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As long as it was more reliable than the ICE ;)

The other thing that would be good about re-nationalising would be that you'd probably get proper railway people attracted back to the industry rather than corporate middle managers just trying to make a profit.

And stop split ticketing, delay repay denial, arguments between TOC and Network Rail as to whose fault a crash or delay is and stop rogue TOCs like LNER changing well established pricing structures or Avanti deliberately not recruiting enough drivers and then cutting services to Manchester in...

You say 'big thing'. I say terrifying. Especially if you're, say, freshly arrived in the city, conditionally trained to check traffic the other way, poor at picking out unmarked cycle lanes and have spent most of an evening in various establishments in De Wallen. *shiver*

Got to be. And according to another thread it was a Brighton fan who made the business case. Most of the rest of Europe manages to make train travel efficient and affordable. I suspect that here the government are prioritising planet polluting cars over public transport so that they can “limp...

LNER are owned by the government. They’ve just removed (super) off peak fares and introduced surge charges. It’s not that Labour would reduce fares, it’s that a government owned TOC is pioneering stitching up football fans (and anyone who has to travel at short notice on a busy service)...

Problems continue today as the work that’s shut Kings Cross carries on till Tuesday. Money Saving Expert is very much not amused.

For me it's a combination of social and freedom. Going by car there's a maximum of four of you with two adults squashed in the back, the driver can't drink and must stay alert or have a back up driver who also can't drink (Sheffield would have been, what, 8 hours driving from Brighton?). You've...

Wait till you see what LNER have done. These people hate us. Only a change of government is going to improve the trains.

Kings Cross is closed so anyone wanting Leeds or Doncaster has to go via Sheffield. Sheffield trains are taking longer than normal. Feel sorry for any Albion fan caught up in this but some of us warned about exactly this on the match ticket thread. It’s why I picked the cup game to travel to...