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There is a lot of anger over the past few days about the massive overcrowding on the Tarka Line due to the Class 175 shortage, particularly focused on the 07:22 from Barnstaple and the return 17:14 from Exeter which have both peak time commuters and a large amount of kids from North Devon going...

There's been a lot of disquiet about this locally, including a petition by the local MP and some excellent advocacy by local rail future campaigners. Hopefully means there is some additional investment in the line instead of yet another road scheme getting hundreds of millions.

How dissapointing. Worth writing to MPs / MSs about?

Absolutely baffling if it doesn't considering the high cost of fares on XC

This is a very bad omen if the 70 minute flex fare is going to be expanded. This has got better good news, with it less likely to be expanded. How do we.go about getting it scrapped on LNER. If the revenue is the same, surely better to have more customers served, particularly from a taxpayer...

If it takes a minute then it's not a proper assessment, it's a guess which you and I can do now. We need something evidence based, rather than opinion based. You want something that outlines: 1. What the capacity/performance benefits closing it / reducing stops would bring? 2. What would this...

The fact that no part of the railway is looking at whether it is worth closing Welwyn North suggests it has lost an appetite to do anything difficult politically.

Would it be possible to split/join 158s on the Norwich - Nottingham - Liverpool service at Ely, with a portion for Cambridge aswell? You'd get the much wanted Peterborough - Cambridge enhancement without having to touch the north junction. Not sure if this could be done in the station ATM.

Would you close the railway?

I've always thought there should be a relatively good scheme to get the Conwy Valley to a train every two hours. Would need you to cut back to the junior ideally interwork it with the Junction - Llandudno shuttle. Currently the first train of the day takes 56 minutes Junction - Blaenau by...

Thank you so much!

Hello, I'm on holiday in France ATM and wondered if anyone knew of an equivalent of the excellent Realtime Trains website for the French rail network please? Thought if anyone knew it would be an expert here!

Is there a list of these anywhere please?

Totally agree on this and have seen this stated before. Would seem an obvious win for GBR, the additional revenue from the extras must be pretty slim compared with being able to get another path in. Serious consideration should be taken to whether Welwyn North could go down to 1tph or even...

I suspect they weren't used as they are only newly spare, with the new trains finally freeing some up. 1744614600 Great news as additional capacity appears to be in the works! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74nq19w100o

So according to Wikipedia TfW have 3 spare 150s and there are 6 156s stored. My understanding is with three diagrams to get all as 4 car you would need 3/4 of these, plus a reshuffle if you wanted 158s for the Northumberland line, apart from the obvious point around cost would there be the space...

My inner crayonista says in an ideal world you would extend the EP branch to Cheshire Oaks using the M53 corridor, even onto the Zoo if possible. I am however aware this would probably cost bazillions

CLC is often mentioned for the North West - and would be useful (especially if you could use it to get freights out of the Castlefield corridor) but for my money a Hazel Grove - Buxton would be good as a sort of North West equivalent of Paisley Canal. Both schemes are sort of infil, but thats...

They've got slightly lower capacity. But they are brilliant

Hi All, Sorry for the slow response but thank you all for this information, it was all really useful!