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According to East Midlands Trains' description of its first class offering, there is a quiet carriage. Really? Even on a 4 car 222? If so, where? I don't recall there being one previously. I find it slightly bizarre that, a few months after disposing of the standard class quiet carriage, EMT...

What anyone would expect to see when a serious rail incident occurs. Not rolling footage of the scene, but simply an acknowledgement that the incident has occurred, a brief summary of the facts, and a telephone number that people with concerns can contact. This was successfully managed in a mere...

You have said this already (post #94) and no, it wouldn't. There has been quite comprehensive coverage of heavy rail derailments in the US in the past. The BBC has a habit of fixating on "significant" news stories for an entire day (or more) which people "want" to hear about (repeatedly) and...

While I certainly do not consider the BBC to be politically biased in its reporting, it has a problem with making statements from which unjustified inferences can easily be made, as also occurred in its coverage of the High Court "Brexit case", as discussed here...

By comparison, the VTWC seat selector, which is also more visually appealing, works perfectly except for doubled-up Voyagers which split en route.

It's been the most read story on the BBC News website ever since news broke about loss of life, so it is hardly of interest only to Londoners.

Of course! How could I forget. BBC Radio London. The nation's favourite source of news media. I don't wish to sidetrack this thread, which should focus on the incident itself, but I don't believe that taking more than six hours to acknowledge the first tram accident resulting in fatalities...

The homepage is only visible to (and accessible by) UK visitors. It needn't account for worldwide visitors. There is a separate website for international visitors. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- This is the first rail incident involving loss of life in about a decade, is it not...

A brief acknowledgement of the incident would at least be appreciated, rather than a montage of photographs about the US election.

There's been zero coverage of this on the BBC News Channel despite it having broadcast the same reports on the US election every hour since about 8am. As David Dimbleby once said (on a satirical program, perhaps), "welcome to ten hours of nothing, followed by five minutes of something, followed...

The Sainsbury's at Euston stocks eccles cakes, which surprised me.

It is remarkable that ATOC manages to get consent from the DfT, which must also consult Transport Focus before making its decision, in such a short timeframe.

Whereas on VTWC the problem is getting a breakfast with mushrooms... I would hope that three alcoholic drinks is enough for any passenger on a single journey (possibly four or five if travelling the entire distance from London to Scotland). You won't have any trouble getting three alcoholic...

Both M&S department stores on Oxford Street charge standard UK prices on produce in their food halls, and it is therefore unsurprising that the Moorgate branch, which is also a department store (although it is easy to forget this given the food hall is huge relative to the rest of the store)...

What a joke. There isn't even a dividing door.

I would expect at least one of the three screens in a declassified first class compartment to permanently mention (throughout a particular journey) that the compartment is declassified. The screens can clearly be individually coded so this should not be a problem. I would also expect at least...

Do the "new" Gatwick Express trains have 2+1 first class seating, like their predecessors?

She was moaning too much, presumably? :wink:

Apologies if this question has already been asked, but if the Class 379s are to be replaced, where will they be going?

If the first class compartments on the 8 car trains are the same size as those on the 12 car trains, that leaves around half the fleet having just over 6.5 standard class carriages on a route where the majority of the incumbent trains, which have a greater density of seats, operate in 12 car...