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Definitely not bad news for the GWR but despite working on Cowley Bridge junction after the last flood that is what caused the problems this week, not Dawlish.

If tiny little stations in the Aso caldera on Kyushu island in Japan can have the station name in both Japanese and "English" why do we only do the reverse at Bicester? Is it only Bicester? Doesn't Southall have Urdu signs as well? OK, so I'm not suggesting every station should have...

How big would a central database need to be? How much bandwidth would be needed to check a train full of people at one of the London terminii in the rush hour?

I'm white. Some years ago I made my way up to the London end of the island platform at Ealing Broadway. Most passengers on that platform congregate at the country end (3 car trains, long platform). I was waiting to get a shot of D1015. After I'd been there 10 minutes a member of staff...

Going back to the reason for the original post the OP seemed to suggest either 4 tracking or grade separation. That conjured up images of a double deck 4 track railway! Would grade separating junctions really produce the same capacity improvement as 4 tracking?

Grant, a member of the GWR social media team, has just said (on Facebook and in answer to questions) that Henley and Slough will be using 365s from December 2017 and that Marlow will retain 16x.

I have the unfortunate experience of knowing someone who committed suicide. The method used (not the railway) was one that suggested considerable thought had gone into the planning. I'm inclined to accept that minimising the information given in the case of a suicide is probably the best...

Pilning car park has gained 4/5 portacabins and a materials yard and seems to be a base for some kind of work (which I'm assuming is electrification related). There have been piles visible for some time but on Friday it was also possible to see, in the distance looking towards Bristol...

The south is by no means immune from such issues. The last train from Weymouth towards Yeovil, Castle Cary etc is dry on Saturday nights.

Nominations haven't closed yet (1st April?) and I guess that's when the official manifestos will be published.

I was looking for the Southwest Airlines (domestic USA) polict and came across this https://www.cheapair.com/blog/travel-tips/airline-policies-for-overweight-passengers-traveling-this-summer/ which is a summary of sevral US domestic airline policies. The "seatbelt extender" is obviously...

An interesting discussion which has parallels in the aviation industry. Many people seem to believe that an airliner will divert immediately someone on board falls ill. In practice the nearest airport may not be capable of handling the aircraft and it may well be that continuing, at least a...

I'm getting confused (not difficult!). The discussion here seems to revolve around 100/110/125 mph trains yet this thread http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=83452 keeps talking up the idea that the overhead will be 140mph capable and there seems to be a view that, in due course, that...

As far as I'm concerned we need a functioning modern national network. Getting misty eyed about "heritage" has no place on the network. So, we're going to put overhead across Brunels bridge at Maidenhead and through Sydney Gardens, Bath. What would Brunel have done? He would have strung...

Some years ago I visited Japan. None of the trains I travelled on (local as well as Shinkansen) had any way of knowing a seat was reserved, I just had a seat number and sat down (ok, not commuter services). I didn't really think about it, just put it down to "Japan is different". But I've...

The recent stranding of a Voyager at Dawlish, having been hit by a wave, had me wondering. If (and yes, I accept it's a big if) how do you electrify along the sea wall? Water and electricity don't seem to be happy bedfellows.

The USA wasn't the only place that had electrification in short bursts. In New Zealand the sections were extremely short; the Otira Tunnel and Christchurch/Lyttelton on the South Island neither more than about 15 miles point to point.

As I understand it the proposal to acquire more Hitachi trains to replace HSTs to Devon and Cornwall is actually for "IEP alikes". In particular, they will have the same diesel engines but there will be no power in reserve as (apparently) there is on "real" IEPs. Would it be fesible to...

Grove Park is in south east London. Right? Well yes but back in the 1950s Chiswick (south west London) station was "Chiswick for Grove Park" because it's in a part of Chiswick called Grove Park. One day my dad met a rather confused gentleman and after some discussion it turned out this man...

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned what I believe is called "gricing". As I understand it the term refers to travelling over all the lines you can. Then there are "micro gricers" who want to travel over every crossover etc. They want to get to the end of each platform/siding so they ride...