Recent content by deepthought

I use an ad blocker and don't have all those annoying ads and if you want to support a favourite site you can allow ads for that site only. I agree with you on the auto play videos but at least it warns you on the main service disruption page so you can get ready to stop them.

Last night's debacle. Stock for 1S25 had a problem after arriving in Euston. 1S26 stock in platform 15 was utilised for 1S25 and eventually left 2347. Passengers for 1S26 sent to Watford. The original 1S25 stock went to Wembley yard for defective coach to be removed and reformed. The stock then...

I don't know the details but problems started last night around 2245. The last London to Preston (1P09) was diverted from Warrington and travelled via Chat Moss to Manchester Piccadilly platform 13 where it reversed and then went via Bolton.

After having issues in the distant past and nearly doing something drastic I always keep the Samaritans number in my phone and I just keep it under Sam. I haven't needed it in a very long time but it's there just in case.

I didn't have any other option. I was with a tour group of about 30 and we got stranded in Minehead and no company in the area could provide us with a coach so we had to service bus it to Taunton and the train tickets they bought us were group tickets and we needed to be with the rep to get us...

About this time last year I had the joy of travelling on the last Taunton to Cardiff service after a day out went wrong and we just caught the last service. There were a few unpleasant people who got on at Taunton and left at Bridgwater. Someone got on at Bridgwater and was arguing with somebody...

Not helped today with problems with the bridge between Cardiff Central and Queen Street. GWR seem to have given up with trains terminating at Bristol TM. Not a good day to travel to south Wales.

That's very poor considering the Penarth, Barry and Vale of Glamorgan services are all bus replacements this weekend.

Any decent Northern official would have said to Burnham the process works fine and to alter it would involve cost that can be better utilised elsewhere. That is the way I would have replied to him.

Problems with the stock again apparently with the Glasgow portion of the lowlander cancelled. RTT showing 1S26 as running to Carstairs so I assume the Edinburgh part is running. Info from the Caledonian Sleeper website.

I have to agree, trains being cancelled daily due to traction shortages and they are sending trains to the scrapyard. Absolute madness.

So the massive hole in the finances that has been discovered by Labour that was left by 14 years of Conservative mismanagement should be ignored? The usual will happen Labour will get the country back on its feet over the next ten years hopefully and then the Conservatives will come in again and...

Chatting to an Exeter driver who works the sleepers and I asked why the NR is being cancelled and they told me that nearly every week they have to ask drivers to come off their booked work to crew it due to lack of cover. The question must be asked of GW why they haven't trained or traction...

There used to be a FO working 1M89 1715 Cardiff to Manchester and the ECS coming from Crewe CS. Normally a pair of 31/4s but I did get 31270 and 31530 one day but had to bail at Newport for work reasons. 31270 and 530 Normal traction

I know as much as you do. 1621169355 Yes I have been enjoying that cam and I was lucky enough to see 66245 with its ECR mods and livery with a car train.