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Well something needs to be done. At present GWR is haemorrhaging traffic via either Warwick Parkway or, indeed, Birmingham. The direct train is not my , nor any of my acquaintances, choice of travelling from Worcester to London either on cost or speed grounds. I suspect that Worcester is a...

Trains to Worcester that are faster than those of April 1910 ....... _____________________ Edit There is just one train in the current timetable that does the journey quicker than the fastest train in 1910 and that is the 13:22 which takes 2:03 hours. The 16:45 train from Paddington in April...

Got to go to a wedding in Warsaw next August and am wondering about doing it by train, stopping in Amsterdam & Berlin each for a day. Any ideas on cost?

With a major warning that is this is from the dreadful Canary, it refers to a amputee who was travelling on a disabled ticket who tried to board a train without his pass and was turned back by Virgin. I agree that Virgin were very heavy handed but they were, in my opinion, absolutely right to...

Telephone poles and wires alongside the track...

Good start to Traintimes.... Worcester - Aberystwyth return ... Error: 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, the requested URL 'http://split.traintimes.org.uk/WOS/AYW/y/09%3A00/18%3A00' caused an error: I think it needs a LOT more work done before it is released to the world.

They have. I have had reassurance from one of my councillors about that.

It would be nice if they could finish the job on the Cotswold Line. The two long stretches that remain between Worcester and Oxford are major bottlenecks. Since the redoubling there has been little improvement in either reliability or speed. Just for comparison, the 16:45 train from Paddington...

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/12905675.The_great_rail_rip_off__Worcester_commuters_hit_out_at_price_hike/

And the exodus of Worcester and surroundings people to Warwick Parkway will continue to grow ....

Or rather not .... :D

Anybody know what is happening in the New Street area this morning? I have a disabled friend stuck at University who has been told that there are no trains back to Worcester for "the rest of the day".

As an ex-smoker ( albeit from a long time ago now) I do not under any circumstances or form be subjected to nicotine if it is at all possible. It IS an addictive compound and although I recognise that e-cigs are probably safer that traditional tobacco products, I normally don't want them to be...

I was well aware of all of that. It was just that I didn't want to be the ******* who stopped a thoroughly disabled (at a guess both physical and mental) person from having, what I suspect, is one of his few pleasures.

Was on a XCountry train yesterday between Brum and Wakefield. Sitting opposite was a chap who was holding an e-cigarette from which he took an occasional puff. Now, obviously I am well aware that all smoking is banned on trains but here is the catch: it was patently obvious that the gentleman...

What is especially interesting in that article are the last two paragraphs which seem to confirm what the Telegraph reported a couple of years or so back:

So what on earth is the point of having a contingency plan if you are unable to implement it? The whole point of that contingency plan is that is it to be used if things go wrong. You must resource it otherwise it is pointless.

Which indeed is at the nub of the problem. It was the lack of contingency planning by GN that caused the grief. This meant they ended up throwing together, at very short notice, a series of botched plans that backfired spectacularly.

I would have thought that someone shoves a rocket up EMT's arse and get them to help out as much as they can.