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I've just sent that the UK Railtours trip to Durham, Beamish and Newcastle was cancelled yesterday. Anyone know the reason why?

BBC TV Points West did a short feature on Bristol Parkway in its news bulletin last night, including an interview with the author Mark Chatterton who has written a book about Parkway railway stations. It starts at 03.00. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001726q/points-west-late-news-01052022

There's a piece about it here from the BBC with some interesting footage from its early days. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-wiltshire-61275648

Hadleigh Castle can be seen to the west of Leigh-on-Sea station on the c2c line.

C2c Line The best bits are: 1) The section between Leigh-on-Sea and Chalkwell, especially when the tide is in and the sun is shining on all the boats moored there. One of the nicest coastal rail journeys in Britain imho. 2) The section between West Ham and Fenchurch Street going into...

Next Sunday, 1st May, sees the 50th anniversary of its opening. As this was the first station to be opened with the 'Parkway' suffix,. I was just wondering if anyone knows of any special events taking place to mark this anniversary? I do know that one of the local papers is publishing a major...

With the easing of lockdown rules in the past few weeks I was wondering whether anyone on this forum has decided to make a train journey just for leisure? If so what were your thoughts on doing this and where did you travel to/from?

Made a visit to Worcestershire Parkway today arriving from Birmingham and departing to Oxford. I was there for about fifty minutes in the early afternoon. Here are my observations. The first thing that struck me was the car park looked well patronised. I would say at least a hundred cars were...

Slightly confused about the opening date. Although the article says Sunday 23rd February, it also says “next Sunday” and “next weekend” which is 15th/16th February. Both Cross Country and The Trainline are selling tickets as from Sunday 16th February.

Latest news. Both the Trainline and Great Western Railway are now selling tickets to/from Worcestershire Parkway as from tomorrow, 26th January. Cross Country are not selling them as direct from Birmingham New Street to Worcestershire Parkway, but you can still buy them if you go via Worcester...

Just checked the availability of tickets to Worcestershire Parkway from Birmingham New Street and the earliest date Cross Country and the Trainline are selling them is from Sunday 2nd February. So it looks like the possible opening date has been put back a week?

Looking at the weekday timetable for Real Time Trains it is showing a service from Bristol Temple Meads actually calling at Worcestershire Parkway. This is 1L98, the 06.24 from Temple Meads to Stansted Airport service which stops at 07.36. I thought direct services to/from Bristol were not going...

Just tried booking tickets from Oxford to Worcestershire Parkway for 26th January with both Great Western and the Trainline and they’re both not allowing them. However if you go on the Trainline and the Cross Country websites you can buy tickets to Worcestershire Parkway from Birmingham New...

Why wait nearly nine months before publicising this incident?

Thanks MikePJ. Does that mean that an individual somewhere decided to put brackets in the station name to compensate for this initially? Then they seem to have forgotten to remove them? It seems to be a bit of an anachronism if this is the case. I’m not sure if there are any other station names...