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In the UK the train/s must stop at the station where the split is made, and it will class as a through journey. I have no idea about Italy - what I do know however is that it is absolutely ridiculous to complicate journeys, complicate ticketing even further and potentially reduce passenger...

So you've bought two tickets then.

The impression I have is it would only be a stopgap until the new units arrive. There is an option for further Hitachi units on top of those already on order.

Agreed. I can't see them being fully DOO. From my own experience the time advantage comes from drivers opening the doors, closing of the doors has minimal time difference.

To give them some credit, the franchisees don't just randomly decide to refurbish a fleet. It's all built into the franchise agreement. Arriva are spending mega money replacing the GC fleet, when there were multiple alternatives available.

I find myself I have more space in Lumo airline seats than LNER! I agree that if you want a table then Lumo probably isn't the best choice.

It's incorrect to assume if prices were higher than the same number of passengers would still use rail and pay a higher fare. The seats are much nicer and far more comfortable. When I can, I use Lumo purely for the seats.

I am very happy about this and I thought more members here would be celebrating this occasion. This announcement marks the removal of what is in basically an open access operation. Obviously now, all of those people who would travel on this train will buy full price tickets on LNER and other...

Just a further thought - what about a journey that is partly on open access and partly on a state train?

I think that might be unhelpful for those who want the ease of turning up and being able to get any train going in the right direction. Out of interest, would you still support ticket acceptance during disruption between Open Access and state railways?

From my understanding it was hopeful that one minor ECML application was going to be decided upon, but I've not heard anything.

Has LNER or anyone with authority ever actually said "If it wasn't for Open Access then we would love to use those paths for X"?

GC are replacing the couplers on their entire fleet - I suspect they aren't doing this so they can continue running 5 car sets.

https://www.orr.gov.uk/about/who-we-work-with/industry/train-operating-companies https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/travel-information/find-a-train-company/ Thanks for agreeing with me :)

There seems to be some operators missing, at least three Open Access aren't on there