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Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/altnabreac-station-and-the-various-legal-disputes-around-it.257526 I wonder how much court time is actually spent doing work which achieves 'justice', and how much is mere bureaucratic pushing things on a bit? If the time-lags...

Algeria: The 950km line from Bechar (31°41'11.3"N 2°09'36.9"W connection to existing line) to Gara Djebilet (approx 26°48'58.0"N 7°27'16.8"W) opened today (it is said). Mainly to serve iron-ore mines but also carries a passenger service. Partially shown on Open Railway Map, Google Aerial and...

I have to make a journey from Blythe Bridge to Manchester this week. The train from Blythe Bridge calls at Stoke-on-Trent then continues to Crewe. Trainsplit offers me the usual £26.50 Off-peak Return (SVR) but requires me to alight at Stoke-on-Trent, then take a rail replacement bus to Crewe...

I went walking earlier in the week, finishing at Glossop. Ending my walk, the Northern TVM at Glossop automatically offered me a single which included Metrolink Zone 1 (city centre basically). I had forgotten about this so saved myself £1.40 (for a Zone 1 single). When I got to Manchester...

I thought I would start a thread specific to this operator as they now operate a number of services in the north Staffordshire area. As an opening contribution the company recently started another new service, running between Hanley and Ball Green via Milton. It takes an historical route number...

An urban rail service is due to be launched in the near future in the capital city of Madagascar - Antananarivo. The following photographs appear to show some second hand rolling stock acquired for the service. Can anyone identify them / their source please? No prizes awarded for pointing out...

Details of the Affordable Fares scheme released today: Link here.

Managed to get it all in the thread title! Last week I bought an Off-Peak Day Return (CDR) from Blythe Bridge to Manchester. The new(ish) platform vending machine insisted on me giving it both outward and return times before it would sell me a ticket. Two issues: firstly I wasn't certain of my...

From The Sentinel / Stoke-on-Trent live today. I haven't linked to the story as it is in the constantly updating 'latest news' section. The 'pipe' in the picture is the collision beam installed around 2015. Here's a link to the Network Rail press release for installing them at this location.

A tweet, link to twitter Continues: Also affects other routes into Hereford.

mods note - split from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/december-2021-timetable-change.221802/ Or to run those ECS as public services, or use one of the existing public services and run it via those diversionary routes once per day, for example the first or last train of the...

This article appeared in my timeline on twitter. Any views? It received some rather negative responses. I can kind of see some point if they can be coupled together to form a 'real' train for a long distance haul (say from port to inland clearance yard) then be split and sent individually on...

The thread New Station Calendar provides a list of stations "considered to have a good chance of being delivered in a reasonable timescale". I have created this thread to list the many speculative schemes and stations that I have identified to date. Some of these proposals are very speculative...

An article in The Times yesterday (Friday 19 February 2021) states: I have the article in old fashioned print version and the on-line version is, I assume, behind their paywall. It includes reference to a quote "Boris Johnson once pledged to eat his ID if he was ever forced to show it by the...

Here we go, the first reporting I have seen of a crime committed under cover of government mandated face coverings. A conversation on one of the COVID-19 threads discusses 'how long will the face covering last' with a response along the lines of 'until CCTV is shown to have been rendered...

A teaser headline from Railway Gazette International: Does anyone have any more information. I don't have a subscription or sign-in rights.

A report has been published by Transport Focus, detailing their review of the Appeal Process relating to Penalty Fares. As strange as regular readers may find, it concludes that the process is neither transparent nor rigourous. It makes the following recommendations: Personally, I would have...

Following on from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/my-idea-for-compulsory-e-tickets-tickets-before-travel.199127/#post-4405368 How many NR stations currently have: a ticket office open throughout the day, a ticket office open part-day, a TVM, a permit to travel machine, no...

Left hand, meet right hand. Right hand, meet left hand.

I don't seem to be able to get the site to load, or any of the sub sites. Haven't been able to since Friday. Have tried various browsers with and without cookies etc. blocked. Have searched Google and other search engines to see if it is being raised by others. Can anyone else get it to...