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Knowing Germany, there will likely be court proceedings now… I find it hard to see how on lines with an hourly base frequency, giving away 25-40% of paths away to a competitor with presumably separate ticketing will really improve provide overall consumer benefits. Yes, you will have a certain...

They and their competitors will, through user charges. Airports aren’t funded differently. It might be that the station operator doesn’t believe they can, but it is a bit self-defeating. If they don’t expand the station enough, not enough passengers will be able to travel. In any case, that...

As I wrote before: If the underground station is cheaper, go for it. :lol:

That was indeed my point. But it should not be forgotten that Berlin Hbf - opened 2006 - was planned in the early 1990s. It is not much use criticizing what was decided 30 years ago based on the world at it is now. Also no use building something which might only work 30-40 years later, as I said...

If everything you do is just run NPR-related services through such a station, and if - logically then - there is only a single station for Manchester at Piccadilly, the only advantage of a through station is a minor and in the end irrelevant time saving. In particular, there is no advantage at...

Even without ATO, you can turn a train around in 4 minutes if you exchange the driver (who, on a high frequency railway, could simply "step back"). So almost no time lost. All approaches would be new built anyway, so you could avoid the max 15 oder 20 or 25 mph on approach which hampers many...

I don't think anyone could justify the massive expenditure for 400 m underground platforms only for that. Yes, but overground terminus-style 400m platforms as originally planned are enough for this.

It really depends what you want. Neither HS2 nor NPR need a through station, and there is no reason to build a terminal underground. What Manchester presumably wants is for the HS2/NPR projects to pay for an underground through station which will really be used for other things. I can imagine an...

The Slovak timetable draft is available: https://idsvychod.sk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/KCP_ramcovy-navrh_2026-2027.zip Again, like this year, EC Kosice - Vienna are proposed. Let’s see if they happen. Also several Leo Express paths, probably even less „secure“. The rjx Bratislava - Zurich...

My personal preference in cases like this one is always the same: never disconnect an important service from the main hub, unless you can provide a comparable alternative, which Belfiore isn’t. If capacity in the S.M.N approaches dictates that through trains need separate through tracks, then...

You could try and do that. The resulting operation shambles would negate each and every cost saving you could expect. I agree with you that what you propose can be done. On a purpose built new or completely rebuilt network. You would need separate LD tracks everywhere that is at least a bit...

There would have been nothing inherently wrong with just keeping the terminus and improving access. Time loss would have been negligible and easily compensated elsewhere. Probably much to NCT‘s surprise :D , I am not a through station freak (same thing BTW for Florence - through roads for...

I don’t know how it was in Germany, but Aldi‘s Austrian operation - Hofer - for a long time refused to use scanners at the checkout because they reckoned their extremely efficient operators were faster at typing in prices (which they knew by heart) than if they had to scan each item (it helped...

As expected, they still occasionally run in service.

As I said, I disagree. With the planned Warsaw - Poznan HSL and the general growth of the polish market, good connections between LD trains will further increase in relevance. Two termini very close to each other, but not linked, strikes me as an extremely expensive and inefficient way to...

My point was not that Berlin needs through trains (although the Hamburg - Berlin - Prague line does appear very useful). It was that it needs a central mainline station, not several LD ones with the S-Bahn in between, as the original poster argued. 1783320974 I don’t dispute that through...

I must respectfully, but strongly disagree. Of course, what you say is true for London and Paris, if alone because you would never find a site for a station big enough without demolishing half the city centre. But mainly because the cities and thus demand there is so large that there would...

Very common in Austria too, as - as in Switzerland, I believe - everywhere is bi-directionally signaled ("wrong-line" working as a term does not exist anymore). If a stopper gets overtaken, if possible the overtaking train will use the "non-scheduled" track, so that at stations en-route, no...

The timetable tells me that most ICE trains do actually stop in Duisburg. Not comparable to Northampton of course, since Duisburg is not on a loop.

Like in most areas of life, ideology should be left at the door of rail policy. I don’t believe in „terminus bad, through station good“ or vice versa as an absolute rule. It depends on topography, route geography, planned timetable and much, much more. I am not German and don’t pay my taxes...