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Regarding a comment that "the toilets are likely to be working as designed i.e. lock out of use when full - the alternative would be extremely unpleasant!”: Surely that is a design flaw? Yes, toilet tanks should be fitted and of course should normally take all the waste. But if there is some...

BBC today claims that - at least in Scotland - more people are taking flights out-and-back on the same day, just for leisure purposes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce84zd68242o The woman quoted claims that she offsets the carbon emissions from her family’s frequent flying. But surely...

Am committed to travelling to London tomorrow. Checked trains a day or two ago and all seemed OK. But journey planners are reporting all trains on my line cancelled. Now stating "Due to emergency engineering work in the Clandon area, limited train services will operate between London Waterloo...

BBC concludes truly low-carbon flights are a long way off … and the reality may be higher fares. Good news for rail? Quoted from concluding section : Full article see this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c245e726r79o

Planning a simple trip in April on Sunday 21st (Horsley to Streatham, should be do-able changing once at Clapham Jct) But, National Rail journey planner gives this message "This journey is not a permitted route and may require multiple tickets. Please re-plan your journey”. WTF ?? There...

This is a bit of a rant, but some may like it perhaps. Let's think about ideal rail transport in the UK, at least for heavily used routes in and near cities: What are the desirable characteristics? Future services need to be green (therefore, electric wherever affordable); and sufficiently...