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The laminated wooden solar canopies are part of the new standard, modular Network Rail station design kit of parts for small- to medium-sized stations, called HUB Station. I think the clock tower part of HUB Station wasn’t used at Cambridge South. Wickford, Portishead, and the new stations in...

It was very unfortunate that they didn’t find any further use, because I really enjoyed them as a passenger. For me, the original Class 321 was the first new train in the early 1990s in my area, on the GEML, which made it more attractive to use than the LTS, pre-Class 357, and the addition of...

The station’s next to the Guided Busway bridge, right? It seems there’s a map/direction totem sign outside the station. So isn’t it just a slight jink to the left with a pedestrian crossing across Francis Crick Avenue, up the path next to the Busway between AstraZeneca’s head-quarters, the...

Can the locomotive not couple either way around to the coaching set, if necessary (one of the driving cabs of the locomotive having a fault, perhaps)? So if the livery on the loco is asymmetrical, then it might not always be the same relative to the coaches. 1788089890 I get what you’re saying...

So for this variant of the GBR livery, the bottom red diagonal stripe extends further up and along each carriage, pushing the “Great British Railways | Chiltern” branding to the other side of each carriage. Also, we can see 4 vehicles, more than half a set, but with the pattern running in the...

How about 8s, and the 4s left over to make them into 12, into twice the number of 2s instead, as they have now with the Class 466s? Then you can make 10s as well as 12s. Or 5s instead? Are they limited to 20-metre-long carriages?

Ah, sorry - I didn’t realise that it was so complicated for Northern! I am mostly interested in seeing if I can catch Classes 323, 333, and 769 before they are gone, from Manchester (Piccadilly) to somewhere, or if I will have to travel more extensively to somewhere else to be able to experience...

Could someone please let me know which classes of rolling stock are used on which of Northern and ScotRail’s routes? Thank you very much.

Is 434 one of the more reliable ones? If so, that would be a shame. Could they replace it with another ex-TfW unit?

Do people think that these new units will have end-unit gang-ways, or not?

Shoeburyness to/from London Fenchurch Street in both directions Shoeburyness to/from London Liverpool Street in both directions Southend Central to/from London Fenchurch Street in both directions, via both routes: Basildon and Grays/Chafford Hundred Southend Victoria to/from London Liverpool...

GWR has the Class 57s for their sleeper trains, no? Also, some TOCs have Class 08, and perhaps other, shunters. We could see other locomotives doing passenger services for GBR and get their livery in the future, too - the Class 57s will have to be replaced by something at some point. The Class...

It’ll be interesting to see a Class 68, the first locomotive, in GBR livery. I suppose that that stock is new to Chiltern, which is a good news story, but I’m a bit surprised that Chiltern is the next TOC to get the livery, given the controversy over East West Rail - I had thought that the Class...

Given that there’s the LT&SR/Essex Thameside/North Thameside which provides an alternative railway route between London and Southend, perhaps rushing it was seen as less necessary.

Will that slack-in-the-fleet-enabled over-haul include installing charging points, being 3-pin-plug sockets and/or USB ports, etc.?

Gosh, the first one is in service already! They’re being built for Old Oak Common services - when will Old Oak Common come into use? All of the trains will be finished years before then, I think?

The RAIB didn’t exist back then - accident investigation and preserving evidence before handover to the infrastructure maintainer has come on a lot since back then. Maximum working times, which are in law across all industries, and minimum breaks didn’t exist back then, either.

Gosh - it must have been quite scary for the train driver going in the opposite direction, driving into a cloud of ballast dust, which obscures whatever might be causing it beyond, and driving into the ballast which was thrown up into the air, hitting their train.

You’d probably hate to know that students at the University of Cambridge are forbidden from having a motor vehicle, unless they can get a licence from the University’s Motor Proctor for exceptional circumstances, those being medical reasons, or rarely being a member of a sports or other society...

The main roads to get to the Biomedical Campus - Trumpington Road (and Trumpington Street, which you can see the end of in the video which I posted, looking down towards the route to the Biomedical Campus, which is the second main road through Cambridge), leading into Long Road, Hills Road...