Railway passenger boom continues
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That's awesome. Now if they'll open up more of the closed lines, that would be even more awesome.
John
p.s. Bobby - your personal messages inbox is full. I tried responding to your message and it bounced.
John
It is awesome. Up here in the north of the Kingdom, Scotland has seen several re-openings and now the UK Transport Minister is planning revitalisation indown south. So for all the arguments about who should control our rail infrastructure passnegers are booming and long may that continue.
Oops, sorry about that PM hitch John. At first i thought you had Edinburgh roots (Glasgow v Edinburgh is a great competition!). Hopefully you can get back to me now!
Bobby
Oops, sorry about that PM hitch John. At first i thought you had Edinburgh roots (Glasgow v Edinburgh is a great competition!). Hopefully you can get back to me now!
Bobby
Nope not even close, although I stayed in Glasgow North Dakota during the summer.
I find it interesting on what's happening elsewhere in the world when it comes to politics and railroads. We have a lot in common over here, much more than a lot of people want to admit, and I don't just mean city and town names.
John
I am not surprised at that figure i.e. 1.5 billion passengers annually, but in what conditions do they travel? Recently my wife and I took a short break in the Cotswolds, Kingham, near Stow on the Wold. On one of the days we decided to go to Oxford and rather than go in the car we decided to go by rail from Kingham to Oxford, the journey being only 28 mins approx.
Well, what a shocker and mistake it was! The train was like a mobile sardine tin, absolutely overflowing with people, standing room only, extremely claustrophobic and thoroughly unpleasant and we had a return journey to look forward too, and that was a week day off peak!
Never again!
Rob.
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