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Inspired by a couple of posts in the ‘First London Termini visited’ thread, I wondered how far it is possible to travel by train in this country in daylight. And that also set me wondering how far it is possible to travel from this country in daylight. The parameters are: 1) this is about the...

It really isn’t!

Moderator note - Posts #1 - #5 originally in this thread: When was the final cull of sleeper services down to their current scope? | RailUK Forums (railforums.co.uk) I remember my one and only time watching trains at Euston as a kid - my Dad took me up there for a look, stationing ourselves...

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has this morning published the above report. It makes recommendations to Government on the priorities for major rail projects in the regions, given likely capital constraints. From a quick read, it seems that delivering both the HS2 eastern branch...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54381848 Not sure whether this is a good or bad thing for the Trump election campaign It could cause him to miss key rallies etc in the run up, weakening his campaign Or it could cause a wave of sympathy for him amongst the American electorate. Or...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-54350046 Particularly enjoyed the lead engineer saying “This is cutting edge technology”, whilst on something that to all intents and purposes is a Class 319 squealing through some track work. Anyway, it’s out testing on the main line.

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/plans-for-rail-service-from-kent-to-gatwick.209242/ Strictly speaking, MK isn’t in Buckinghamshire and wasn’t at any point when the Connex / Southern services operated from there to Gatwick.

A spin off from the cycling thread. I cycle around Hertfordshire / south Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire a fair bit - about 2,500 miles since April, mostly on country lanes and B roads. This summer I have also cycled in Worcestershire, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. What I noticed in...

Let’s say you are booked a journey with a cross-London connection with a through ticket (ie not split). Obviously there is a minimum valid connection time to get from Terminus A to Terminus B, and that would be taken into account in the itinerary. But is there a maximum connection time for delay...

There have been lots of comments in several virus related threads hypothesising that the railways will see a significant drop in passenger demand in the medium to long term when the travel restrictions are withdrawn. I’m genuinely interested to see whether that will be the case or not...

From the MML electrification thread: The grapevines suggest that Government is keen, and IMHO we will see some announcements this year to a) restart some (but not necessarily all) of the ‘paused’ schemes, and b) kick off studies into other proposals. All will make good news, particularly with...

Not a poll, yet, as it’s too early (and definitely not because I don’t know how to create one :oops:) But who would you like to see as next Labour leader? There’s a lot of love for Kier Starmer, but for me he seems a bit too cold and won’t connect with all the voters he needs to. He’d also, I...

In the last few weeks I’ve seen a number of people in Sainsbury’s opening food that is in their trolley, then eating some or all of it, before then putting the wrapper / pack on the checkout belt and paying for it. More often than not, it has been a hassled mum giving a young child a biscuit...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/most-least-successful-recent-large-infrastructure-project.192697/ I’ve spent a bit of time on the Castlefield corridor recently, and by far the best and easiest thing to do to improve timetable resilience would be to have...

I didn’t know where to post this, so have gone ‘General’. Over the 8/9 years I’ve been on the forum I have contributed to hundreds if not thousands of threads. Some of these threads are long running serial dramas, others are one hit wonders - here today gone tomorrow. I get alerts to tell me...

Anyone know what’s going on at Gatwick tonight? The skies above Kent and the channel are chock full of planes in holding patterns, and both Luton and Stansted are filling up rapidly with diverts. EDIT: news reporting a drone near the runway....

Slightly surprised this hasn’t been posted before; I’ve done a search and can’t find it on the forum, but if it has been posted please feel free to report to mods and move / merge as necessary. Michael Holden’s review into performance on SWR / NRs Wessex route was published a few weeks ago. It...

Evening all. A good chum of mine recently experienced a curious incident, which set my mind thinking, which in turn has led to me discovering - I think - an oddity about GB registration plates (number plates). As most of you will know, since September 2001 GB number plates have been in the...

My iPad (a 2 year old Air 2) upgraded itself to iOS11 a couple of weeks ago. Since then it has been nothing but trouble. It runs more slowly, some apps tend to crash, the new keyboard is extremely frustrating, and typing often freezes, occasionally causing a web page to hang up. Indeed it just...

Mod Note: This thread has been split from the thread on the 700's here: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?p=2653927#post2653927 I've said it before, and will say it again. What is the issue with plug sockets? Can people really not manage to charge their phones / tablets / laptops /...