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That reminds me of kids (and their kind parents) hoping that school's closed for snow.

Heathrow, backed by most business, almost all MP’s, other regions and Scotland, won the day anyway. So the awful Brighton Mainline won’t be getting a further 45,000 daily passengers.

The true funding required would've been in the £10B's for the compulsory purchase of land/homes in London. The early Victorian route is boxed in by urban development, with birds nest of routes crossing each other, stemming from those pioneering days of rival companies setting up their own lines...

And some people thought it a great idea for Gatwick to get a second runway, doubling the numbers using Gatwick Express. The South East England network is creeking at the seems. A major rethink is needed, cross party, and the infrastructure/land needed will cost £10B’s.

He obviously meant the combined period included Labour governments. Labour in power from 64 to 70, 74 to 79 and 97 to 10. The decline in our railways has been a constant, including millions of working days lost in pay disputes, lack of investment, lack of joined-up thinking; all goes way...

Looking in advance at booking train tickets for the Albion's trip to Anfield in August. We'll make a long weekend of it. Totting up the fares for two of us, it's at least £220 for crammed-in standard class, but the Sunday service is shocking (engineering works?) with an array of changes...

:thumbsup: The infrastructure isn't fit for purpose.

Please check the facts, not party rhetoric. Deja vu, from another railways thread a month ago. This government is pumping in record £15B in total each year on the railways - subsidies to the operators and to Network Rail for new infrastructure. Whether state or privately owned, our complex...

Correct. And everyone hated British Rail with a passion, even though it only had to deal with half the passenger numbers. This goes beyond party politics. Britain has an early Victorian rail network, boxed in by urban sprawl, with horrendous bottlenecks such as Clapham Junction. The Germans...

A couple of Friday's ago on a rare rail trip to London: 1. Journey from Brighton by Thameslink - train cancelled with little notice. Followed by a long wait for the next. A regular commuter said "this is common". 2. Return that afternoon, long before the rush hour, we caught the fast/express...