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One thing that puzzles me, and I hope that someone will tell me, is how the Shrewsbury bound train managed to end up on the single line. At Talerddig there is a run-off siding that runs for about 200 or so metres parallel to the main line towards Shrewsbury and I would have thought that the...

As someone with a disabled railcard, which is valid for all times and trains, all I can say is thank you for that suggestion. :{

There has been much discussion about the renationalisation of the railways by letting the current contracts expire ( there is a thread here) but I have yet to see anything about what will happen to the rail leasing companies and what will happen to them. Anyone got any ideas? Or have I missed...

I really don't mind the names at all since they reflect a lot of the culture and heritage of London but, as a non-Londoner, it is the breaking of the geographical link with the line that will confuse me. Lea Valley, Watford etc all give an idea as to where you will be going (remember we are...

Thank you to you both for you replies. I was just a tad surprised to see it !

I was waiting at Worcestershire Parkway to collect a friend from Birmingham when the 1427 ex Plymouth to Edinburgh made an unscheduled stop at about 1758. This was obviously to pick up the swarm of passengers that were waiting, probably due to the cancellation of the 1713 to Nottingham...

During the planning and approval stages for Parkway, I specifically mentioned to my county councillor that they ought to leave room for expansion and he assured me that that was on the plans.

Just been announced that a project to build 10,000 new town around Parkway has moved a step forwards. Initially 5,000 in the next 15 or so years with the remainder later. This is the Worcester News report...

On a FB forum I was informed that the army, specifically the Infantry Junior Leaders (IJL), organised special trains to run from Oswestry over the Gobowen branch and onwards in 1974. Now the line closed to passengers in 1966 with only the quarry trains using the line. The dates could be right...

Nice to see that Gobowen has been awarded a £246,000 grant to allow much needed repairs to be undertaken. I have always found that the station's Italianate design to be both attractive and unusual...

36k? Is that for both running tracks? The distance from Bromsgrove to Abbotswood is 13 miles 15 chains ( whatever that is - I just let google convert) which converts to just under 22k.

Probably no need for sidings or crossovers at Parkway. A few hundred metres beyond is the Abbotswood loop and a crossover where the Worcester line joins. 1694352748 Depends whose figures you are using. GWEP then exorbitant but more recent figures look at somewhere between 1-2.5 million per...

To be fair: it is a parkway so I would expect a fair amount of extra road traffic. What is bad is the poor public transport from WOP to both Pershore and Worcester, plus the dangerous Church Road/Woodbury Lane cycling route which is a death trap with the bridge over the railway by Norton...

AlbertBeale The South Worcestershire development plan calls for just that. At the moment WOP ( an ugly station code ) is seen as been of strategic importance with anything up to 5,000 new homes being built around it in the next 10 years or so and many more after that. In essence we are...

I will be interested to see whether the closure of the Cotswold line earlier this year will significantly affect the 2023-24 figures.

Enormous pressure is being put on X Country to make more services stop at WOP - at a political level. Whether it works ( the pressure ) remains to be seen. This is a press report from the Worcester News describing the political pressure being applied...

I have to say that I am pleased that it is being patronised to an extent that wasn't anticipated for a few years. Maybe its success might convince X-Country to stop its really long distance trains there. This is from Worcestershire County Council who had a celebration at the station...

In this week's episode of "Secrets of the Motorways" over at the excellent Auto Shenanigan's YouTube channel, the Bishopton Tunnels, just off the M8, are mentioned. The presenter wondered why there is a large chunk of deep cutting between the two tunnels. He wondered why it was built like...

A couple of days ago I, along with a couple of friends, from Caersws to Pwllheli and, to save time, I ordered on-line from TfW. The ticket details were: Three tickets from Caersws to Pwllheli. 2 disabled, 1 adults Price ( correct ) came to £53.80 I attempted to install the tickets into...

I see that the railways have guards back on trains...