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We have the Oxford tube, which even after though you have fast Paddington-Oxford GWR trains exists alongside it and passenger loadings are always busy, it’s like a ordinary trunk bus route/suburban semi fast rail line Is there a case for a similar type of coach service for Cambridge? I know...

A few years back there were ambitions for HS1 to be extended to Rye and Hastings (Eastbourne in the peaks), it would have connected Rye to London in less than an hour. Things have gone silent on this front, this may have been shelved due to Covid. But will this ever happen?

I’d have thought these would have been consistent stops, I now domestic hs1 trains don’t skip Ashford but I did notice that some trains do miss out Ebbsfleet and/or Stratford.

Always puzzled me this, what was the rational behind this? Is it a load spreading tactic or just because there is more demand at those stations than at Catford which does have Catford Bridge next to it.

I know a extension to Tring was on the list of possible extensions to the new line. In light of capacity constraints at Euston, would it be feasible to send the current Milton Keynes semi fasts through the Liz line core?

The very rude person at the ticket office at Sydenham said a Network Railcard wasn’t allowed for such journeys even though I’ve bought similar tickets before between Charlton & London and to other places. My girlfriend and I ended up using contactless because our train was due but it’s...

In the Southern Region (more specifically South Eastern) there area number of Seaside excursions this year. Today was supposed to have been a Cannon Street to Ramsgate service, fast from London Bridge to Lewisham then all stations via Blackheath and Woolwich to Dartford, then selected...

The Jubilee line was built initially to relieve the Bakerloo line, was it ever considered which branch the new line would take over or was the Stanmore branch always the plan? How different would things be had the Jubilee taken over the Harrow/Watford branch?

Is Leeds; the largest urban area in Europe without a transit system about to finally get one? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-55822915

Not sure this is the right place to post this but feel free to move this to the right area. I saw this map on Twitter from Abbey Wood and it shows a rather bizarre stopping pattern on the Woolwich line. It shows Greenwich still having trains to Charing Cross even though these are completely...

Wasn’t this supposed to happen at some stage? Seeing the sheer number of people transferring from the North Kent line onto the Elizabeth line at Abbey Wood (and Woolwich to an extent) I would have thought that a timetable change would occur at some point in the future, when the DLR arrived at...

I recall that this was an alternative a few months ago to extend the current Dartford services via Woolwich/Abbey Wood to Ebbsfleet International, would this be feasible or worth it?

Imagine money is no object, which cities and large towns do you reckon should have a tram, light rail or metro rail system? For me Leeds should have a tram/light rail system, Reading is large enough for such a system too, I always thought the guided busway in Cambridge should be a light rail or...

Would we be near to a third Crossrail being built? would the Chelney be a tube, light rail or a main line railway?

In the early 2000s when the Gillingham semi fasts were rerouted via Greenwich, the replacement service via Lewisham was initially the Dome Express which ran from Victoria to Plumstead, this was later rerouted to Cannon Street, yet this service was semi fast as it skipped Woolwich Dockyard, St...

Has there been any changes announced? I did hear a while back that the CX to Dartfords via Woolwich could be extended to Gravesend in the peaks to feed CrossRail demand into Abbey Wood but not much more than that. What changes could be made if any? I know CrossRail doesn’t intersect with SE as...

If the Bakerloo line extension doesn’t happen for whatever reason what alternatives could take it’s place? 1: A Light rail 2: An express bus transit 3: A tram

There’s probably already a similar threads but I did search and nothing came up so here goes 8-) Much like the Broad Street thread what are your memories of using Holborn Viaduct? Unlike Broad Street, HV was at least replaced with City Thameslink (I wish for it to be renamed Holborn...

Aside from the Met line fast and semi fast peak time services to Amersham/Chesham, the non stop run between Finchley Road and Wembley Park and the Piccadilly line non stop run between Hammersmith and Acton Town What other skip stop/express services has the tube ran in the past? I know that the...

Could a split between the old London & South Eastern and the London, Chatham & Dover railways ever work in this day and age?