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Public transport has historically and currently commanded much more of a priority for huge public expenditure there rather than in UK. Are there any London mainline terminals which could confidently advertise booked platforms and adhere to them 90+% of the time?

So what alternative solution would you propose?

I wonder whether there are still any regulars who work in London for much of the week and catch one of the sleepers on Thursday or Friday evening to spend the weekend at the family home in Scotland? When Kirsty Wark was a presenter on BBC Newsnight she used to get whizzed to Euston to catch the...

Grim.

Would it definitely fit in loop?

I wonder where the unit and any pax on board have now ended up as the unit is no longer at Abington?

Time for the FOC's MD to get an early bath perhaps.

Network Rail directly manages New Street and East Midlands Railway for Derby.

Worth reporting it as a complaint to the relevant TOC and station operators if you've not already done so and asking them why these occurences happened and what they will do to prevent this in future. Would be interested if you would then post any responses to your complaint.

Are there still many examples of stations where staff are alerted by a bell to the fact that a train is approaching? Specific examples and reasons for retention of the feature are welcome.

When I look at the volume of private cars shoe-horned overnight into the streets and house drives around where I stay compared to 20 years ago, it is no surprise that bus service provision in many areas is on a downward trajectory. Several households have 3 or even 4 cars compared to, typically...

The prevalence at one time of family dwellings which promoted themselves using a board in a front window as Bed and Breakfast establishments. Not exclusively a feature of holiday resorts by any means.

And possibly reflecting on more lucrative opportunities to invest their finance than running buses for limited margins.

You're right. I'd forgotten how relatively recently Labour were voted back in.

The main ethos of the 1986 Transport Act which the Conservatives introduced to deregulate the bus industry (for good or ill) was to set bus operators apart from social obligations and instead to operate commercially with the local authorities funding anything which the latter felt to be an unmet...

A good analysis. Also only a minority of operators, at least for the foreseeable future, will be involved in franchised operations.

Not a case of "stropping off" but one of determining which course of action will result in the better financial outcome for their business. Numerous examples exist demonstrating that not being "flavour of the month" has not been a factor in the award of tendered services or franchised...

The UK bus industry has been deregulated for the last 40 years so I don't follow how this could be "made compulsory" for commercial non-tendered services any more than Sainsbury's could be compelled to have a cap of £1 on all tins of soup.

Genuine question - what are the consequences for the droves of passengers travelling from/to Cambridge and Gatwick Airport or Brighton cited earlier within this thread when the Cambridge-Brighton and v.v. service is regularly and hastily binned at the first hint of disruption anywhere on its...

Police stations, often well staffed, in fairly small towns. This thought was inspired by being surprised to see a functioning and prominent police station whilst visiting Aviemore earlier today - albeit its staffing hours were fairly restricted. And on an entirely different topic the Nintendo...