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Well a second trunk HSL. The first being LGV sud-east and lgv Nord

Could a second European north/south HSR spine from say Frankfurt down to Milan be viable? Would link Italy with Brussels, Amsterdam and most German cities via train and could provide a second route for German passengers down to the Med. Obviously a huge amount of tunnelling would be required...

I wonder where these new routes will go to? I'm guessing London to Frankfurt, Geneva and Zurich.

Yes, I believe class 309s were originally going to be used to Leeds? Would be interesting to see what would have happened if the original LM electrification used class 309s too.

Didn't this last into the 2000s? I regularly remember SWT local trains missing out Earlsfield back then.

From what Ive heard from the media he does seem surprisingly inept. I thought Theresa May was actually pretty genuine but sadly it seems she also didn't have the right skillset to be PM. We need to seriously consider whether changing a PM in the middle of the term is the right way to go rather...

Why can't they send them to Liverpool? I had a feeling you don't see the 807s out as much as your should. Exactly why I think you need an "Intercity Regional" type operator to shadow intercity routes to add competition. Or reinstate pre-Breeching secondary routes.

If you're going to do this wouldn't it make sense to lump in Northern's Windermere and Barrow services and TPEX's Manchester to Scotland trains too? But IF you did that, wouldn't it then make sense to continue the integration with freight and infrastructure too to have a fully vertically...

I once met a former BR manager a few years ago and yes, he had a LOT to say

I'm not sure of the issue of extending NLL Overground services north from Stratford to Tottenham or Walthamstow. Or maybe the DLR - which was suggested many years ago in a Modern Railways article.

How long was the Blackpool to Euston journey and what was the price compared to Virgin?

Of course it was. Mrs Wigginbotham who sits on the county council and runs the local cake sale didn't want these "Labour voting types" moving in and playing "rap music" from their boomboxes. I despair.

I’m unaware of that particular problem, whats happened there? NIMBYs I presume

They did. They were got rid of as long ago as a WW1 economy measure. One wonders how they would have fared if the LCDR had electrified their Victoria to Holborn route at the same time as the LBSCR did. To answer the OP again, I think what I would do is foster a far more aggressive culture in...

Its difficult to say, assuming the Treasury doesn't stand in the way (and that's a huge assumption) there's a lot of things I'd do but they're just train enthusiast fever dream ideas. Although at least semi-seriously, I would continue the Overground expansion in South London and build some much...

You could do London to Sheffield and get a XC Voyager from there, but I suspect your Mum wouldn't like Voyagers either as they're cramped and uncomfortable.

They are creepy aren't they. Maybe it's because of a nameless decades old voice lost to time, or maybe it's because repeating the station name in the same way twice sounds like a highly unnatural way of speaking. No one says "I'm looking for MY TOOTHBRUSH, have you seen MY TOOTHBRUSH" for example.

Thanks for all your help. I've decided that all services will run through to Victoria, calling at the fictional stop of Longhedge. That should double the journey time meaning two trains will be required. Using the draft fictional timetable I've created, both trains will pass each other at...

I think one poster explained it was only one carriage, a specific carriage where that’s more likely to happen.

The Hounslow Loop has a lot of concentrated employment around Brentford, Kew Bridge and Isleworth. Whilst Chiswick is a sleepy place the others mentioned means it deserves at least a service every 20 mins.