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Only two platforms at Euston have third rail (9 and 10 from memory). At peak times the Lioness line uses other platforms and thus the overhead lines. Personally, anywhere the third rail can be removed it should be and I don't see it surviving the rebuild of Euston.

10tph has been reported in the press (so maybe take that with a pinch of salt considering everything else said!) Definitely simplest is Manchester and Birmingham via OOC/HS2 as they are furthest away.

I think people are forgetting two things here 1. Trains to Birmingham on HS2 will be twice as long as current trains 2. In order to see capacity benefits Birmingham express services will have to move to HS2. 3. Trains beyond Birmingham will need to be half length, hence the reported nonsense...

Tom Scott did a video on the Bus Replacement Rail Service

This discussion reminds me of my own pedantry. We say to people we are "on the bus" but that's only possible upstairs on an open top bus. Everyone else is "in the bus". Same goes for the announcement "passing through train" rather than "passing along the train". As you can imagine I am a barrel...

The original question was "if built in full" and yes, should that have happened the WCML, MML and ECML would all have had capacity increase. Even with ETCS the ECML still has significant bottlenecks with freight traffic. Sections of double and triple track where four tracks are needed all the...

I am not even train staff but I also shout at people to keep behind the yellow line as trains arrive. I would have used my whistle here and shouted at passengers to get back behind the yellow line. Incidentally I have a seriously loud voice! I have used my whistle to stop someone go under a...