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I'm glad I'm not the only mad one! I can't remember where I saw info about transport modes in London, but the core message was that basically no-one drives on journeys into central London, but there is still huge levels of car use on journeys between outer suburbs. Looking at a rail map, the...

Most of London is quite well served with orbital routes. In my mind the biggest gap is in the Northern quadrant, between the Metropolitan line and the eastern end of the Piccadilly line. There are basically no orbital connections between the ~ 8 lines that head north out of the city, and the...

Also, people are much more likely to respond to consultations if they personally are being negatively impacted. On this basis 60% seems very low.

Please, no more pure diesels, we have too many as it is!

Sounds like another way they are going with an aviation model. I agree that it seems like a very sensible way to do it - means that food service can be instantly turned from a loss maker to a profit centre

I was going to say that I thought that Langstone - Bembridge was a concept only, and never actually ran, but you are correct - 1885 to 1888 using the Carrier - a former Forth train ferry made redundant by the bridge. It appears that it was not very successful, if nothing else both harbours are...

I think that a brand new bi-mode fleet for Portsmouth - Cardiff, and perhaps also Cardiff - Taunton would make a lot of sense. Specifically designed for the route, so comfortable for long distance, but with decent sized doors to allow it to be decent for the many stops too. Once Bristol is...

Presumably they were sensible and adjusted charges to write the cost off over the remaining guaranteed period of the lease with SWT, rather than any speculative future period with SWR. If they took a business risk not to do that then that's their problem, frankly!

Ditching the Tardis, as, like a taxi, it refuses to head south of the river, New Cross Gate (almost went for New Cross, but realised I could gain a useful triple word score there)

In the old days the two ferries connected anyway. Rather than short individual routes to Dunoon, Rothesay and Cumbrae like there are now, there were a mass of long, multi stop interconnected routes by the three railway companies (Caledonian, GSWR and North British from the North Bank of the...

Of course the steamers were run by the railways, and there certainly were direct steamers between the two ports (generally en-route to somewhere else) so perhaps that is also part of the reason

As we are not using Tudor Court rules, I believe the Ford worker's ferry is in play, so since it is so convenient Belvedere

For my suggestion, I was seeing an increase in council tax for future owners as effectively a tax on existing owners - i.e. their house price increases because of the new railway, but that increase is reduced slightly because the new owners will need to pay more council tax in the future. The...

As it is the 6th Thursday of the month, and so the Circle line is forming a Mobius loop it seems churlish not to take advantage of the skip-stopping this entails and proceed directly to Stepney Green

I could see some logic in doing this via council tax, for new owners of property - i.e. the existing owner keeps the property grandfathered at the same council tax band, but for the next owner the band is increased by one. That could be a fairly reasonable way of getting some of the value for...

In many respects it already is, apart from Aylesbury, all of its services are traditionally Paddington routes, and the new Oxford route is also providing relief to Paddington

I worry that new players may be ghosting this thread, wanting to join in, but worried that their cry of 'St James's Park' would be met with derision, so I'm going to explain this move carefully. The last move was a clever one, putting us in spoon (Spoon, as we all know, being a corruption of...

Batteries have surely got to be the way to achieve this. On a different thread @Bald Rick suggested that it would only be a few years before battery powered trains could comfortably bridge 50 mile gaps in electrification, and that if the generator unit on the battery trial GWR 802 that is...

Taking the shortest possible route in the circumstances to avoid crossing the diagonal (via Jubilee line, h&c, Pic, Central and DLR) to HERON QUAYS

Southampton Docks? I'm pretty sure they were developed by LSWR, so count as railway land, but were then sold on