there at the end of the day...the question remains how better future upgrades to the infrastructure can best be carried out without the long suffering customers having to pick up the costs. Mailman

So in effect TOC's are essentially operating in a risk free environment, where loosing money means getting paid billions in subsidies by the Government. That further means that customers are having to pay twice for the upgrade, firstly through general taxation and then secondly through increased...

You could argue this point but you would have one hell of a time trying to convince anyone who actually uses the trains to get to work of its merit. Its the kind of argument you would expect from the empty heads in Westminster who dont have to pay for anything out of their own pockets. So why...

Sounds like this is going to be funded by fare increases*. To a mere pleb like me it would make more sense that the train companies pay for the upgradse that will benefit them the most, and most certainly help them make more billions in profit. So, thoughts people? Should the upgrade be...

There is a ruddy great wall outside the entrance as you walk in to the main hallway that looks perfect for a large outdoor display. Im somewhat disappoint, yet not entirely surprised, that the powers that be never thought of having an outdoor display. Mailman

Heh! :D So...does anyone know when all the work in Kings Cross is scheduled to be completed? The station is starting to look good but will only get better once the full power of the sun can get in to the entire length of the building etc. Regards Mailman