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GOBLIN isn't in 3rd rail territory; it's north of the Thames and has some sections with OHLE electrification already. The Ashford-Ore section of the Marshlink line is not electrified Hurdt Green-Uckfield is not electrified Doing both of those would release all of the Class 171 trains (6x...

If Leeds to York & Selby is due by December 2018 I suppose that it isn't that big a wait if Hull is done for the May 2020 timetable change.

I hate to rain on everyone's parade again but let's be honest here: the simultaneous reopening of Bere Alston to Okehampton and upgrading the entire Exeter to Plymouth via Okehampton route to a mainline diversionary standard is absolutely not going to happen. It's a colossal waste of money when...

So, the reason that we stick doggedly to TOC franchising is because private operators are innovative and quickly adapt to the market requirements, but they'd need explicit permission from the secretary of state for transport to make a change to the seating configuration of one of their trains or...

An uninformed guess: maybe this is 110mph on the slow lines, or maybe EMUs are limited to 110mph because that's all the OHLE is rated for?

I'd have thought that FGW's pacers were more likely to be replaced by the 165/166 units displaced by GWML & Thames Valley electrification than they are by sprinters. Are there enough 165/166s that some 15x units would be freed up from FGW to go to Northern? Manchester (Victoria & Guide Bridge)...

More likely St Pancras - Ebbsfleet shuttles, and even then I think it'd need for TfL/SE to offer a plus HS1 option on z1-3 (or more) travelcards to see a big shift in usage.

Maybe they'll be hauling some surplus 319s around non-electrified routes? ;)

If plans come to fruition there may be upwards of 12tph each way (4 Stansted Express, 4 Chingford, 4 Cheshunt/Broxbourne). I don't think that 4-tracking Stratford to Coppermill Junction would be worthwhile myself, and by the looks of it NR don't either.

Although Lea Bridge station isn't explicitly mentioned there's a lot of interesting possibilities for WAML/GEML local services discussed in the Network Rail Improving Connectivity document. The proposals explicitly include the grade separation of Coppermill Junction and the reopening of the Hall...

I meant in the sense that someone could do the following: Tap in as they enter underground network (say, Jubilee line at Bond Street) Alight at Southwark Tap out at the Southwark to Waterloo East single gateline Board a SouthEastern service Either alight at a SE station without a gateline and...

Maybe the lack of a SouthEastern gateline was causing a disproportionate number of Oyster PAYG refunds to be issued to travellers through that route?

I'd guess that TfL didn't want an ungated route to the Jubilee line at Southwark, but it wasn't practical to secure all of the routes through to Waterloo East. Having the double gateline would've been more acceptable than a single gateline followed by standalone Oyster validators.

Is there a Google spreadsheet akin to the excellent S7 & S8 tracker anywhere?

Neither had I until I looked at that PDF!

They'll be extended to 4-cars once electrification is complete, and there's already a grade separated route from the Gospel Oak - Barking line to platforms 7 & 8 at Barking station. http://carto.metro.free.fr/cartes/metro-tram-london/index.php?gpslat=51.539522&gpslon=0.080649&zoom=4 If memory...

If the NLL is to get extra services it makes far more sense for them to be Stratford to ClaphamJcn/Richmond; the section via Highbury & Islington is extremely congested. The NLL-GOBLIN interchange is cross platform in the Eastbound direction. I'm really not sure what purpose would be served by...

The only possibility that I can think of is that it's applied the 34% railcard discount to the evening peak fare, since the quoted peak fare rates for railcard holders are the same as the standard public rates, but the gold card discount can be applied to anytime fares after 0930. I was trying...

Any service via the Tottenham North curve wouldn't be able to call at Gospel Oak, and I'm not sure that any passengers who wanted to get somewhere other than West Hampstead would be particularly pleased at losing their interchange to other NLL services! It's not like West Hampstead Overground is...

OK, let me try to clear this up since it's only started to make sense in the last page or so but we're still dwelling on the same points. The legal requirement to provide accessible toilets is definitely there. In general if toilets are being provided then at least one must be accessible; you...