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I take your point. I just find it frustrating that the TOC websites are in general so messy, and it takes longer than necessary to buy an e-ticket. Not found one yet that 1) remembers previous/favourite journeys 2) remembers railcard 3) autofills sensible times of departure/return 4) remembers...

Wow, not bad! It has a nice clean design and entering a railcard is so much easier than nationalrail.co.uk. Also much faster than GWR which proves my point that quality of website coding makes a big difference. Avanti also seem to have laid things out in a very logical manner. LNER's website is...

Sure, but the extra time taken on top depends very much on the user interface. The national rail website is clunky but noticeably faster than the TOC sites I've tried. In fact some mobile apps e.g. LNER are faster to display a fare search than their websites. I would have thought that fares...

That website doesn't show the currently available fares, only a list of possible ones including some strange promotional ones which are rarely used. Alternatively, is there a TOC with a fast search engine. GWR's certainly isn't.

I am aware of a number of websites that offer a striped-back approach to providing train times using publically available data as an alternative to the TOC websites and nationalrail.co.uk. Is there a similar one showing train fares? I am fed up of the slowness of TOC websites, and the...

Does anyone know how the engine noise of the 769 compares to the 166 Turbos? I found a press release claiming the diesel motors were mounted on 2 layers of rubber so may be quieter in service than existing diesel-only stock.

Is the extra capacity/substations expensive, or technically difficult? I am just wondering the reason it hasn't been implemented in parallel with the introduction of the 769s. They seem the ideal stock to be used with a section-by-section introduction of electric power. Surely, small sections...

The extra fast service really does make a difference for travelling between large population centres. A good example is Reading to East Croydon. Try routing this when the 3tph isn't running and it will either send you on a very slow SWT stopper and then change at Clapham Junction, or to...

Sums up my thoughts entirely. Even the USB ports are not new, because the Turbos have them!

I guess that means there is hope of faster services once the 769 can run on electric for the 3rd rail stretches. At the moment it seems a bit strange to replace a diesel with a slower diesel. Although if they are more comfortable and quieter than the Turbos perhaps that will make up for it.

This is how the fast train looks in the new December timetable looks (right) compared to currently (left). Reading-Wokingham: 1/2 min slower Guildford-Dorking: 1 min slower Dorking-Reigate: 1/2 min slower Reigate-Redhill: 1 min slower Overall: 3 min slower Redhill-Reigate: 1/2 min slower...

I think the number of people using Dorking Deepdene as an interchange from the North Downs Line to others lines is very small. Unless you are a rail enthusiast, if you needed to do that you'd probably not bother and go by bus or car instead. It would only really work if some or all of the...

Ok, seems fair enough. Are the 3tph planned for Sundays as well? Not clear from the information so far.

Has any thought been given to coordinating the arrival/departure time of the 3rd train at Reading with onward GWR connections? e.g. Oxford, Bristol, Worcester etc. It seems for some connections, going on the current Saturday timetable, it works perfectly, but for others it doesn't. Just a few...

From the sounds of it the new 769 timings might mean a tad slower service then currently? Would be interesting to see how GWR promote "new longer trains,....but slower than before"!

The old XC only stopped at Guildford, and made Reading to Guildford in 32 mins, Guildford to Redhill in 28 mins, total 1 hour. This is only 2 minutes faster than the new fast train which also calls at Wokingham, Dorking, and Reigate. Although I guess a few improvements since 2004 might mean a...

The logic of missing out Dorking is that it is the smallest station on the new "very fast" train, and officially equal in users to North Camp and Blackwater which are skipped. But I take your point that unofficial numbers may be higher. In my experience seems to be mainly under 25s alighting...

Yes, coming from Reading the first slowdown was a little before Blackwater, and the second was almost immediately before North Camp. Does anyone know about the acceleration performance of the new 769s? With so many stations on this route, if the stopper can get back up to speed more quickly...

I was on one of the new services recently and it provides a very welcome enhancement to this route. However, I did note that, although the train kept perfectly to schedule, it did have to slow down to 20-30mph in a few places where there is no need to slow down. Perhaps there is a problem with...

Only solution is night trains! Not sure about the freight limitations but that would be a very easy commercial win for the full distance with no stops. Huge numbers go back and forth between those two cities.