Recent content by SomerWinton

I've been watching the progress of the station build-out over the last few years and have generally been impressed with the place and like the new passenger platform transfer bridge to the west of the old station buildings.... ...that was until I had to change trains twice at Reading a couple...

Possibly controversial and definitely pie in the sky, but if we're talking about resilience for Plymouth, West Devon and Cornwall by providing an alternative to Dawlish - sorry Torbay, Teignbridge and the South Hams – we do need to look at Exeter. I think I’ve seen in earlier posts, and I...

I can't understand why, though, that the loops were built on a high embankment, when around 500m down the line southwards towards Wallers Ash tunnel. There is ample land to provide four tracks at near enough grade where the up and down lines diverge from each other horizontally and leave quite a...