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Track bed dried out due to the drought lots of speed restrictions all over the Anglia network but the Fens are worst affected.

We had access to the 55 Broadway canteen when we were at the SRA in Victoria Street. Whereas OPRAF had access to a Lloyd’s Bank canteen when we were in Golding’s House at London Bridge. When I started at BR in 1980 based at Euston House I do remember a small coffee shop snack bar on the 3rd or...

There don’t seem to be many changes in GA land except one extra peak service in each direction on the GEML. A new 07:09 SX Colchester to Liverpool Street which results in some consequential changes to other services, the most noticeable is the 06:48 SX Clacton to Liverpool Street which is...

The owners being Colchester City Council who are responsible for most of Wivenhoe Woods.

The owners in this case was in fact Colchester City Council who own most of Wivenhoe woods.

First westbound Elizabeth line train left Stratford just after 08:00. NLL services restarted about the same time. If signal maps are to be believed there are still around 10 GA trains on the Main Lines and the on route to Tottenham Hale to be removed. GA state that service restrictions will...

No they were 720s, presumably the OLE isolation allowed electric traction on the east side of the triangle or the wires through East Gates level crossing were reenergised but out of alignment for electric services to operate until the remedial works were undertaken overnight.

Indeed, all of the longer distance 730 were changed after it was realised how cramped the 720 layout actually was.

Unless it is hauled by a bi-mode it won’t be getting back to Crown Point until Monday as the line between Ipswich and Norwich is closed this weekend for engineering works. it does seem that the Stadlers are much more unreliable on the Stansted’s than they are on the GEML or the branches, I...

GWR 800s and 802s have divided and attached at Plymouth since introduction and AWC 805s divide and attach at Crewe and Chester.

There’s a c2c class 357 centre vehicle on its own outside Ilford depot with bands or straps wrapped around it, any idea what it’s there for (movement by road possibly?)

Looking at the GA changes Stowmarket calls are now in all London - Norwich services except the 1 fast up and down service on Saturdays. This has enabled tidying up of Norwich departures in M-S to be at xx:00 and xx:30 (except the 08:57 SO fast mentioned above). This gives Stowmarket 4 trains an...

Other improvements planned that haven’t been delivered were 4 tph to Southend Victoria (driven mostly by the then expanding Southend Airport), doubling the 2 hourly Peterborough to Ipswich service to make it hourly and extend it to/from Colchester, a handful of through London services off the...

The 11:30 Kings Cross to Edinburgh was described on the station CIS at Kings Cross on Christmas Eve as the Carolean Express. It was the 11:00 departure in the previous timetable.

The GA 745/0s only have blinds in 1st, the 745/1s being all standard don’t have any at all. Seems very mean to me the sun doesn’t only shine on the righteous 1st class passengers!