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Because the ORR are publishing P-coding stats, some TOCs have chosen not to cancel till the last moment so they are off the P-coding naughty step. Whether this is better for passengers or not, I will not give an opinion. 1714134317 It costs them more money to cancel late than cancel further...

We’ve been using a technology called ‘Airbus‘ since 1974. ’Skytrain’ was not so successful.

Because there are far, far bigger problems for the economy if ‘the oil’ runs out (or, say, quadruples in price) than can be solved with electrifying the railway.

It didnt get past the first stage of screening when the initial strategic business case was done (over two years ago). Not least because there wasn‘t any missing railway to restore.

St Albans. On the main road through the centre of the City. I find it hard to beleive it was fake unless it was being used for some promitional purposes and also had trade plates that were evidently well hidden.

Where i saw this one, there are police vehicles with ANPR going past several times an hour.

Jeez, all I was trying to do was help someone make a journey, and it turns into a whinge-fest!

It’s about 20 mins (18%) quicker, and much more if your destination is somewhere more easily accessed from St Pancras or Stratford, eg the City, Canary Wharf, and most of the north side of central London.

Isn’t the answer for those in Glasgow wanting to get to Crewe in the gaps where the via W Mids train isn’t running to catch the Euston fast train, and change into the following via W Mids train at one of Carlisle, Lancaster, Preston, Wigan or Warrington? It’s a well timed (about 18 mins) and...

Its rather later than that - several months ;)

HS1 is very much a contributoy factor. Not so much the capacity increase, but the reduced journey time to London.

Well its all relative, but TPE cancellations so far this month are 30% lower than the national average for all passenger operators, and better than (for example) Greater Anglia, c2c, SWR and London Overground.

Hmm. I did wonder. But it was definitely front and back, with no other plates on display. And driving on a main road within 200 metres of the district police station. And it wasn’t a dog grooming company van or anything, it was a tinted windows peolle mover/minibus. That’s quite a risk to take.

For the avoidance of doubt, and as has been said many times before, Conductor bar is specifically not an answer for limited clearances, although it can help in some places. However it is the answer for places you want to be maintnenance free (eg Thameslink core, Crossrail core) or where trying...

IIRC there was the increase to 4tph from 2tph for stoppers on the Chatham line corridor from Orpington, and an additional 2tph Tunbridge Wells to Charing Cross.