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I'm planning a trip for next week as a bit of a holiday. I'll be setting off from Nailsea & Backwell on Tuesday, heading to Porthmadog (hopefully taking in Aberystwyth on the way) for three nights, then doing the Welsh Highland Railway and the end of the Cambrian return to Pwllheli (possibly...

I was considering the Island Line's decrepit tube trains, and I started to wonder if an order for new trains could be tacked onto TfL's forthcoming "New Tube for London" order. Obviously the trains wouldn't be six car, and may need some changes to operate with third rail rather than fourth, but...

From the Thameslink website Seems like an interesting idea to improve customer relations, although it smacks to me a bit of the "student council" thing you may see in schools - a sop towards representation without any actual ability to affect things.

As you may be aware, RAIL columnist Christian Wolmar is running to be the Labour candidate for Mayor of London. I'm curious to know what the forum's views are on who should succeed Boris, and whether a transport journalist is better positioned than a politician to be a good mayor.

So, apparently the 319 George Osborne named has broken down... From http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/21/chancellors-northern-powerhouse-train-broke-down-three-times-in-four-months It's certainly quite fitting that the Northern Powerhouse has failed so regularly since Osborne got...

Given this is a forum of railway people there will be a fare few people who are trainspotters and/or minded towards self record keeping. So I was just wondering, how do people here map their travels? I personally map everything on Google Earth, and also create various maps of my railway travels...

I was out at New Barnet today (for slightly longer than intended due to a cancellation in fact), and I have to say, Virgin Trains East Coast seemed to be doing a lot of mixing and matching. I saw VTEC-liveried Mk4s hauled by East Coast liveried 91s, East Coast mk4s by VTEC 91s, full VTECs, full...

As you may be aware, the first stage of Crossrail's station at Canary Wharf opened recently, including the Eden Project style roof garden. As part of it, they've built a bridge to the building from North Collonade, the road on the north side of 1 Canada Square. Here are a few photos: Now...

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/26/8823655/gay-marriage-legal-scotus-obergefell-v-hodges As an avid follower of American politics, hell yes!

The first stage of consultations into reopening the Portishead Branch line to passengers begins on Monday. The consultation leaflet is quite an interesting read, there are some good diagrams and 3D mockups (interestingly they chose a 4-car Desiro as the passenger train), plus general information...

Does anyone know of a list of current UK railway stations with their opening dates? I know that in principle I could get it from Butt, or from Wikipedia articles, but I was rather hoping someone somewhere would already have collated the information into a nice table I can play around with in Excel.

I was going past Temple Mills depot last week, and they had two of the nice new 374 sets there. And I happened to end up counting, each set (of two units) has eight pantographs. Now, I know it's meant to be able to split into two trains per Channel Tunnel regulations, but why does it need so many?

Leading up to the general election we just suffered, the polls were clear - neither Labour nor the Tories would be a majority, and while Tories would likely be a plurality their vote share was roughly the same as Labour. Judging by the current results, the Tories had a 6% advantage in the end...

The exit polls predict that the Lib Dems will get 10 seats, and the results in so far show the Lib Dem vote share has almost completely collapsed, to the point that thus far they have mostly been beaten by the Greens and lost most of their deposits. I think it's pretty clear that the Lib Dems...

Someone pointed out to me that the Green manifesto suggests that copyright terms be limited to 14 years. Now, obviously it's a manifesto, which means it's a wishlist, and it's the Green manifesto, which means it's about as likely as seeing Isambard Kingdom Brunel come back to life to name the...

Greetings all. I've been researching Shirehampton railway station for Wikipedia, and I have learnt that, post-Beeching, the station buildings were sold off. They were used as offices, but burnt down in the 90s (ref Mike Oakley, Bristol Railway Stations, 2005). However I've been unable to find...