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Yes because for the past 18 months or so, only trains towards Birmingham have stopped pre-match and away from Birmingham post-match. The club have been running shuttle buses from the city centre to the ground instead for anyone who doesn't fancy the walk.

I guess your mileage may vary with it depending on where you're relieving a train

'Additional' running brake tests are useful for testing adhesion in known and suspected dodgy areas but the mandated RBT as soon as you take over a train or change ends (, etc, etc) isn't necessarily going to be much use for that purpose.

I reckon it was about 4 or 5 years ago now, it was apparently all set to happen... ...and then a notice appeared fairly last minute to say it wasn't happening, and I've heard nothing of it since.

Noticed quite a few 165+168 combos popping up on Birminghams lately, was wondering if they're booked diagrams since the timetable change but I'm guessing not?

Timetable here https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/media/7090/download?inline No Sunday service. Tremendous stuff.

All 3 stations are in fare zone 3, so the same as Kings Norton and Bournville.

The train takes 15 minutes, all day every day. The bus is timetabled to take between 20 and 35 (and can turn out to be longer) depending on the time of day. Think that's worth 60 pence of anyone's money...

Yup. XC used to stable a spare Voyager (and a 170?) in them through the day, however the walking routes to the sidings have been out of use for about 3 years now since resignalling took place, so it no longer happens. You do occasionally get trains passing through the sidings still though.

One of them has been being used as the Camp Hill route learner, which might explain why the branding has been covered up. Edit: There we are, see post above!

You know what HS2 could really do with? Another respec and redesign, just to make it take even longer to materialise and cost even more...

You forget that this is a country full of miserable, spiteful people who will object to absolutely anything.

The most recent update - from December - has a render of the extension on the Up side of Moor Street, so presumably the lot is getting done. https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/major-step-forward-as-midlands-rail-hub-alliance-confirmed

Correct. The original suggestion was that the 0604 gets in the way of the following train beyond Kings Norton because it's 3 minutes later than it would be but it isn't, as it's running in it's normal path by that point.

It leaves Redditch 3 minutes later than usual but is back in the standard timings from Longbridge as trains usually have 4 or 5 minutes dwell there, so the time from Redditch wouldn't make any difference to the train following it from Kings Norton.

It's a non-issue, really. I'd even say that publicising the fact that a red light might lead to a driver sticking it in emergency could create a bigger issue by encouraging idiots to start waving red lights around for ****s and giggles

All it needs really is to be made fully permissive, rather than the current rigmarole that has to take place.

In theory yes and it's best to turn it off but in practice, it's quite obvious when it's the light on someone's bike

You're doing something wrong then because you have to go up another escalator from the main concourse to end up in the shopping centre...

The Cross City, the Walsall line and the Shrewsbury line all had trees on them for a start. Points were set mainline at Stoke Works so, even once the Camp Hill had been de-treed, nothing could run to Worcester. There were issues with staff getting in early (and issues with late staff who had...