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I definitely agree, they have massive windows and the seats are usually aligned with the windows, which seems unusual these days. They are also reasonably quiet and have good air conditioning. The two thirds doors means dwell times are good which helps punctuality. The Class 158 are noisy and...

Well the motorsport industry does have quite a bit of money. It would very ironic if the motorsport industry were to spend billions on building a very fast rail line though.

I am sure there are loads of reasons why this could never happen, but a daytime London Euston to Fort William train would be pretty cool to have. I suspect in summer at least it would be reasonably well used due to the West Highland Line being very famous for its scenery. I am guessing such a...

That route did work very well last time it was tried. I think very long journey times over three hours between London and Shrewsbury were the issue.

A lot of subreddits are very picture and / or meme heavy. While this can be good in some circumstances, it does mean actual factual content can be limited. The uktrains subreddit is one of the subreddits that tends to be quite picture heavy whereas this forum was much much better for actual...

You must be lucky as I find it very unusual for an Avanti service to arrive on time at Euston. Typically a delay of between 3 and 20 minutes I find is very likely on Avanti‘s services and I would say of all the Avanti services I have taken in the last year, I estimate less than 20% actually...

On the north ECML almost all the good scenery is on the east side, so if you are sitting on the western side you will to some extent miss out on the good views. On the WCML, the views on both sides are good.

From what I gather most of his MAGA base really do not like the US getting involved in foreign conflicts, so I think Trump will lose support as a result of this.

Of the ones not in the poll, I do really like HS1. It is the fastest mainline in the UK by some margin and it does have quite good scenery, particularly of the River Medway and if you like fairly bleak industrial looking landscapes, the east London marshes. It does also arrive into what I would...

West Coast, has the most interesting scenery and most comfortable trains, as the Class 390, 805, 810 and most of the class 350’s are very comfortable. Scenery is very impressive north of Lancaster, particularly if you like looking at hills. South of Lancaster it is less interesting, but still...

Chiltern, as they serve very wealthy parts of the London commuter belt, will have a very high proportion of office based commuters so will have been particularly impacted by the shift to home working. I wonder why C2C figures are so low as I would have thought they have would have a lower...

As Edinburgh is 400 miles from London, this gives a speed of 4,800 mph, or more than three times faster than Concorde!

Reading to Swindon I think is about 40 miles, so my guess is that an upgrade from 125 to 140 mph would save a minute after acceleration is taken into account. However west of Didcot almost all the passenger trains are 140 mph capable and between Reading and Didcot the slower trains are on the...

Excluding HS1, there are currently no sections of track in the UK with a line speed greater than 125mph. Therefore, if issues of cost were ignored, which stretch of track would most benefit from having its line speed raised to 140mph. By section of track I mean a stretch of track of between 20...

Christmas Eve is still technically a working day, although many workers do take it off as Annual Leave. Boxing Day is a public holiday, so it would make more sense to run trains on Christmas Eve than Boxing Day.

At the moment the Bakerloo Line has severe delays due to train cancellations. For much of this week it has had delays due to train cancellations. Now the train cancellations may have nothing to do with the age of the 1972 stock, but I suspect it does. So I do wonder how much longer it is before...

For the Birmingham, I have heard unsuitable geology and soils was part of the reason.

I saw this video and was amazing he was allowed in the avionics bay. I assume there was someone off camera escorting him.

Early this afternoon, there was an approx. 1 second power cut at my office in Soho, Central London. I suspect this could be related to the power supply issues on the tube and Elizabeth Line this afternoon.

I think there are many voters who absolutely despise Reform and will vote for almost any party except Reform. During the local elections these voters may have voted for the party they most liked, whether that was the Liberal Democrats, Greens, etc. Come the general election I would expect these...