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On 13.23 Plymouth 125 (MO) to Edinburgh yesterday. Due to 'animals on the line at Ambergate' we were diverted at Derby via Trent Junction etc, rejoining at Clay Cross. I take it that Sheet Stores junction to Trent East junction sees regular passenger or is it a 'rare curve'? Had it not been for...

Despite Spain's financial problems, the government still seem keen to press on with the high-speed network. I don't have a view on that and the attached article is mainly concerned with Portugal's cancellation of a cross-border line! I will leave others to speculate on a Scotland/England...

Bu++er!! http://www.belpernews.co.uk/news/pullman-carriage-destroyed-by-fire-at-ripley-railway-1-4385641

Deal agreed with BAM Nuttal...mind you weren't they the outfit that so successfully built the Cambridge misguided busway? However seems they were the only bidder, so best of luck! http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/transport/deal-puts-300m-borders-railway-on-track.17117200

Apologies if this is covered elsewhere, and no doubt seasonal, but what passenger diags do DRS operate these days? Cheers, Jim

Not sure whether this should be in infrastructure or nostalgia! Does anyone have an uploadable picture, after closure, with all the birch trees growing through it? It seemed to live on for years like that...indeed when I passed yesterday it still seemed to be a true brownfield site...

Apologies if there is a thread more appropriate for this. I notice in the Yorkshire Post that there's a bit of a buzz about the prospect of more mining at Boulby. Anyone know whether all that lot is still rail connected and whether we'll see mineral trains running from the area?

Yesterday, I'm convinced I heard three separate 37 movements in the morning. I was nowhere near the station, but you know what Growlers are like in full tilt! Anyone know local movements?

An interesting article by Steve Broadbent (always enjoy his infrastructure articles) on future improvements in Scotland. However, anyone notice this tasty snippet buried in Steve's precis of the issues hindering speeding up Edinburgh/Glasgow to Aberdeen. Doubling or renewing the Montrose basin...

Aologies if this happening elsewhere... I'm told the works have been delayed due technical complexity with the future signal works, which seems reasonable...it can't be that easy to slot in another running line these days (I am not being cynical...OK in the old days it'd be done over a couple of...

West Coast 37 and a fairly knackered looking Pullman coach at Skipton yesterday...southbound. Any thoughts?

A history question...many old goods yards had reception, sorting and cripple sidings but can anyone shed light on the railway use of the term "Klondyke sidings"? For instance, looking at a 50s layout of Newport (NER) yards, there are a substantial set of sidings, to the outside of the main...

Not strictly preservation, but a potential and bold reopening nonetheless http://www.cesgrouppartnership.co.uk/ --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Interestingly, Ecclesbourne are generally supportive, though surprised at the optimistic time and cost estimates but see potential for...

Apparently DRS are in recruitment mode. Anyone any thoughts on what new services they have won?:D

Sorry cannot find the original question...seems it was hired by DRS to move timber. Sorry best I can do!:wink:

A contributor to the firstgreatwestern coffeeshop forum has observed that the rail access to the dockyard "complex" has recently been weeded with sleepers earmarked for replacement. Instructions for rail grinding at various locations also in evidence. Anyone any news about future activities...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294732/The-look-inside-futuristic-high-speed-train-nicknamed-Concorde-tracks.html All very pretty eh?, but it'll never happen in this country, so I hope they get plenty of orders from abroad. Where all these, so called 15-20000/hour passengers, that...