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Is it possible that in the future one or more preserved railways could be compulsorily purchased. For example, say the Government decided that extra capacity was needed on the Brighton line or a new town was to be built at Horsted Keynes, could the Bluebell extension and Ardingly Branch be...

I will kick off with the following stations on the Paddington - Plymouth Line: * Devizes Parkway situated on the A360 just outside Devizes. * Somerton (also for Langport, Street & Glastonbury) * Taunton (Norton Fitzwarren) Silk Mills Parkway (P&R and WSR interchange) * Wellington *...

After a breathless sprint to Ashford we then trundled at all of seventy miles an hour to Canterbury West. It is approximately 20 minutes from Ashford to Canterbury and another thirty minutes to Margate so still an hour and a half from St Pan to Margate, which is all of about five minutes...

Apparently from 27th October FGW and SWT have some more competition. Flybe will be flying three times a day between London City airport and Exeter (Broadclyst?) Airport. Up journeys one hour twenty minutes, down journeys one hour fifteen minutes. Fares seem to be £80-110 judging by the...

The Northern City line seems to me to be under used in terms of train frequency. It occured to me that in addition to the existing services, a six trains per hour London Overground service could fairly easily be accomodated as follows: Moorgate, Stns to Finsbury Park, Stroud Green...