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Excluding HS1, there are currently no sections of track in the UK with a line speed greater than 125mph. Therefore, if issues of cost were ignored, which stretch of track would most benefit from having its line speed raised to 140mph. By section of track I mean a stretch of track of between 20...

I am planning to travel from Fort William to London on Saturday 3rd May 2025, which is the May bank holiday weekend. My preference would be to travel to Glasgow Queen Street on the 07:44 train and then on the Avanti service from Glasgow Central at 12:40. Does anyone know if either of these...

Three out of the four Avanti services I have been on this summer have been delayed by between 20 and 30 minutes. All these services were on the West Midlands route. For example, the two Birmingham to Euston services I have used were both xx:47 services, Both incoming services arrived late into...

I know Rishi Sunak may not be popular with many on this forum due to his decision to scrap phase 2 of HS2. However, overall I think he was the best off the Tory Prime Ministers between 2010 and 2024, although I know he is against some pretty poor competition in this respect. Sunak did finally...

Over the past year, I have increasingly noticed that many, perhaps even the majority of the public call stations ‘train stations’ rather than ‘railway stations’. ‘Railway station’ to me always seemed to the more typical way to describe National Rail stations in British English. Is this change in...

I am thinking of visiting Hull on a Sunday from London. Their first class advance ticket for the return on the day and time I am looking at is only £15 more than the standard class ticket. What food offering do Hull Trains give on first class on Sunday? Their website suggests it is a sandwich...

It is clear that the Elizabeth Line’s performance has not been great over the past year, which is something both the London Mayor has said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67704738 One idea would be to simplify the service pattern, with two services on the line, one from Abbey...

I was caught up in the Avanti largely giving up running services north of Preston disruption on Saturday 7th October. I was meant to travel from London Euston to Oxenholme on the 08:30 train, which should have arrived at 11:10. My friend, who was driving from Southeast England was due to pick me...

Currently it takes roughly an hour and half to travel between Birmingham and Manchester, which for a journey of approx 70 miles comes out at 47mph, which I think is quite slow for an intercity service, particularly when you consider that they are the second and third largest cities in the UK...

I am currently sailing back from Guernsey to Poole on Condor Ferries. I am booked to get the 19:07 from Poole to London Waterloo on an Advance Single, however the ferry departed 85 minutes late, so I am almost certain I will miss this train and have to buy an off-peak single. Do I have any way...

What do people think South Western Railway’s likely timetable will be on Friday 1st September? The 1st September would be the first day the SWR train drivers have been on strike during this current industrial dispute. My initial assumption was that they would run no services at all, like most...

To me, the large English speaking nations are Australia, Canada and the United States of the America. I think it is fair to say that none of these countries have great passenger rail systems, with their rail systems being primarily optimised for freight transport and air travel being the main...

Due to the ASLEF strike, what is the best option to get to Central London on the 31st May? My flight arrives at 19:15. As I see the options are: 1) Get a taxi all the way. This seems to be the most convenient, but will also be very expensive and I do not want to be waiting in a two hour queue...

What timetable plans do railway operators have for King Charles III coronation on Saturday 6th May? Are any operators running enhanced or perhaps reduced timetables? I can imagine flows on Saturday 6th will be very high into London in the morning and out of London in the late afternoon /...

This weekend there have been well reported stories of overcrowding at Marylebone and St Pancras stations due to the closure of the WCML south of Milton Keynes for engineering work. Engineering works on the WCML at Easter seem to have become as much as an Easter tradition as Easter eggs and...

There have been quite a few threads here about how CrossCountry does not work well at the moment, with frequently overcrowded trains, low frequencies and poor connections. My proposal to solve some of these issues is for CrossCountry to solely operate services on the southwest to northeast...

There have been quite a few threads recently about timetables and the withdrawal of certain trains such as the Crosscountry HSTs where it has been debated whether they are the right thing to do given the overall poor state of government finances and the desire to encourage more passengers to use...

Section 2.41 of the National Rail Conditions of Carriage permits passengers to take up two dogs or other pets on trains free of charge. https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/National%20Rail%20Conditions%20of%20Travel.pdf Given the finances of the railway are not great at the moment, should train...

There have been quite a few threads recently about how the railways are in trouble, that it may never recover and will enter a period of decline. However, very recently, from 1995 to 2015 there was a very steep increase in passenger rail use, with passenger use more than doubling over this 20...

I would expect coach operators at the moment are having quite a lucrative time at the moment due to the railways’ problems such as the strikes and frequent cancellations that some operators are experiencing. However it would be interesting to know if this is actually the case. Have coach...