Posts Tagged ‘ Network Rail ’

I remember travelling on many grubby trains. I and many other regular train travellers would like to know how clean they really are

Could it be fanciful to suggest that the cave was used during another pandemic time for some purpose?

What is it about the users of toilets at Glasgow Central that is so different from those – a mile or so away – at Glasgow Queen Street?

How many more debacles must we face before a complete re-think on how we run railways is undertaken?

The Southern problems need resolution. How about it loses 30% of their train operating rights and that is given to an open access operator so that they can provide a rival service with rival pricing?

Without fail, Network Rail and the companies plan timetables akin to Sunday services and schedule engineering works that mean unbelievable disruption at a time when festive bonhomie is supposed to ride high.

Am I exaggerating? Will a national railway strike starting at 5pm on our bank holiday weekend next May really ruin it?

Network rail announced an idea for a new high speed train route that would travel from London and linking Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Birmingham could be reached in 46 minutes, Liverpool in 83, Manchester in 66, Glasgow in 136 and Edinburgh in 129.