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Are there any specific UK rail services which could reasonably be said to be profitable and if so do the profits to an extent offset the extent of losses incurred elsewhere on the network?

How optimal is the level of service for suburban passengers in relation to the level of respective demand for travel to/from the Moorgate branch, Kings Cross and the Thameslink Core route?

Not posting this as a criticism but rather as a query. Have there been any similar precedents at any London major terminals to the 30-minute service between Kings Cross and Potters Bar which is the sole offering from/to Kings Cross on Christmas Eve. I know that there will have been complete...

In the large listing of all conceivable delay causes for attribution purposes is there a contingency which acknowledges the possibility of a delay being incurred because of overstretched controllers (however it may be couched in the wording)? I witnessed an apparent such instance today in a...

Does this or something similar still exist and is it accessible online?

Morecambe-Lancaster with occasional journeys to Leeds "enjoys" a horrible quasi-40 minute frequency. The journey time from Morecambe to Lancaster is 10 minutes. I wonder if a very resource inefficient but easier to remember mainly hourly pattern would actually generate more custom perhaps...

What were examples of once quite common phrases used by station announcers which are no longer heard now? Announcers at Glasgow and Edinburgh used to be able to announce things like "a Griddle Car is conveyed on this train". There were occasional references to "the carriage sidings" when...

Three questions relating to services such as York-Leeds stoppers which at York are advertised as York-Burley Park and at Leeds are advertised as Leeds-Poppleton the logic being to dissuade end to end pax from unwittingly boarding a service with a significantly longer journey time than faster...

From the National Rail website. " Industrial action is taking place on Saturday 5 August. Due to serious safety concerns, there will be NO trains to or from Brighton and the station will be closed. There will also be no trains along the Southern coastal routes due to the amended timetable that...

Anyone suggest the best option for early warning notification of disruption anywhere on UK rail network? Once a known incident has begun to cause significant disruption is there a means of receiving notification on a mobile phone as soon as information about the disruption reaches the public...

Which station is the furthest away from its London terminal or terminals with the highest number of trains per hour in a typical hour to/from London? I've probably not phrased that as well as I should have. What I'm meaning is the furthest distant station from London with the highest frequency...

Anyone else been irritated by situations where one source of information e.g. a station departure monitor continues to show a journey as being "Delayed" long after it has in fact been "Cancelled" and shown as such on rail information internet sites? Is there never going to be a way that...

I think journeys between London Euston and Northampton operated by West Midlands Trains might be an example of what I'm thinking of as surely if Northampton is in the Midlands at all it is in the South Midlands. I'm looking for booked passenger services so excludes ECS or Special journeys.

What is the furthest distance that can currently be travelled non-stop on a normal timetabled service on what used to be BR (Southern Region)? Was this surpassed at a previous point in history?

The original ethos of Thameslink placed great store upon the critical importance of trains presenting themselves with a very high percentage of right time running as they entered the core section. Unfortunately the reality has become more a case of regular haphazardness of running for lengthy...

Are there any reasonably large and busy stations left (let's say a minimum of 4 regularly utilised platforms) which have no physical barriers or prohibitions to accessing any of the platforms nor any discouragement from freely accessing any public part of any platform? Many reasons have been...

Available at: https://files.scotrail.co.uk/Dec%2022%20LTP%20Unit%20Diagrams%20-%2015-09-22.pdf

Are Vivarail about to go into Administration?

From reading various books about BR days there was an expectation that managers including the most senior of them would make time to turn up unannounced at the front line in order to see first hand how things were, to speak to front line staff and ask questions and to roll up their sleeves and...

Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister, announced the measure as she set out plans to deal with the "humanitarian emergency" caused by soaring energy bills. https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/scotrail-fares-to-be-frozen-until-at-least-march-2023-confirms-nicola-sturgeon-3833427