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The only books I have seen referenced are very old and hence mainly relate to the period before partition. Hundred Years of Pakistan Railways: Pakistan Western Railway 1861-1961, Pakistan Eastern Railway, 1862-1962 Malik, M. B. K. Published by Ministry of Railways and Communications, Karachi...

For drivers and on-board staff what if any are the main differences in terms and conditions between the various open access operators and other passenger train operating companies, given the owning companies of the former are the same as the latter?

Has any candidate, apart from Count Binface, published their manifestos yet? There seem to be various announcements but not seen all their policies set out anywhere. There are a number of unclear statements about Sadiq Kahn wanting to set up a publically owned bus company but its not clear if...

Agreed - Shaun Bailey a total unknown was only 5 percentage points behind Sadiq Kahn in the first round last time round - if the Tories had put up a better known candidate it is not inconceivable they could have won especially as we have moved back to first past the post voting. Susan Hall has...

What's wrong with Mayors - I bet few people can name the leader of their local council but the majority will know who their elected mayor is. Thereby raises local accountability.

Plenty of them do a good job. Not sure the level of incompetence and corruption varies much between the main political parties as any reader of Private Eye will have noticed.

I never knew this - an odd couple if ever there was one

Based on the recently published ORR origin-destination data rail in 2018/19 had 29% market share Glasgow to London, 38% Edinburgh to London, 23% Birmingham to Glasgow and 21% Birmingham to Edinburgh.

just Stratford

HEX has been stuffed by the Elizabeth line and loadings are well down compared to pre-COVID

Based on some very old, c15 years ago, data and bearing in mind that revenue allocation to a train level is highly dodgy, the most profitable trains then, based on a very rough calculation of revenue per minute, would have been morning peak services from Brighton to Victoria, Birmingham New St...

We did some work a number of years ago on station devolution to TfGM and you would be surprised at the benefits that arise from reducing anti-social behaviour at stations, not only in increased patronage, reduced fare evasion but also reduced disruption from less trespassing and even reduced...

The Elizabeth line goes outside Greater London

Given all these routes are loss making - no-one is cross subsidising anyone else 1711110234 Both seem to be major improvements to me

Each to their own but that is a very unappetising menu in my view

what people say what they want and what they vote for tends to be very different

At stations - they stop often enough

lots of trains operate DOO and in this case there is still a member of staff who could move between units. An example of passengers coming last again?

Class 91 locos are still operating services out of Kings Cross

Stratford