Recent content by brad465

According to RailwayData, just shy of 19,000 passengers travelled to Kings Cross from Aberdeen in the latest year with data (a further 6,500 travelled to Euston). I'd add that as well as industry need, this is where passengers going to the Shetland Islands would travel if going there by ferry...

Another Reform UK MP no longer has the whip; James McMurdoch rescinded it following a Sunday Times' investigation alleging he took out Covid bounce back loans, to values well above the required turnover for eligibility of the businesses in question: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78n1dxl8wwo

Is that something about being drug and alcohol tested?

Perhaps the government can do this for the Sprinter fleet as well in favour of BEMUs?

Are there enough 99s to take over most of the services for those branches? If there were 100 of them I think so, but 30x isn't many.

GWR appear to be offering the 11th October according to that site, however the GWR mixing deck doesn't yet have advance tickets available earlier than that on my planned travel dates.

I have a cycle event planned in the New Forest on Saturday 20th September, so have booked to stay in Southampton the night before and plan to travel by train accordingly (changing at Westbury). However, when booking with a bike reservation, the system flags there are no bike spaces on both...

You wouldn't get all the freight through there electric without also extending electrification through the Oxford corridor.

I'm not familiar with schools in that area, but certainly in Kent Grammar schools can have pupils with long-range journeys. I once travelled from Maidstone East-Blackfriars in late 2022 one evening, and remember some noisy school girls in another part of the carriage who boarded at Maidstone. To...

There is also a burden on employers to an extent: I know of managers in my work place who've received very basic job applications for roles they've advertised, where they are almost certain the only reason for those applications, was to meet a minimum application requirement while on Jobseeker's...

The only thing shocking about this is how long it took for her to do this. She has openly attacked the Labour party more than the Tories or any other party, even while Labour were in opposition.

While not every person on PIP and other sickness benefits can be completely cured, surely the best way to reduce these bills, is to invest strongly in healthcare, both physical and mental, to treat as many disabled people as possible to the point they do not need to claim such benefits. The...

If these two were ever pursued they might as well have one long dynamic loop connecting both areas. If Cranbrook is at the centre of that proposed loop, there would only be 4.3 miles (7km) of single track between there and the proposed Honiton loop extension. Likewise with the proposed...

They are already removed from most peak time WofE services in the main peak flow; they are typically fast between Waterloo and Basingstoke (Woking is also skipped in the peak).

The advisors behind this at the very least need dismissing, including Morgan McSweeney. As I alluded to above, I've wondered if the latter has compromising material on Starmer that is keeping him heading up the No. 10 operation? Cummings very clearly had dirt on Johnson over Partygate, which...