Recent content by PhilipW

'Thank You' everyone. I anticipated it would be fine but thought it worth checking.

The Off Peak return from London to Oxford is £36-20 whether traveling from Paddington or from Marylebone. My question is "Is it therefore OK to travel by one route outbound and by the other route inbound ? Whether one buys the ticket on the GWR website, on the Chiltern website or at the...

Is the plan to re-instate Coleford Junction to Cowley Bridge as standard double track operation rather than two single lines operations as I understand it is at the moment ?

Just to add a little to my previous post. On reflection, I think that the through train to Euston started at Workington rather than Whitehaven. That would make more sense. Looking back it seems amazing that so many smallish towns like Workington, Whitehaven, Millom, Barrow, Ulverston and Grange...

Are there any maps of what is proposed so that those of us not familiar withy the area can understand the changes better ?

Barrow originally had 4 through platforms all accessed via the subway. Platform 4 was closed years and years ago though the buildings still stood for ages. Platform 3 was converted into a bay platform for northbound trains around the 70s/80s, I cannot be specific. While it was still a through...

A pity they did not keep Platform 3 as a through platform.

I am surprised that anyone wishing to travel from Salisbury to either Southampton or Portsmouth going via Basingstoke will be charged a higher fare than going by bus through Romsey. In the circumstances that seems like an entirely reasonable alternative route.

Is passive provision being made during the build for future electrification ?

So are there 3 lines through Dunbar ? The video seems to show three. What is the middle line used for ? Non-stop London bound trains, or is it bi-directional ?

If the London bound train was held for 25 mins at Chard, that sounds as if the Exeter bound train had not even left Yeovil Junction yet. Therefore, for a short period of time, no trains must have running on the single line section. From a non railwayman's point of view, that does indeed seem...

Weekends no problem. Weekdays (and this may seem surprising considering the number of spaces), yes there can be a problem. I'm a leisure traveller and have to pay for the parking myself so would not dream of paying £15.70, yet there are enough business travellers and season tickets regulars to...

That's fine. I realise that most freight was routed via Lincoln. I was not aware that no freight at all was routed via the ECML, I thought some still was, hence my question.

Thanks for the map, appreciated. I don't know if any freight still come down the ECML on the Up Slow from Grantham direction. If they did and wanted to go to Felixstowe, I take it that they will still have to cross both the Up Fast and the Down Fast somewhere north of Peterborough in order to...

If anyone has a diagram of the new layout that has been approved, it would be appreciated.