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Alternatively, given how tricky it was in places to thread the Elizabeth Line, build Crossrail 2 (CR2) and be able to interchange between Thameslink, Elizabeth Line and CR2 at one one of three stations (Thameslink/CR2 at Euston Station Pancras, Thameslink/Elizabeth Line at Farringdon and...

The thing is, that on the mainlines (GWR and SWR lines) there's no extra services whether they are through services or terminating at Heathrow. Whilst it would mean that either T4 or T5 isn't served on the through service, is it even possible to serve both on a single service anyway?

The most likely would be one or two a day in each direction for an early/late service (similar to what Guildford gets)

Thing is, the Southern Approach to Heathrow would be far, far more useful than such a rope way. For example in a post HS2 world Woking would be about +1 hour from any HS2 station than Euston by changing at Old Oak Common. For example Birmingham in about 1:50 (with a circa 20 minute change at...

Given a day it's made up of 24 * 60 then 180 * 60 is the same as 7.5 days of people time if it only takes 1 minute to do the required work. OK, not all the flights will be full or even necessary all non EU passport holders, but there's a fair chance that's still about 3 days of people time per...

XC services running to Salisbury (assuming that there was capacity to get them to Basingstoke but not to Winchester or Southampton). Although that would require XC to have more trains.

I wouldn't be surprised if GBR keeps some "TOC" branding, if for no other reason that it helps passengers with where they are traveling. Even SWR's there different colours are useful in that regard, even though they are run by the same company - certainly not foolproof, but certainty helpful...

Looking at it the other way, historically it was said that the lease costs off a coach was £100,000 per year with other TOC costs meaning you need to triple that. Assuming inflation has at least doubled that means for each coach you run it costs £600,000 a year. Assuming you can't run a train...

Some of the more powerful smartphones are theoretically good enough to use as a replacement for a laptop by connecting to a keyboard, a mouse, and a monitor.

Almost why bother for such a short distance? Just put a battery in some trains.

Given that most places want services to London, then chances are that some trains to London would have run, as such the question is would running them one route over another would have been viable? Given that local services would have been desirable (travel to Sheffield and Nottingham) it's...

It depends, if the competition is serving Paris/other (currently) high value routes and making that less profitable than the other routes then it's possible that they could look to other routes to make money. Clearly the reason that Paris makes money is you can fill trains, however if others...

If you assume the delivery cost of £5 or a monthly subscription of a similar amount, it doesn't take you long to buy out right a reasonable drill. I don't know how many rolls you have, but most people would have a screwdriver set (these days quite often one handle and multiple interchangeable...

Woking could allow Southern Approach to Heathrow, so whilst not serving London there could be other advantages other than reducing delays and Crossrail 2. Southcote Junction could be useful to do (if potentially tricky to do) bit probably doesn't gain you a lot beyond 4tph between Reading and...

Given the 25 minute turn around, it might be possible to send the Basingstoke Stoppers to a new station at Oakley and turn then around there as there's only 2tph in each direction to worry about. Come in on Basingstoke platform 1, head to the WofE line stop at a Oakley (replacing a closed...