Recent content by john77

I seem to remember Roger Ford in Modern Railways about 10 years ago saying that the overhead line voltage north of Berwick could drop to values well below 25Kv, which was why the Marshall Meadows upgrade was needed. I was therefore surprised when it got "descoped", apparently after some...

I was puzzled to see some pointwork painted white in the depths of Edinburgh Waverley recently, in a location where the sun can't shine.

Two of our volunteers saw a Shunter on the back of a lorry parked up in a layby on the A1 in Northumberland today, might have been a class 08, in black livery. Anyone know where it was going ?

You can definitely use a first class interrail pass to access the lounge at King's Cross.

We travelled back from Montreux today on the last day of our FC interrail passes, hoping to catch the 17:03 to Alnmouth. The lack of information in the FC lounge and on the website was amazing. I only knew something was up when I overhead a train crew member telling one of the receptionists that...

The latest date I saw was for the line to reopen at Adamuz on 7th Feb, but since then it has been suggested that the poor weather will delay it further. The latest landslide will not help.

Sorry, no, it's not opened, we used the Rail Replacement Bus (RRB).

Just a note to say that I have travelled this line three times in the last three years, most recently on Friday and today going to Madrid and back from Malaga, with the RRB in the middle. The journey has alway seemed pretty smooth and this time was no exception, we have never experienced any...

I volunteer for a heritage railway and we used to be able to buy used ballast (of variable quality) from our local NR depot. A year or so ago they emailed all their customers to say they would no longer sell it in that state as they were going to start cleaning it for reuse, either for...

I noticed that today and thought I had done something wrong. I also wanted to book a northbound train from KGX on Saturday 25th October but they aren't on sale yet. But the calendar doesn't tell you this like it used to, the date is just unresponsive when you click it. In the past it woukd have...

Sorry, I thought you meant the driver training runs wouldn't be using 90s.

I think they will....

Thanks for the information, that explains why there's no trains but there's still nothing about it on any of Scotrail's communication channels and it seems strange the situation changed overnight on Monday.

Yes, but the strange thing is that when I checked yesterday, everything appeared to be running as normal on the 30th. There's nothing in their engineering works calendar or twitter feed for that period.

I am trying to buy tickets from Alnmouth to Milngavie on 30 January. When I checked yesterday it gave me a route from Waverley to Queen Street, changing there to the Low Level. When I checked today the only route is via the Shotts line to Central. I checked RTT and there's no trains showing to...