Recent content by P Binnersley

For Swift Go you have to "tap" in and out using the ticket machines. You must use the machine on the same platform. Not sure how this works at island patforms. Swift Go T&Cs For Swift PAYG (pay as you go) you still buy from the conductor on the tram! Swift PAYG T&Cs

If the goods loop has gone; slewing the Chase line over towards the goods loop alignment would allow for a wider platform which should allow a lift to be installed.

Acording to The National Routeing Guide in Detail (Section F): They give an example of Stratford upon Avon to Solihull being vaild via Birmingham. As there are direct trains from New Street to Tame Bridge Parkway via Soho/Perry Barr there does not have to be any doubling back.

The return workings are on Real Time Trains. Journey time is 13 minutes.

The DMU Group (West Midlands) have a timetable on their facebook page.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0031260/midlands-today-evening-news-01092026 (expires 18:59 this evening). SVR starts at 07:18.

Acording to the West Midlands Railway wesite site FAQ you can buy tickets at Kidderminster (WMR) station. Somebody on facebook has already brought a Bewdley to Stourbridge Junction ticket at Worcester Shrub Hill.

The Old Belgrade ("waterfront") station in the centre closed in 2019 and all tracks have now been removed. The station building has been retained, but google street view (2024) shows it surrounded by hoardings. It is supposed to become a museum, but there is "confusion" over which museum...

On one occasion (several yeara ago) I asked a member of staff and they retrieved the ticket from the barrier (doesn't work if several passengers have made the same journey).

I've been looking to make a similar trip. Bus replacement from Andoain to San Sebation (16km). The train has a note (Trip with incident). "Due to infrastructure work, passengers traveling to/from Palencia will travel between Palencia and Venta de Baños by road. Pets and bicycles are not...

Hey Jude! West Midlands Railway offers free rides to fans amid World Cup fever Judes (Judahs, Julians, Judiths & Judys) travel free on the Stourbridge Town branch 13th-19th July.

There are some photos where you can read most of the notices on Google Maps (April 2025).

The appeals panel have 21 days to determine the appeal or there is no liability to pay the penalty fare, only the fare for the journey. (The Railways (Penalty Fares) Regulations 2018) They can't reject an appeal because your daughter is under 18. (The Railways (Penalty Fares) Regulations...

One person tapped in and out, paying a fare for one person; presumeably you. If the name they have is the person who tapped in and out then there is nothing they can do as tyhat person has not committed an offence. They do not have the details of the "ticketless" travellers.

The first trams have run through to Dudley (Flood Street) as the first stage of commissioning the extension (Transport Matters video).