@jonmsterling @tml @albertcardona @elduvelle I'm all for improving the train system, but I worry that this is unnecessary FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) w.r.t. people making transit decisions. I've traveled between Southern England and Scotland probably four or five times now (and other long distances in the UK) and sometimes it takes longer than advertised, but the magic of a train ticket being "any permitted route" means that Google maps can just route me around missed trains. And Oxford<->Cambridge is annoying but certainly doable for a day trip with an early morning start. Perhaps I'm less optimized for reliably getting places on time than you, but I think there's a strong case to be made for not refusing to use infrastructure until it's perfect.