The obvious answer for GB^▸ (Great Britain) is TfL^» (Transport for London - about) in London. Fares are certainly integrated not so sure about timetables but the frequency of most services makes timetables uneccesary. Andy Burnham said on any questions he wants a TfM.

Germany is the obvious example for local services with fare zones arounf large towns. Buses trains (not ICE or IC^▸ (Inter City)) trams have common fare structure. Connections tend to be provided e.g. In Erfurt the last trams to edge of the city have guaranteed bus connections to places not served by the trams. In Dresden in the evenings many services meet at the Postplatz and wait for connections.

The trouble with GB we are obsessed with the Market and Competition.

Caught Crossrail Taplow Langley the other day a lot not earing masks.

Travelling on a train in Ireland 1959 Rover, Dublin Lochrhea Galway Limerick  Foynes Trallee Cork Roslare (via Mallow)
Eaten a curry on a train Railtour Buffet meal
Been on a Mystex^▸ (Train on which passengers don't know where they are going)▸ Slough via Worcester Lickey to Coventry  9 car 117, struggled a bit up Lickey!
Dined in a Restaurant Car Many times usually breakfast on business trips. Best: High Tea Leeds KX fried Halibut and cakes! Deltic hauled as well
Travelled on a line that was part of the main network and is now closed First journey Swindon Town Southampton
Driven a train Class 33 Light Engine Norwood Junction New Cross Gate Carriage sidings.
Been to a Railfuture meeting Reading
Travelled on the hanging tramway in Wuppertal Several times including in the Kaiserwagen.
Been to Aylesbury Vale Parkway Station
Been to Ebbw Vale by train Railtour
Travelled on the Lymington to Yarmouth ferry
Left the station in Taunton To Castle Hotel for lunch
Helped a fellow passenger lift their luggage on or off a train I’m sure I must have but can’t recall.
Taken part in an event such as "Community Rail in the City" at a station Coffee Shop at Reading
Done the gardening at a station Taplow Island platform
Travelled on a Groupsave ticket Axminister Exmouth 4 Adults
Overslept your station Can't recall doing so!
Gone the long way round to avoid a rail replacement bus Does using a diverted HST^▸ (High Speed Train) to get Foxhall curve at Didcot and new junctions at Bicester count?
Travelled through the Channel Tunnel Car Coach and Eurostar
Let your originally planned train go because it was too busy Does Tube Count?
Used a rover or ranger ticket Regular Summer Holidays from Southampton. One year West to Bounremouth and the next East to Portsmouth. [color=blue]Did both the Ringwood line and Fawley branch[/color]
Travelled on the DLR^▸ (Docklands Light Railway)▸ Manytimes
Understood all of the above without having to look up any definitions Yes

Re MMPA AGM^▸ (Annual General Meeting) Mike also said that the overbridge can be used by pedestrians when road bridge is flooded.

Where?

The coach looks like a write off. Just shows how musch crashworthiness has improved it would be interesting to see how a Mark 3 would have come out of it. Must have been doing a considerable speed.

Must be powerful magic to turn ahall into a Castle. 5051 Earl Bathurst a South Wales engine mostly at Llandore.

The north (Booking Office) gateline is now working and mannned.

South gateline is in place but not open (on Monday).

One thing my fingers don't seem to work the machine had to get the attendant to help.

The Greenford Branch is a bit of an anonmoly. In steam days it ran push pull from a laybe siding between Doown Relief and Up Main East of Ealing Broadway, not sure what the frequency was.

In diesel days it ran to and from Paddington. With electrification it is still diesel but cut back to a new bay platform at West Ealing.

The branch and West Ealing are definitely the poor realtions. West Ealing is served only by Crossrail with its Hayes and Heathrow Central stoppers. Whereas the branch is GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) Turbos.

Good connections from the West the Greenford departs 57 Heathrow stopper arriives 58! Hayes stopper gives 14 minute connection.

Down to Greenford from Padd is 13 minutes.


Up to Padd from Greenford  seems to be about 8 minutes

Down from Greenford from West Ealing is 8 minutes

Not very good particularly with an hourly service.

A look on Real Time suggests the Chiltern ghost Train is not running or I couldn't find it.

Customer Advice
Network Rail need to attend the slow lines between Slough and London Paddington for urgent repairs. Stopping services between Slough and London Paddington will be unable to call at Ealing Broadway.

Network Rail will have upset GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) Relief lines please

Agreed a very good tour. It was an interesting how difficult it is to run a train on todays fragmented railway. A whole list of different organisation had to be involved.

This compares with BR^▸ (British Rail(ways)) one of my jobs at Waterloo in the sixties was helping proof read Special Notices for Engineering work and special trains etc. Our bit were teh signalling instructions if it was special. eg I used to know the numbers of teh points to be clipped to get a special into Eastleigh works. The locol Inspector was task with job og getting teh points clipped, just as motive power was charged with providing power andtraffic with finding coaches., but everyone was under the same umbrella.

Nowadays one organisation provides the power another the coaches, another staff to clip etc. So it was triumph of organisation to get where we got to.

The catering staff were also excellent considering this was only their third trip and it takes some oragnistion  to feed a 100 plus people on a moving train. Despite tha the service and food were excellent.

Of course, the tour was right to exclude the Rhubarb loop as everyone knows that is old hat.

I haven't done it yet!

Got caught for a couple of hours in the old Scunthorpe yard by the slide bridge at Keadby. It was a hot day and they couldn't get the rail locks back in place after letting a boat through.

It was Hetertfordshires Roxey? Music Tour.

It also ended interestingly in that on approaching Stevenage an annoucement was made that all passengers for Potters Bar should alight at Stevenage as the main train was going via the Hertford Loop. However the late John Farrow arranged for ECS^▸ (Empty Coaching Stock) from Royston to use an obscure crossover from Up to Down thus we got some very rare  track and traveled wrong line on the Down Slow to Potters Bar where we alighted. I believe that was probably the last rain to use tha crossover and that it was removed shortly after.

Raises another interesting topic "How much infrastructure should be in place for the occasional emergency"

Way out, but I wondered if it's part of the Wilts and Berks canal. It sort of looks wet.

There's also Jocks Lane minature railway in Bracknell.

A candidate for Vivarails battery units with "Fast Charge" at Cholsey.

WECA^» (West of England Combined Authority - about)?