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Why not send the 700s to Southern, much more suitable if a crush loaded train is the issue. Along with the right side of the Thames for 3 bridges.

You do make an interesting point, in the morning peak it looks likes similar numbers that are waiting for the Kings Cross trains to the Sevenoaks trains? I have noticed at WGC a number of people are travelling to stations in the core (I am one of them). But I don’t know if any are picking the...

It is a bit of a hangover from the failure of Thameslink to deliver what was promised. The Kings Cross - Cambridge (slow) was supposed to run through the core - it never happened and terminates at Kings Cross. But the platform useage / timetable wasn't the best with frequent blocking of...

I can see why. Last year they were talking about re-introducing it on the HST services but needed to recruit. But no ToC will subsidise it. It doesn’t seem to wash its face financially. When you think back to the 1980s it was a surprise that the 442s were built with buffets. One surprising...

I understand they are trying to bring it back, but the joys of the 385s is you can get between sets with 1 trolley, the 170s you had no gangway so if you were in the wrong half tough. The first class offer back then was tea / coffee off the trolley. I recall in the past the trolley was in a set...

I remember BR put trolleys on lots of trains in the late 1980s. I remember seeing them appear on the Cleethorpes - Birmingham service. Most of the stations along the route had no form of catering. But the journey times the passengers were on board was also relatively short, so passengers would...

ECML South of Stevenage is dreadful, I wonder what my veiw will be once they have enabled signal in all the tunnels.

Was Sunak elected? I thought he was the only candidate willing to stand so we can rightly say he wasn't actually elected by anyone (including his own party) - Which could easily happen for the SNP I guess.

I see your point about connection between the branches, as if you did stopper to stopper in the current timetable you are talking a 32 minute connection (as only the slickest people could do it in 2 minutes the current timetable offers - off peak). It is a pity that the overtaking isn’t used...

Surely they will be asked to pay for such upgrades as well, in the same way that developers of housing estates are asked to contribute to infrastructure improvements. If they are paying I doubt we will see push back on the infrastructure projects.

But when you look at the rail traffic flows, going South, Even in the peak the 12 car trains from Bedford have should be fine as they fill up as they get closer to London. So passengers leaving at Wixams will be replaced by passengers joining further South to get into London. I have used...

Looks like most if it goes via the loop during the day, and doesn’t seem to make much difference in journey time compared to goig via Digswell. I do recall that one of the reasons that the peak services from Welwyn North ran Non-Stop into London was because it cleared the 2 track section...

Looking at my observations of the services, to me it looks like it this route should really return to 8tph. Some of them are fairly cosy now. But not sure if Great Northern have enough drivers to increase the frequency. I don’t think all the Gordon Hill slow trains are back in the timetable yet...

The only time I saw it in use was in Scotland on a Inverness to the far north. It was a 156 and stil BR in the 1990s. The post vans met the train a various stations. The post vans I think were actually minibuses and took passengers as well. Not sure when that ended. I have feeling it never...

Most hours you have 4x Thameslink 4x Great Northern 5x LNER 1x Open access (Sometimes 2) 14 services. Pre Covid this then became 4x Thameslink 8x Great Northern 6x LNER 18 Trains At the moment the Great Nothern Peak offering is normally 5, so maximum 15.

Regulation and a plan b. They may need to hold late running trains making them even later to keep others on time. ie why let a train out of York that stops at Darlington, Durham, Newcastle, Morpeth and Alnmouth ahead of one that stops at Darlington, Newcastle and Berwick-upon-Tweed. Don’t...

Not sure if this is going off topic, but I do see this everyday. Slight delay and it is behind the Moorgate. Had they held the Moorgate would have caused more chaos as it only has an 8 minute turnaround at Moorgate? Whatever they do with the ECML timetable it needs to be resilient.The digswell...

I hope they review this and remove the stop, hopefully they can see it is killing their performance. Holding the Moorgate doesn’t really help as it soon cascades delays. They did as you say normally manage to get the train on the fast lines before the Alexandra Palace stop was added to keep both...

I guess with the timescales we are talking about before this all kicks off we could have a recast MML timetable anyway. The 810s will be fully introduced by then, traffic flows change. Another round of speculation of a London - Leicester all stops service etc.

When you look at the proposed ECML re-cast and how difficult it going to make some “local” journeys as a result I don’t think dft will care. Unless there is a large demand travelling between Leicester (and further north) and Wellingborough, Kettering, Corby and Bedford. Unless these flows are...