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Trespassers on the line should accept the consequences. Keep the trains running at full speed and have Network Rail keep a specialised clean up train on standby to pick up the pieces and jet wash the remains.

Belvedere and Erith have six tph with a gap pattern of 10-14-6-10-14-6. The challenge with achieving an even 10 minute interval is the need to coordinate with the Thameslink services. You can’t have 6tph for some stations and 8tph for other stations on the same line and everyone get an even...

Lets go the whole hog: All standard class travel to be free. Huge savings to be made by eliminating ticket retailing, gatelines, revenue protection, delay attribution, fare setting etc. Has the additional benefit of putting TheTrainLine out of business. Funded by increase in tax revenues...

Temporarily they have half that, ticket acceptance is in place via HS1, but trains aren’t stopping at Higham.

All property built on ex-railway land should be forfeit d and returned to railway use.

Station car parks should be replaced by goods yards and sidings

Higham has less than 500 passengers per day. I don’t think a 4tph service is justified.

A 20% increase in journey time sounds a lot, but expressed as 12 minutes longer for off-peak journeys it doesn’t seem too bad, particularly when you consider that during the peak (when most people travel) there are still fast options.

You can rightly criticise Thameslink for the shambolic performance since the timetable change. This is well and truly deserved. Nobody is defending that, other than correctly pointing out it will resolve itself in time. However your constant and frankly tedious gripes that Medway are hard done...

The 07.26 from Rochester, arriving London Bridge 08.07, 41 mins later seems quite convenient. It continues to Cannon Street, or an easy change to a Charing Cross service. The 07.52 gets there at 08.32, so only 40 minutes. Doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. Stop saying it isn’t an option. It is...

I get the point. Off peak you can change at Gravesend and pick up the replacement semi-fast service via Sidcup if you want to be there quickest. During the peak, which is when most commuters travel, there are still fast trains from Medway. My post was in response to the hyperbole that Medway...

12 trains an hour heading into London during the morning peak, with journey times from Rochester of 43 minutes to London Bridge, 40 mins to Victoria, 31 mins to Stratford and 37 mins to St Pancras. Interchange points at Gravesend, Dartford, Woolwich, Greenwich to create endless journey...

I’ve been on several London Buses where we have stopped at a regular stop, the driver has turned the engine off and played a recorded announcement : “The driver has been instructed to stop and wait at this stop in order to regulate the service” Normally it has only been a two or three minute wait.

How much of that is down to the current service provision? Most peak trains are standing room only from Sidcup onwards in the morning peak, and that includes the small number of services that start at Sidcup. Passengers left behind on the platform is common at Lee and Hither Green, particularly...

Me too. Although they weren’t very fast and were often held at the platform at Lewisham with the doors locked waiting for the junction to clear. It will be interesting to see how passenger numbers change with the reconfiguration of services. There are many catchment areas where there is a...

As much to do with the decline of heavy industry and the rise of the service sector as the effect of legislation.

Quite. If you wanted to smuggle a bomb into the country, just drive it over on a ferry. If you want to blow up the tunnel, then load a van or lorry and put it on Le Shuttle. I’m not clear what X-Rays of luggage on Eurostar is attempting to prevent.

The trick is to make it voluntary but then make it so useful that nobody would not want to have one. A universal card that can be used as The ID key to being able to vote, prove your national insurance to a new employer, residency status when renting a property, driving licence, tax, library...

Living in London, if there was a threat of a nuclear war, I would be seriously considering a train to somewhere less populated. Sleeper to Fort William for example.

I hope WW3 is still some way in the distance. In the event of a forecast nuclear strike on the UK, are train services likely to be cancelled in advance, and will ticket acceptance be in place with other operators?