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Good point and you are right! I forgot how the French are as I was thinking more of Netherlands and Germany which do seem to be able to get this kind of thing right, such as Amsterdam Central or Koln Hbf. I am just saying that for £800m it could be better.

At last, someone prepared to speak out against this monstrosity and you are not alone. Yes, visually it is stunning, if anyone doubts that then go next door and look inside the dinghy trainshed that is Kings Cross. Yes, it is wonderful that we have a high speed line and trains. Yes, it is...

A good point in terms of operating convenience, but when there is a choice, I hardly think burning diesel is better than burning electricity. Even where there are wires all the way, such as Birmingham to Glasgow/Edinburgh, Virgin plan to use Voyagers for self contained journeys. It just isnt...

How much to ship it over here instead? pay approx £4, which is $8, a gallon n the UK, so you got nothing to complain about! and as for rail fares, I see that Lebanon to Nashville is $5 one way for 32 miles. Try $20 for the same distance here (mind you for that we get all day, 7 day high...

Hmmm, all very well and politically correct of Sir Dick, but political bollocks from Gordy Brown. This is the man who has held the purse strings of this country for the past 10 years and who therefore is behind the cancellation of all the urban light rail schemes that would have made a huge...

BBC news is a good place to start http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6392197.stm As usual, the ill-informed and uneducated are getting into a frenzy about rail safety - read some of the comments posted - and calling for all manner of actions to be taken, including fitting of seatbelts (!), speed...

Thanks for fixing the link for me, I dont know how to do it properly.

dont know why Veolia or TriRail havent press-released it yet on their websites yet, but http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/bro...la-news-broward (edited by AmtrakWPK to fix the link)

Veolia it is then.

A new UK train operator Grand Central Trains is to lean heavily to the past with its marketing strategy. Not only does it plan to adopt a US 50s retro style, including heavy use of Marilyn Monroe images internally, but it also plans to name two of its services The Zephyr and The 21st Century...

thats the bit I cant comprehend! How far is it, 140 miles? Thats not even London to Sheffield. Even if Sheffield had an airport (note the UK's 5th largest city, pop 500k, has no airport), anyone who admitted to flying that distance would be chased out of town by the green lobby as a...

Rick, an interesting scenario here - I know its 450 miles but what with check in times and transfers, what is it that stops your colleagues considering Acela instead of flying? Is it time, cost, convenience or just ingrained habit? Im not being judgemental, just an observation of the...

Thanks again. A timetable is like a map, it can tell a whole story about an era, about demographics and even social history if you can recognise the clues. In that respect I may struggle with a US timetable, but it would still make fascinating reading.

thanks for the info. Have seen the CD advertised, not really interested in that except as a last resort, a bit like having the Mona Lisa as a jpeg! Prefer to have the real thing, aged, beaten and battered if necesary. Will check out Trains classifieds.

please oh please tell me how i can get hold of one of those! They sound like a work of art to me. Do they include all trains run by all companies or just long distance trains, and do they include detailed nationwide maps? If I were able to get one, I would want one that represented the...

This, believe it or not was what I found at Framingham MA, January last, and constituted the only Amtrak information available. Nowhere was there any timetable information showing the time the Lakeshore? departed. Is this normal? http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o54/Bri...os/P1210020.jpg...

Have just taken a look, they are great posters, some of them are 24 x 36. Are these the kind of things you would find on stations or are they for off-site advertising? I was also wondering if individual stations display train departure times on poster boards. When I was in Boston last...

Now you may think this a bizzare question, but there is sound professional reason behind it. Is there an industry standard poster size and frame that Amtrak or any other operator would use for their promotional posters and wall/carousel mounted station timetables? Do such things exist and is...

Thanks Beyond belief! It really wants to make you weep for 4 reasons: 1) magnificent buildings left to rot, bulldozed or turned into theme parks at the expense of; 2) passengers relegated to 3rd world facilities because; 3) of the ignorance of history and future needs; 4) the blind...

Hi I know trains stopped using the terminal in 1978 and moved to a 'shack' down the road, but can anyone tell me when they started using it again?. What puzzles me is that a search on Google Earth for the station address shown on the Amtrak website points you to the shack, whereas the ariel...