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Avanti trains are longer, meaning they're less likely to be overcrowded. On those routes, Avanti trains will be 9 or 11 coaches, Cross Country may be as short as four coaches. Cross Country's trains are also noisier, having a diesel engine under each coach floor, while Avanti's trains are...

Just to be Overly Pedantic (ref post #4), that should be "Old Peculier". https://www.theakstons.co.uk/pages/theakstons-old-peculier

The post you quoted referred to driving "from Aberdyfi" ;)

I doubt whether authenticity is too important to much of that market. The previously used standard class mk1s were open saloons not compartments and Black 5s look different from a maroon Hall. In other HP-related tourist venues, people ride in a cable-hauled "steam" train with screens instead...

Might it be related to the fact that every recent change at Euston seems to be intended to make passengers' experience of the station as inconvenient, miserable and unpleasant as possible? Euston has never been a welcoming place but the current management seems actively to despise those people...

One major difference is that AIUI railway locos run on untaxed red diesel. HGVs are required to use taxed white diesel (aka DERV) which is much more expensive. That means road vehicle operators have more of an incentive to go electric, especially if they can negotiate cheap off-peak tariffs.

That NR statement is contradictory. There is level access from the main entrance only to platforms 1 and 2. To get from there to platforms 3 - 8 means using the very same ramps referred to as "steep" in the second paragraph.

Westkreuz, Ostkreuz (and Sudkreuz) are the main western, eastern and southern interchanges between Berlin's radial lines and the outer circle S-Bahn lines. I don't think they imply a need for a single central Hauptbahnhof. But I accept that it's most unlikely London will follow the example.

I could see merit in Old Oak becoming "London West Cross" and also renaming Stratford to "London East Cross", following (e.g.) the Berlin example. Renaming Stratford might also help international tourists who are following the Shakespeare trail to avoid ending up in the wrong Stratford. But I...

There is step-free access to all platforms via the subway, although of course only to & from the main entrance, not the back route.

When I read the title of the thread, that was the one I automatically thought of. Bank wouldn't ever have been one that I'd have considered.

Yes, and/or between Smallbrook and St John's, but how much work that might entail I've no idea. Some of the track in that area is (or at least was) notoriously bouncy, it used to be amusing to stand at one end of a 483 aisle and watch a full coachload of passengers bouncing up and down in their...

IIRC the problem is north of Brading only, as Brading > Pier Head > Brading takes longer than Brading > Shanklin > Brading, and it's the northern section that is difficult to do reliably in 30 minutes. So any time-saving effort needs to be between Brading and Ryde pier.

I don't think that works ...? Or at least, not if having all trains going to Pier Head. You have a northbound train at Brading, which has 32 min to to get to Pier Head and back to Brading - fine. But the next train now has only 28 min to get to Pier Head and back - which doesn't work. I think it...

I can understand TfW pitching this as a positive story, but the statistic that for most months of 2023, less than half of trains arrived on or within three minutes of right time, is a pretty awful one. So while 80% is a big improvement it's still well short of satisfactory. But I hope that...

It won't be steam (or not yet anyway) as there are no steam locos with ETCS. I believe Tornado is due to test an experimental device later this year, which may or may not prove to be both practical and/or economic.

Many years ago, I had a 2-litre mk1 Capri, which had the V4 engine. It looked lost under that bonnet! The radiator was about a foot back from the grille.

I think SWR would be very disappointed if they were expecting Island Line to produce a profit! Even in normal times it's only kept alive by subsidy. Like all other TOCs post-Covid, SWR are currently paid a fee to operate the service level mandated by DfT, with all ticket revenue (such as it...

As far as I know, UK numbers have always been a minimum of a letter and a digit, starting from A1. Guernsey has numeric only plates, so it's possible that some or all of 1 - 9 might still be in use. I think they issue plates to people rather than vehicles, but if that's right, I assume they can...

Thanks. I'm a bit surprised that there isn't a backup generator for that (which wouldn't be practicable for traction supply). Or maybe there was and it didn't cut over successfully (which I have encountered in a non-railway context).