Recent content by Redonian

The footbridge was removed around 11th April. The plan was to shot blast and repaint it then put it back. The original date for reinstatement was 4th July with the footpath to reopen on 20th July. Obviously those dates have been missed. The footpath closure notice gives the 6th October as the...

99003 worked 0F75 on its own. Passed through Rugby at 13:53.

Leominster Station is in a bad state. Refurbished with an EU grant some years ago to include 3 retail units including a cafe and the ticket office, now 2 of the units including the cafe are empty. When Network Rail sold off its land to The Arch Company Leominster Station was included. Since then...

I was on an Amsterdam - Berlin train yesterday. Before Bad Bentheim an announcement was made that the police would check all passports and ID. No such thing happened. Two very bored looking customs officers walked quickly through the train and that was it.

There are two Ukrainian sleeping cars which runs from Kyiv to Vienna via Budapest Keleti which is where I saw them in September last.

As my user name says I know Redon Station well although I no longer live in France. I have experienced connections not being held there even when it was the last TER train of the day causing some pretty angry passengers. It is likely that it will not be a cross platform change either so down...

Take this morning at Leominster but every day it's like this : Southbound - 06:21 dep 07:08, 06:49 cancelled, 07:28 dep 07:40, 08:44 doesn't stop, passed 09:07, 09:26 dep 09:32, 09:54 dep 10:03 Northbound - 07:03 dep 07:11, 11:08 cancelled.

The Wolsztyn Experience was never responsible for the operation of the steam service. They did provide a substantial financial input but this has declined over the years to the point now where, since the sad demise of Howard Jones, it will cease. Financial provision has, for some time, come from...

None of that is going to be of much consolation to people who can't get to college or work or may have important journeys. Given Network Rail's late notification that the work was taking place (for which they have had to apologise) , the failure of Tfw to post the replacement bus timetable and...

The Dinmore Tunnel enginerring works have overun. As a result there are no trains or replacement buses (save the handful planned Leominster - Shrewsbury) today. Leominster, Ludlow, Craven Arms and Church Stretton Stations have effectively been abandoned for the day. Leominster has a large number...

On Monday a colleague and myself had reserved seats on IC 142 Berlin to Amsterdam, 14:34 ex Berlin. We arrived on the platform to find that the train was not on the board. A member of platform staff said that the train had left early! We went quickly to the information desk and asked for an...

I had a claim for a 60 plus minutes delay which they promised to respond to in 10 working days. In fact they took 28 working days to approve it and the money is still not in my bank account.

I was in Wolsztyn a few weeks ago for 10 days. The present situation is that there is one serviceable loco Ol49 69. Ol49 59 is expected back from overhaul but its return is delayed. Pt47 65 is out of ticket and is awaiting overhaul. There are two steam hauled turns Monday to Friday to Leszno...

Work on the level crossing at Leominster on 2nd and 3rd October resulting in diversions of traffic on the A44.

Just had a look at the information for my local station - Leominster. There are different times given for the opening of the ticket office and for Information despite them being one and the same and both are wrong. There is contradictory information about buying tickets from a machine with this...