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The latest issue of Rail Magazine has given the rough withdrawal dates for the Class 91s from LNER. Approx. 25% are due to be withdrawn between June & September this year, with the remaining locos due to leave the ECML between January 2020 & Summer 2020 (approx.); it's fairly reasonable to...

Evening all! Trying to book a Sleeper service from Crewe to Stirling on the 17th of August, but nothing appears to be coming up on the CS website for that journey on that date. Would this be due to the work going on at Euston for HS2?

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #16 originally in this thread. A friend of mine sent me this picture the other day - turns out the marketing team have got to the new TPE fleets. The 802s are due to become "Nova 1s", the 397s "Nova 2s" and the Mk5As "Nova 3s"; maybe this ties in quite nicely with the TPE...

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but given that electrification is now in operation as far as Didcot Parkway and is due to reach Wales by the end of the year, would anyone say there is potential to convert some freight services over to electric traction? I've got a few ideas for some...

Morning all. RAIL/LIAR (pick your preferred name) have revealed that 50% of King's Cross is to be closed for 2 months while the approaches into the station are renewed. All track, sub-systems and OLE are to be replaced (up to 1.5 miles from the buffers), while many existing crossovers at the...

Evening all. I was trying to book a ticket from Tisbury to Wimbledon on the new SWR website for tomorrow evening (leaving about 5pm/6pm) but it wouldn't show any entries except for early morning/late evening; clicking on the train I wanted thence advised me to contact the Telesales team. Is...

So, with the upcoming franchise change for the West Midlands, I was wondering how the new service plans would be incorporated into the existing timetable. Here's a few wild guesses I'm making about potential pathing: Coventry-Leamington Shuttle Service (due to start in Feb 2018): presumably an...

Hi all, I was taking a train into Waterloo the other day and I saw on the side of a Class 450 (on the dot-matrix display) the destination (Weybridge) and the SR 2-digit headcode (16, IIRC). Have SWT started putting the traditional headcode routing numbers on the displays as standard practice, or...

Hi all! I bought a legacy Prime Lens (a Canon FD with f/1.8) a year or so ago, and obviously had to get an adapter for it (as it didn't fit my EOS 1200D). It gets the lighting right, but I always seem to get a softer focus on it than I would like, even on f/1.8! Does anyone know what I should...

Hi all! Thinking of taking a week's holiday in Europe; either Germany or Austria. I'm probably going to get an interrailing ticket for the country in question, and I want to find out a little bit more about the best backdrops for a shot, the opportunities for loco-haulage, and how cheap...

http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/sandwell-sidings-to-become-sleeper-factory Saw this earlier while trying to trawl through various websites for dissertation research; any thoughts? Could be NR eyeing a potential replacement site for sleeper production, what with Washwood Heath...

Hi all, I was looking at the Cross-City line earlier today, and wondered why some of the existing tracks south of Longbridge aren't as heavily utilised as others. Take for example the Up Gloucester Slow (UGS); it runs all the way from Barnt Green, parallel to the Up Glos. Fast (UGF) and...

Mod note: split from Scotrail HST Refurbishment Plans Well, the original names could well make a comeback! Here's all the "Scottish" names carried by the 47/7s (the push-pull lot, not the RES lot): 701: "Waverley" 701: "Saint Andrew" 702: "Saint Cuthbert" 703: "Saint Mungo" 704: "Dunedin" 705...

Just a fun thread for the purpose of our own amusement. Ever wanted to photoshop an American/Japanese/European train into a British livery? Well, this is the thread for it. To start it off, here's one I made earlier; an ÖBB Railjet in InterCity Swallow (as applied to the 91s and Mk4s). Enjoy!

Evening all. Would anybody happen to know how much grade-separated junctions, such as Weaver, Cogload and Worting, cost to construct when they were built? I'm planning a scenario as part of my university degree to design a new railway junction. This junction plans to have 14tph service across...

Hi all! Virgin have said that, early tomorrow morning (13th) that both VTWC and VTEC are unveiling their Christmas trains at King's Cross. Unfortunately, I have no idea AT ALL when they are due to arrive (mods feel free to put this in the allocations, diagrams and timetables thread). Anyone know?

Hi all, very stressed student here! For my final year report, I'm trying to remodel the tracks outside New Street, specifically Proof House Junction. For my Critical Literature Review, I need to suggest why, in recent years, Proof House has been the cause of so many delays in the West Midlands...

Heads up: CrossCountry are hiring VTEC's 43319 today for a brief undetermined period. It's on today's 1V60 and 1S53.

Hi all, I was wondering if it would be at all possible for members to add their own photos into the Forum's pool of photos to go at the top of the page? I have quite a few I'd like to contribute, and would be over the moon if one of them ended up being featured!

Hi all, As part of my final year research project at uni, I'm trying to find out the history of railways in the Midlands, specifically around Birmingham. Does anyone know when Soho LMD was first built, and when it was expanded for the arrival of the 323s? Does anyone also happen to know where...