But there is no transport provider in the world that can ever guarantee you will get to your destination bang on time and that includes Germany and Japan. And really, although we'd all like to be on time, is 5 minutes that big a deal?
Well they could just halve the number of trains they attempt to run. It would mean every single train was full and standing and there wouldn't be enough capacity for everyone. It's the sheer number of services they attempt to run that means that every naughty signal, every punter who holds the...
My God - are you being deliberately contrary? You say you can only go on what you see but a succession of posters have explained in detail what is causing today's problems yet you are choosing to ignore them. I assume you feel the same way about the recent landslips at Dawlish and Oxted etc -...
For the one billionth time - it makes very little difference which railway companies run the train services (FCC excluded who are pretty hopeless), the infrastructure is Victorian and in need of billions and billions of pounds of investment that no one can afford and which would shut down the...