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Check your spelling on the previous post - I suspect that's what takno was referring to!

True, but one of a fairly small number of stations in comparison to the Underground. Marking a station as West London Interchange on the map, when it doesn't actually have an interchange between TfL lines might just look odd!

Actually, thinking about it, on a tube map, it'll be a single blue wheelchair dot in a line of other similar dots. Unless there's a new station added on the overground, there won't be any interchanges shown other than a little double arrow symbol (and perhaps an HS2 symbol). With a deeper look...

I was including that as part of their operation. Almost everyone goes across to Dartmouth (on their ferry), and as you say, a lot continue on the round Robin. This is unlike most other lines of my experience, where you board at one station, half an hour later get to the other, have lunch, wander...

It also has the advantage that it goes TO a town that is a very big tourist attraction (with very limited parking as you mentioned). Unlike most heritage railways it is actually used as a means of (tourist) transport - the vast majority of passengers use it as a way of having a day in...

HMS Belfast's guns are aimed at London Gateway service station, so it is a very simple operation to remove it remotely, leaving the name spare for OOC station...

Dart Valley Railway PLC (The Paignton - Dartmouth Steam Railway) made a profit before tax of £580k in 2019, on a turnover of £5.6M, and paid £75k of tax on that, along with £114k of dividends, so is nicely profitable. They also had £7M of reserves at that point. That of course includes the...

I really suspect that it's the dire nature of government procurement, or the state of UK shipbuilding, not a fundamental issue with procuring ships. Cruise ships are incredibly complicated, are all short runs or unique, and almost all are delivered on time, on budget, and work straight out of...

I agree with ticketing changes as you suggest. I don't think that running a very limited rail service on a very slow and indirect route, that is already overcrowded from stations further south would be any help for people from Preston. There aren't diversionary options on much of the railway...

But they can go by train anyway - ECML or, indeed using Northern's services on the S+C

There comes a point in any loss making business where there is no point throwing good money after bad, and all the administrators can do is have a fire sale. If heritage railways are somehow protected from this, then none of them will be able to borrow in the future. I think Llangollen reached...

So North Wales passengers need to change, in order that Glasgow passengers get a direct service... I suspect there still wouldn't be anything like the number of units needed. Glasgow is 2 full length trains per hour on a very long diagram (even longer via S+C). North Wales is I believe one full...

But Avanti have ordered the right number of bi-mode 805s for North Wales services. How on earth would you put them on long Glasgow diagrams without decimating capacity on the lines they are designed for. Buying additional bi-mode trains just for diversionary purposes seems to be a collosal waste...

True. But the numbers in both cases are very small which was my point. Fully segregated long distance roads are very safe, with very small numbers of deaths for their massive numbers of users. From some of the comments on this thread there are people who think of them as being patrol zones for...

I was probably being a little disingenuous. I think most of the rail deaths are at level crossings. It may well be the case that rail passengers are safer than dual carriageway passengers, but that deaths in society in general are higher on the railway.

There were 250 deaths on the UK strategic road network in 2018. That's not going to cause any redundancies in the undertaking profession if they all closed. This compares to 1750 across the road network, and 311 on UK railways. (figures all from Google). Overall, dual carriageways are probably...

As others have said, high quality dual carriageways are far safer than any other types of roads. You may not like roads, but saying that sending long distance through a town centre is safer is blatantly inaccurate. In particular, when driving at 69mph on the Newbury bypass, you are endangering...

I was making exactly the same point as you - that closing lightly used roads is pointless and impractical - frankly so is everything else on this thread!

But roads are also used by ambulances and fire engines, so potentially make a 'profit' on a public health point of view.

Barely used roads also have a tiny environmental impact, and virtually no practical alternative, other than evacuating the hamlets that they serve.