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Using the GWML as an example and leaving aside any capacity issues, increasing the frequency of trains between Bristol and Didcot via Bath to 4tph is very nice for the residents of and visitors to Bristol, Bath, Chippenham, Swindon and Didcot but does absolutely nothing for those of Corsham...

That’s not the issue though - it’s why in some cases numbers were reused almost immediately whereas in others they apparently couldn’t be until 7 years had elapsed.

Interesting, perhaps, but hardly surprising. The jobs are in Edinburgh, and the line then passes through land crying out for post-de-industrialisation redevelopment. Once you’re out of that, any proposal for significant development close to the line until you get out to Gala would not only be...

Of course you can have a jolly good day out for less - just as someone from Brighton can have a jolly good day out in Chichester for a lot less than the price of a Southern Day Save Ticket or someone staying in Ashford can have three day trips for a lot less than the Kent Rover. This brings a...

At the cost of losing all flexibility.

Suspect the reason for the bus turning circle having been put there may well be the cemetery and crematorium though, as the route up to it is a very short "stub" from the much busier Mount Road.

Although I suspect you're right, usage figures alone do not tell the entire story. Those 30,000 entrances and exits may be far more economically significant to the area and to the people making them than 300,000 at an urban station that is "convenient" to all of those 300,000 but within a...

The stopping service up Filton Bank used to be a Weston - Parkway service. There were plenty of protests when this was withdrawn in favour of Westons going up the Severn Beach Line and a Filton shuttle (one of the arguments being that Parkway couldn't cope with the 2nd Gloucester service and...

Sheffield - Hexham is over £70 single- OK it’s hardly a massive flow, but a rover undercutting a single shows it can’t be that much of a rip-off.

Depending on development, Long Ashton could be a candidate.

On that note - a shout out for Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level of course - non-stop through the High Level would make headlines!)

Ouch! It’s bad enough approaching bus pass age myself and have occasionally had a seat on a bus offered to me (very embarrassing - but nice in general to see that it still happens!)

Cullompton and Wellington to come Worle Ashley Down Filton Abbey Wood Bristol Parkway (yes, I know it’s been over 50 years!) Yate, Charfield under construction Cam & Dursley Ashchurch Worcs Parkway (Bromsgrove brought back from a shadow existence) Any future sites are pure speculation- but...

The main line that has regained a lot (and is getting more) is that from Exeter to Birmingham - about 10 so far and 3 more on the way, with scope for a few more long-term.

Quite apart from cost and capacity issues, the main line will not always reflect contemporary local traffic flows.

Mix it with a bit of cold water first!

Under the old numbering, the “back entrance” (from Calton Road) landed you right by 1 - the numbering was then clockwise from there (albeit with a lot of gaps at the low end) until you got to 19 which was at the other end of 1. In theory, at least, 1 was the main London platform (certainly until...

Even for railcard holders it undercuts some single fares from Leeds. OK - not many!

The difference here is that people do have the means of escape (from fire, for example) - just not a legitimate one or one that takes them where the.want to go. Agreed though that a “crush-bar” exit should be provided as a matter of urgency everywhere it can be - which would probably just leave...

Sounds even more like a “service” run to fulfil an obligation which failed to specify the actual usefulness of that service.