Recent content by A0wen

If you go back far enough IIRC it was split across Garston, Hatfield, Hertford and Harlow garages in London Country days. If you split it you lose Hertford - Watford connectivity and points from Harlow - Watford their connection to Heathrow Airport, though with the Elizabeth Line now in...

And most likely will be bussed into and out of the site. People need to be a bit realistic here - the park is likely to run two or three shifts a day depending on its opening hours, for those either on early or late turns, the train is unlikely to be a viable option. A better comparison would be...

Bit in bold - would need extra units and crews. At present one unit can do the Kettering - Corby service every 30 mins.

Bit in bold - which would totally destroy the journey times between Wellingborough, Kettering or Corby and Leicester. Either way as has been pointed out many, many times before the purpose of EWR is not to provide links from places on the Midland Mainline to places on EWR, not least because...

Slow would not be the word. Glacial would be more accurate. A National Express coach would be quicker.

However, if you live on the WCML - which has Watford, Hemel Hemsptead, Milton Keynes and Northampton on it - there are direct trains to Birmingham with better journey times than Gatwick and Luton. Stansted is easier to drive to than Gatwick if you live north of London. Whereas Gateick is only...

The problem with Gatwick is it's an utter PITA to get to if you live north of London - bringing in more flights to Stanstead or Birmingham would be better if Universal is the ultimate destination, not least because a direct coach could transfer people there in 90 mins (from either).

Exactly that. The A421 is dual carriageway from Jnc 13 of the M1 to Black Cat Roundabout on the A1. All that will be needed are links from the A421 - there is no practical need for visitors to Universal to head into Bedford, any more than vistors to Alton Towers go into Stoke or Hanley, Drayton...

Luton's issue is its runway is too short for any of the 'heavy' jets - it's 7000ft, whereas Stanstead, Gatwick, Heathrow and Birmingham have 10,000ft - and there's no easy way to extend it by 3,000ft. Also there is spare capacity at Stanstead, Gatwick and Birmingham so no justification for...

2500 is peanuts - it's less than either Network Rail or Santander have in their Central Milton Keynes offices. Large swathes of rural France don't have rail connections or have solely rail replacement buses, so you've consciously limited your scope for visits. That said, I fail to understand...

Volks Electric Railway runs 4 tph both ways - that's got to be a contender ?

There used to be a direct bus link from Stoke station to Alton Towers, Thorpe Park is less than 2 miles from Chertsey station, Legoland's under 3 miles from either Windsor station and last time I checked Euro Disney had a station. 1713031666 Well, if you compare WDW Orlando with Universal...

I think you're *massively* overestimating the numbers who will travel to Universal Bedford (if it happens) by rail. You need only to look at Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Chessington, Legoland and even Euro Disney to see the demand to arrive by rail isn't huge.

Doubt it, unless you can do Rugby - Leicester in 10 mins. Current Euston - Rugby Avanti is ~1h 25m, fastest EMR Leicester - St P 1h 36m.

I'll nibble - presumably through the madcap idea that ERTA / BRTA are busy peddling of reinstating the Northampton - Market Harboro' line...... Ignoring the fact that the latest developments on the NW side of Northampton make it almost impossible to achieve without huge disruption.