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Anyone who wants an armchair look at the island's railway infrastructure and rolling stock might like to know that Video125 are currently offering a free download of their Isle of Wight Driver's Eye View video (I think until the end of this month). It doesn't show the inside of Ryde tunnel...

Travelling on a GWR North Downs line train this evening, the normal scrolling list of stations was followed by a message for pax "travelling this Christmas". It then warned of NR works at London and Cardiff, and recommended visiting a website "GWR.com/Christmas 2016". Where might that have been...

I an always dubious about using Ticket On Departure (TOD), and events today have confirmed my opinion. I have a work trip next week, booked by my employer through our regular travel agent, with tickets to be collected using the booking reference. I didn't want to leave ticket collection...

In June's "Trains" magazine (from the USA), it states in reply to a reader's question that the standard US level crossing warning, long-long-short-long blasts of the locomotive horn, originated in Britain. (It actually refers to England, but then most Americans don't understand the difference...

Next month I'm going from Surrey to Liverpool for a long weekend, travelling on first-class advance singles each way, route via London. On Virgin I'm restricted to specified seats on specified trains, as usual for advances. The tickets also state specified trains on SWT, though of course...

Over on the extensive thread on the new SWT franchise, there was some brief discussion over the First/MTR intention to run 4 trains per hour to Portsmouth over the Direct line. In the days of the pre-Stagecoach shadow franchise (‘95-‘96), there were three Pompeys per off-peak hour leaving...

Travelling on UK Railtours 'Bridge Too Far' tour last Saturday, we spent some time shuffling in to and out of Church Path Pit sidings, just east of Ebbsfleet. While doing so I noticed a substantial bridge across HS1 just south of Ebbsfleet International station, which has no approaches from...

I have a question prompted by reading a short story over the weekend, in which a character was described as regularly taking a train to London, always sitting facing the engine. This struck me as an anachronism, since although there are still loco-hauled trains into London, AFAIK they are all...