BBC report £9bn to be spent on railways

[Herr Tubthumper]

Much needed and welcome move. But why dont they just be honest and now say it's Plan B?

 

[SeagullSarge]

I'm the engineer on site at the train depot for the BBC today, maybe I could leave a strategic note saying "HS3 - Brighton to Falmer"

 

[GT49er]

It's just another way for the tories to hand out money to their mates - at our expense. The train companies will get better profits, network rail gets a freebie, the construction people make a mint.

This is normally referred to as money-laundering............unfortunately, it's with our money

 

[newhaven seagull 85]

Think they did a Brighton to Manchester route, don't know why it stopped though ??

to let the passengers off!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

My all-time favourite Service Alteration poster was the one that appeared over Christmas a few years back.

"On 27 December, the 0915 train from Brighton to Manchester Piccadilly will start from Portsmouth Harbour and operate to Liverpool Lime Street".

 

[Lord Bracknell]

At one time, Virgin had a plan to run an hourly fast service from Brighton to the West Coast Main Line (Birmingham and Manchester) - but this was scuppered by the (then) Strategic Rail Authority who wanted any spare capacity on the Brighton Main Line to be dedicated to more frequent Brighton - London services.

This latest electrification announcement, together with improved capacity through the Thameslink tunnel offers the option of extending the Brighton - Bedford service to Sheffield, as well as the introduction of regular Brighton - Peterborough services (for interchange on to Kings Cross - Newcastle / Edinburgh trains without the need to set foot in London).

 

[kevo]

My all-time favourite Service Alteration poster was the one that appeared over Christmas a few years back.

"On 27 December, the 0915 train from Brighton to Manchester Piccadilly will start from Portsmouth Harbour and operate to Liverpool Lime Street".

On a slightly different theme, my favourite ever tannoy announcement at a train station was at East Croydon: "Due to a problem with the annoucements system, there will be no announcements".