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I thought the Woodhead route might be a contender, but the speed limit appears to have been only 65mph.

Definitely of interest to me. The NE waterways are the busiest they've been in a long time at the moment. The most consistent traffic for several years has been Exol Lubricants' tanker 'Exol Pride' working from Hull to Rotherham. Casper River & Canal Transport have been investing heavily in...

A 360 was dragged from Derby back to Kettering this evening (a friend saw it) as 5R62 https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K39563/2025-07-15/detailed There seems to have been a move in the morning from Kettering to Derby, 5R21...

In case it matters in future, I'd consider going on to Huntingdon which gives you more bus options (T1, X3, Busway B). From St. Neots it's just the 905.

The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway had these initially, but they didn't last long before being permanently switched off and signed 'out of order'. The 'New Routemasters' were originally intended to operate with the rear platform open for hop-on/hop-off boarding supervised by a conductor, similar...

It's a coincidence that the running time to Blackfriars Junction happens to line up with the service frequency. If the trains were slightly more or less frequent, or that section of journey took a minute longer, they wouldn't arrive at London Bridge simultaneously.

Only part of one spandrel wall and abutment collapsed - the arch barrels weren't affected at all and the damaged area rebuilt as-was so no change to clearances. It looks like a relatively high arch so might not need altering though.

There's been a consultation in the last few months on closing it, with either a footbridge or pedestrian underpass replacement.

I meant when the station first opened in 2017. For the first six months or so there was a pause, eventually they added a recording and it started working properly. I'm no longer in that area so wouldn't know if it's regressed recently.

For a few months after Cambridge North opened they didn't have a recording for that either. "Welcome aboard this <pause> service to Kings Lynn. Calling at Cambridge, <pause>, Waterbeach, Ely, ..."

Yes, tickets can be - and routinely are - bought on board. Booking online even in advance is only a marginal saving, e.g. £14 vs £16 for a Guildford-Heathrow single, not like NatEx where walk-on tickets are extortionate vs advance booking. Some minor Dews corrections for changes made in...

Now you're including 'bus-like' coach services, the RailAir services RA1/2/3 from Heathrow to Reading, Guildford and Watford respectively probably count. I think the megabus services m82 and m87 (shown on the inset top-right) have ceased? A friend and I used an earlier version of this map (in...

Regular commuters will know which platform their train usually departs from. Having a flashing sign to get their attention is probably a good idea.

Isn't a pair of 90s in multi restricted to about 7500hp to reduce load on the power supply? Originally by isolating one traction motor on each, then electronically after Freightliner started routinely operating them in pairs. The quoted 6.17MW is 8270hp; even if that's at the pantograph rather...

4' 8½" became the standard from being adopted for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, which was the first 'real' mixed-use long-distance railway and quickly extended in various directions. Originally it was 4' 8", copied from the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the extra ½" was found to reduce...

Trains are designed to carry 7 passengers per m² of standing space, plus those seated, which is about as many as can physically fit so the 'limit' is self-enforcing. In the current issue of Modern Railways, Ian Walmsley mentions that being an issue when removing seats from 455s to create more...

That's counting the narrow-gauge railway, as technically not ruled out by the question. ;)

Being more pedantic, the post says nothing about the stations being National Rail or even standard gauge! I would submit Fairbourne as having eight stations with a population just over 1000. Or for towns, Tywyn with three stations and just over 2000, although there may be better candidates. (I...

Lynx (in Norfolk) are consistently very good. Detailed real-time information about disruption, any staff I've spoken to are informed and helpful. No surprise that it's run by the same people who set up Konectbus mentioned above. MD Julian Patterson even showed up once, in his Porsche, to...

When Cambridge North first opened, the Ely/Lynn fasts didn't call but the GN semi-fast 2Cxx was extended to terminate in the bay at North. That lasted for a year or two before it was cut back and a Liverpool Street service extended in its place. Commuters from Foxton etc. to the Science Park...