Which are the most important factors of a train journey to YOU?

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[grahame]

Catering   - 7 (1.9%)

I wonder how that compares with posts on here as a proportion of overall posts (excluding stuff like the Lighter Side).

You put me between a rock and a hard place if I try to answer that - ignore it and I'm not following up on a poll I started, but answer it and we're back on ....ing catering.

Accessibility and Catering are both parts of the "system" that don't apply to everyone - accessibility only to those in wheelchairs, pushchairs, heavy luggage, walking with difficulty and transporting owls around; catering only to those who's journeys are medium to long ... on a network where so many journeys are short.  I don't know what the figure for GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) is - but I recall the UK^▸ (United Kingdom)'s average rail journey being just a bit over 20 mile and you ain't going to want to use a trolley, buffet or restaurant car on that ... and GWR has a mix of services unlike LNER^» (London North Eastern Railway - about).

I could (but am disinclined to) write a database query to weight votes in the poll based in proportion to the number of posts made by the voter in the last (say) 6 months ... and I would be pretty sure the relative proportions would change.  In other words, our I believe our poll better reflects the quieter majority of members rather than the noisy few of us who distort the appearance that postings give.  I will add ... the only "low response" item I voted for was "final mile" - the issue of getting to and from the station in the first place!