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It was a Southport-Manchester Oxford Road service. BTP got it wrong in their statement suggesting the train was travelling towards Southport

According to the Liverpool Echo the vehicle involved was a supermarket delivery van - so a ‘professional’ driver. “The ECHO has now spoken to an eyewitness who was on the train and witnessed the horror up close. Young mum Sophie Cassidy was at the front of the train as it crashed into the van...

Were the service a bit better every day of the week Edge Hill could provide interchange between the various ‘City Line’ branches.

So once in every few years golfing spectators have priority over daily commuters?

Wallasey Village-Wallasey Grove Road typically under 45 seconds

It’s a bit of a hike to the store. Avanti stations generally offer 20 minutes’ free parking (in practice a few minutes more) in the official car parks and I believe that is the case at Bank Quay. Since there’s only one entrance/exit, the passenger has to leave via the station’s front doors so...

The theoretical Sunday train service is Liverpool Lime St-Wilmslow. This should provide the only direct southbound connection (avoiding Piccadilly) from the Airport on this day. On Mondays-Saturdays there is of course a Piccadilly-Crewe train hourly. Since Northern struggle for staff on...

Oxenholme is another pretty obvious one.

Blackburn-Rochdale may be done either via Copy Pit or the longer route via Manchester Victoria. The quicker service is invariably NOT the one that says ‘Rochdale’ on the customer information screens!

I heard that the work might have been postponed owing to a damaged crane.

Presumably TFW will not pay Avanti to extend station hours to permit these calls? Maybe it will change under the Great British Railway.

According to the Thameslink website there is engineering work between Herne Hill and Streatham, closing some lines overnight from Monday evening until Friday morning. Monday to Thursday: The 22:37 St Albans City to Sutton service and the 22:54 Luton to Sutton service will both terminate at...

Shocking news from the broadcaster Deutsche Welle: .dw.com/en/germany-train-conductor-dies-after-attack-by-passenger/a-75797068

Most of the failures I have seen are related to frozen toilets. Hilarious that the train runs empty because the toilets are frozen then folk are put on a bus that, er, has no toilet.