Recent content by stu227

Interesting question raised by a civil engineer friend - setting aside how ugly they are, does anyone here know why the canopies at Whitefield station on the Manchester Metrolink are effectively built upside down - ie the 'roof' part of the canopy is attached to the underside of the steel beans...

Thanks for the responses. How interesting!

Seems it's not just me: https://www.reddit.com/r/uktrains/comments/1ipmldb/avanti_pendolino_armrests_are_the_london/

Excuse my feet - on a pendolino today coming back from Manchester and the leatherette is starting to come off some of the arm rests in standard on the refurbed seats. Apologies if I should know this, but was this an experimental colour moquette that was never used? Looks very much like London...

All gradually getting back, was just over 90 minutes late into kgx which is good really, under the circumstances. Some wife of a train driver on my service was demanding to know why the train wasn't moving when her husband had told her the line was clear. I think husband thought we were on the...

Still no sign of movement at Biggleswade, but some LNERs are going round the Hertford loop. Just had a fast northbound pass us, but would welcome any insight from those who know! Thoughts to all involved as always.

Just on what I think is the second train through so should start recovering. Lots of emergency services still at Romford.

I once had the misfortune of travelling London to Edinburgh and back with Lumo. The whole experience was unpleasant, from luggage restrictions, to the scrum to join the train as staff only unlocked the doors a few minutes before departure and the entire experience thereafter. Despite their...

This is very useful. We have decamped to Costa with a good book and will try again later!

If by reduced you mean nothing at all, you'd be right! Nothing has moved at Shenfield for over an hour now.

Yep. Absolutely nothing happening on GEML for almost an hour now. Getting a bit nippy!

Well, it wasn't too expensive, so the occasional down day or two is to be expected... What amazes me, is that it took around seven years for them to sort the signalling on the Jubilee line extension, and yet the same organisation was contracted to do the signalling on the Elizabeth line, and...

Almost Exactly a year ago I spent hours on a damaged 158 on that very line between Machynlleth and Welshpool when a train hit a tree branch that had come off one of the trees lineside. Definitely could do with better management, but the scale and cost of the task would be immense across the...

Dunno if it might help future visitors to this page, but I caught the train from Kyle yesterday, seemed to be two services - a 1020 and a 1509. I caught the latter, and very nice it was too!

There was an old guy at Liverpool St who used to do this regularly. Miserable as sin, took absolute delight in despatching as early as he possibly could, usually best part of a minute before scheduled departure, while passengers ran for the train. He particularly liked it when the rear train...