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Confirmation came in today that British-born artist Daniel Dumile - known to millions as MF DOOM - passed away on the 31st October. His wife announced the news today on Instagram. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mf-doom-legendary-underground-rapper-213745775.html Dumile is responsible...

Christmas Day brought with it the death of Martin Lambie-Nairn at the age of 75. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/dec/28/martin-lambie-nairn-spitting-image-co-creator-dies Lambie-Nairn was one of the co-creators of the monolithic satire Spitting Image - he was actually the one...

Which currently-open stations on the network have had closure suggested since privatisation? Beltring and Swale both had closure proposed in 2005 by the Strategic Rail Authority.

Hi folks, Just curious as to how you're all spending your Christmas. We've got Carols from Kings on at the moment, dad's in the kitchen and I'm about to follow suit. No meat in this household; there's this recipe for this lovely kind of pastry-covered nut roast thing which we pull out every...

A key microeconomic principle is this: in a monopolistically competitive market, firms will seek to differentiate their products from rivals' in order to achieve their economic objectives. One example of this is branding. The creation of a distinct corporate identity can be a great asset to a...

From another thread: This begs a good question: which lines were closed due to geological or meteological events? The one that springs to mind for me is the Berwickshire Railway. Running from St Boswells to Reston on the ECML via Earlston, Greenlaw, Duns and Chirnside, it was forced into...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/05/09/taxpayers-face-5bn-bill-extend-emergency-measures-railways/ The article is behind a paywall; I managed to copy the text before it the blocker loaded. There's no way that this government of any would be inclined to do anything even approaching...

I couldn't help but wonder...when East-West rail has eventually opened between Aylesbury Vale Parkway and Bletchley... Does anybody think we'll see the Ian Yeowarts of the world apply to run open access services from Marylebone up the WCML using bi-modes in order to get past ORR abstraction...

It'd be good if we could keep a catalogue going of good places to refuel or rehydrate while out on our travels. So reply to this thread to get the ball rolling! Give us your recommendations. I'll start us off with Canterbury's own Unicorn Inn. It's just on the other side of the level crossing...

Let's take a look at Whitehaven–Cleator Moor–Frizington in Copeland. The Cleator Moor station would be in the centre of town under Leconfield. In terms of the preserved alignment, the Frizington station – at the foot of Parkside Road – is too far out of the way to be useful; a station at...

Imagine if the TransCumbria line were still open... Among other things, you could have a sleeper. An overnight service to Penrith, Keswick, Cockermouth, Workington, Whitehaven and St Bees would do a decent trade, and you could also potentially route it via the Settle and Carlisle if the...

I wanted to pay my respects to Tim Brooke-Taylor, who's sadly passed away at the age of 79 due to COVID-19. I think it says a great deal about him that he was a voice of both my parents' childhoods and mine. For me, it's through hearing I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue on the radio. Rest in peace...

I'm writing this from the 17:59 VT service to Euston. The wires down at Garstang have thrown the WCML into disarray. I boarded the 13:03 Penrith ex-Glasgow train to London at 14:15, arrived in Preston at 16:20, waited onboard with the rest of the train - no announcements were made. Over forty...

On another thread, somebody mentioned how Corby gets relatively low usage (most recently 0.297 million) for its population (69,500), being some way behind Harlington up the line which registers significantly higher in the usage statistics despite having a tiny fraction of the population of Corby...

Poll goes back to 1983, the year of the Serpell Report.

Some of these names are pure poetry: Berry Brow St Keyne Wishing Well Halt Sugar Loaf Castleton Moor Ribblehead Sampford Courtenay Copplestone Causewayhead Torver Kirtlebridge Arkleby ...what other station names do you especially like?

Following from the discussion of the events unfolding at Ayr, I thought I'd start a thread discussing the viability of the line between Girvan and Stranraer. I believe that the line is viable. Stranraer isn't some small market town with a population of three or four thousand - its population...

MOVED from the Southeastern new franchise bidding thread I imagine that Southeastern High Speed to Hastings and Bexhill, via Rye, might end up in at least one of the bids. It would require electrification, of course.

Which stations on existing lines would you consider re-opening, or freshly opening? I'd like to suggest Workington North; it was very handily positioned to serve Dunmail Park (which mops up a great deal of local shoppers) and if there's anything left there then it would be very easy to reopen.

Hi all. I was just wondering which of the Edinburgh-Glasgow rail routes people prefer to travel down. Admittedly Falkirk is the fastest - but, aside from reasons of speed, which would you choose if you had a choice?