Search results

The Met line in the 80s off peak terminated at Baker Street for the most part (I think only the Watfords continued through to Aldgate off peak) But what if NSE took over the line in the mid to late 80s? Would we have seen electrification to Aylesbury, would A60/62 stocks have lasted to the...

I was going to post this in the history and nostalgia section, but as I’m talking about the tube I think it’s better here The hype surrounding the Elizabeth line in the late 2010s and early 2020s was big, I also recall the Jubilee line extension being highly anticipated, while in the 60s there...

Recently watched a Jago Hazard video about a 70s proposal to have Ring Rail which is a forerunner to what we have with the Overground today A lot of of was bat sh*t such as taxi tracks, but most of the proposals were sound, and it’s pretty much what we have today only the eastern leg of the...

Not suggesting I endorse this idea (I don’t think it’s a good idea to it have London Bridge trains from the Bexleyheath line) because I got it from another forum, so I thought I’d run it by people here Greenwich Line: Cannon Street 6tph - 2tph to Gravesend - 2tph to the Bexleyheath line to...

I once read years ago that the one of many plans for privatisation was that each line and not route would be privately ran (or words to that effect) so basically if the North Kent line was its own separate company, was this the case or is this misremembering something? If it’s true how would...

Like the question asks how would the SE network have looked had the two aforementioned branches remained open. Would they be part of the London Overground or absorbed into a tube line? Or perhaps the Greenwich Park branch would have her connected to the Woolwich line eventually if possible

Marylebone was lightly used in the 1980s, pre NSE, the plan was to close it and make into a coach station. Aylesbury was to be reconnected to the Tube network again with the Metropolitan line planned to restore services there, while trains from Banbury and High Wycombe would have been diverted...

Thinking about how some on here think Thameslink should be under TfL even though Thameslink serves other cities besides London such as Cambridge and Brighton, perhaps a better alternative would be a TfSEE which could work closely with TfL, I know St.Albans, Bedford, Luton, Peterborough and...

Following this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/will-south-london%E2%80%99s-covid-cuts-be-reversed.296079/ It got me thinking about how the cuts made to services in December 2022 have not been reversed yet, despite the fact that along the Greenwich, Woolwich and some of the...

London Crosslink was a branded service which from Norwich to via the GEML, the North London line and the SWML to Basingstoke, it was operated by Anglia Railways from May 2000 to September 2002 but was besieged with problems from the outset. I wonder if this service might’ve worked better under...

A couple of videos I watched recently in regards to the Tonbridge to Redhill & Marshlink lines Could there be room for a direct London (Victoria) to Rye service using diesel or battery operated trains, I know HS1 was projected to be extended from Ashford to Hastings but this has been shelved.

The Metropolitan avoided being grouped or absorbed into the Underground in 1923, but by 1933 it was finally absorbed into the tube network. What would have happened had the Metropolitan line not become part of the tube system? Would it have eventually been made a part of British Railways? The...

Could and should the Crosscountry network be expanded, have services say from the Kent Coast to Liverpool or the return of the Brighton to Scotland services? Even services to London again.

It’s only 30 mins faster to Kings Cross by HS1 than it is to reach Victoria which takes 2 hours currently from Margate, the faster route on the HS1 is via Canterbury rather than via Faversham. Is there a way to speed up HS1?

The modern GatEx really isn’t anything more than a commuter express train between London & Brighton that happens to serve an airport. It skips Clapham & Croydon when I feel they should be served by it, for onward connections to other parts of South London. Should the GatEx be restructured to...

We have the Oxford tube, which even after though you have fast Paddington-Oxford GWR trains exists alongside it and passenger loadings are always busy, it’s like a ordinary trunk bus route/suburban semi fast rail line Is there a case for a similar type of coach service for Cambridge? I know...

A few years back there were ambitions for HS1 to be extended to Rye and Hastings (Eastbourne in the peaks), it would have connected Rye to London in less than an hour. Things have gone silent on this front, this may have been shelved due to Covid. But will this ever happen?

I’d have thought these would have been consistent stops, I now domestic hs1 trains don’t skip Ashford but I did notice that some trains do miss out Ebbsfleet and/or Stratford.

Always puzzled me this, what was the rational behind this? Is it a load spreading tactic or just because there is more demand at those stations than at Catford which does have Catford Bridge next to it.

I know a extension to Tring was on the list of possible extensions to the new line. In light of capacity constraints at Euston, would it be feasible to send the current Milton Keynes semi fasts through the Liz line core?