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How do you stimulate passenger growth without providing a better service. It's easy to say there is no public demand when there's no service. Anyway even if "only" 2500 travel a year so what? The trains are publicly funded so havemt people a right to expect a public service? It's not just about...

When will these "superior" new trains be as fast as the the hst were over 30 years ago. I've got the old timetables that show how fast the journey times were then. London to Swindon in 42 minutes, now it's at least on hour. Parkway to London in 63 minutes. When will the new trains be faster...

Years ago on summer Saturday's from Torbay and on Friday nights and Saturdays to Torbay there were at leat 40 extra cross country trains. All with 12 coaches as a minimum. Such was the demand that relief train ran to support the Saturday extras. These trains ran full all summer. Where did these...

They can drag them via the standard diversionary route via Lincoln. This would have happened before all the relief drivers were sacked and relief locomotives were cut up. I was talking to a chap the following Saturday and his train was stranded at Grantham. They were told that a relief deisel...

I was on the 12.25 from Newcastle the KC and we were terminated at York. Thankfully I'd just finished my curry(curry Thursday) in first class when the announcement was made. This is the third time in five months that chaos has ensued after overhead damage. Of course, these days, there aren't...

I travel first class for comfort and service. A major reason for me travelling first class is because second class seats are so small nowadays. I am 6ft 4 ins and I would find it extremely uncomfortable to travel second class for any distance. I either travel first class by East Coast or XC...

I presume the HST that lost traction at Oakhampton was a 253. Surely a locomotive of that age would have sanders. Or were they removed? I'm not sure that sanders would have held the train back but they'd certainty help restore adhesion.

This government will always be soft on the companies that own the franchises because these companies bankroll the Tories. If you dig deep into the finances of this government you will see who really runs this country. It's not altruism that makes big business contribute to the Tory party. They...

Wow four stations opening all year. Gosh it's great to see how our railways are expanding. I remember when the Kenilworth reopening campaign started over 40 years ago. Finally it may happen. Haven't network rail been building Ilkeston station for around three years now? When NR are on the job...

Many of the stations that are listed as opened since franchising was introduced ( our railways aren't privatised they are still owned by the tax payer) were actually commissioned for opening under BR. For example it was agreed that Mansfield Woodhouse station would open well before franchising...

I presume the RPO is someone who was once called a guard? I always laugh when I see the farcical RPO badge emblazoned on the guards jacket. I feel sorry for them having to put up with such rubbish. Call a spade a spade. An RPO is a guard. There wasn't anything wrong with calling them that...

The metro is good but passenger numbers are not increasing I believe the all time high for usage was more than 20 years ago. I must admit that this surprised me. At best, passenger growth is stagnant on the metro. Nexus spent £5 million rebuilding Gateshead stadium station this year. How...

I absolutely agree. Network rail seem to have no intention of completing this tram project. Has anyone seen Network rails attempt to build the new platform at Doncaster? I have been monitoring this since it started and their progress is lamentable. I have been watching at least four...

According to Modern Railways mag this summer XC were not rostering their full compliment of HST and at least three were idle every single day. Of course they can make more money by running overcrowded four coach dmu on 700 mile journeys and they can lease out their HST units and also make more...

Well you don't have to worry about it on cross country voyagers. A few times recently I've had the misfortune to find myself on one and the trains have been so overcrowded that people had to stand in the lavatory vestibule. So no lavatories available for long journeys. You don't have worry...

The service from Carlsie to Hexham has got worse from day one of arriva taking over. Many 156 turns are no pacer. I had the misfortune to travel on the 11.20 cattle train from hexham to newcastle on Wednesday. A shockingly overcrowded pacer made the journey pure hell. Well done arriva on...

Apparantly they are as the English bankroll them.

Cumbria County Council have little interest in supporting public transport. They have decimated rural bus services by withdrawing public subsidy for socially necessary services. Many areas are now completely isolated. Only a few weeks ago they continued their appalling and savage cuts by...

What a pity HT weren't so accommodating for the recent football play off match at Wembly between Hull and Sheffield Wednesday. It seems that they absolutely refused to run a late train Back after the the match (5pm kick off) so fans could get home on the train. They would have filled the train...

The North Lknclonshire is a work in progress. It's impossible to model everything accurately as these lines don't exist anymore. And the program itself places massive limitation. I agree that there are signals randomly and innacuratly placed. Above all, this is a video game and not real life...