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"Affordable Very Light Rapid Transit" is a proposal that's been funded by the City Deal (now Greater Cambridge Partnership) as a concept for public transport in and around Cambridge details are here Part 1 Part 2 Roughly speaking, it consists of 40-seater self steering 8 wheel electric buses...

Headed to Whistable for a few days. Planning to do the simple route of Cambridge-Kings Cross (walk) St Pancras - Whistable (high speed). Travelling after 10am on weekdays in both directions with a Network Rail Card. Any saving (on this route) on £31.90 Off Peak Return? (planned itinerary on...

based on this post in the 387 fleet the Class 365s, all 40, may be spare in the next three years. Where might they go? Could they be fitted with new 3rd rail shoes? the first 16 worked as 3rd rail units when new; the rest presumably could be converted anyway? They would seem to have a...

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I mean, really, this should be obvious, yes? To be clear: this would be just as unacceptable and I'd expect the company to take the same action if they'd posted the opposite message I'm guessing this may lead to a tightening up of SWT's rules on the messages. Which is shame, but as ever it...

Taking the discussion from here How would you split and name the various services of the Overground & DLR? TfL define the following Overground Services: Richmond and Clapham Junction to Stratford - the WLL & NLL Gospel Oak to Barking - aka GOBLIN Watford Junction to Euston - the...

Seems there's been a distinct lack of volunteers to work this Sunday on Great Northern. Skeleton service --- old post above --- --- new post below --- full timetable is here

Canadian Pacific have a decorated freight train, touring their network. One of the wagons is a stage, with performances at stops. I'll skip the article quote; it's the pictures you need!

From here Good to see continued investment in this unusual line and fascinating to see that it's getting ETCS Level 2+ compliant signalling!

The Crossrail twitter account has posted pictures of the concrete slab pouring train in action Wasn't sure if this was of Infrastructure interest or Rolling Stock!

buried in a consultation for changes to the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions is the nugget that in the 2014/15 reporting year there were over 1600 instances of road vehicles hitting rail over-bridges. That's an average of more than four a day- this seems quite a lot...

Right now, Canning Town is a bit of a mess. Trains to either eastern branch can depart from platforms 1 or 3, the connection between these being below the Jubilee line. Ideally, all eastbound trains would use an island, whilst all west/north bound would use another. So, ignoring any...

Quite an odd one this Horrible vandalism yes, but the workmanship and planning has to be grudgingly admired, that's quite a job that.

Abellio Great Anglia are trialling a new ticketing system using smartphones on the Cambridge-Liverpool Street route. They're currently recruiting 100 participants to trial it. I tried (in accordance with forum rules)to post their summary of how it works here but it won't let me select any text...

With current rolling stock replacement plans by 2018 there will be 27 Class 317 and 13 class 321 displaced by the Thameslink and London Overground (West Anglia) projects, with no clear (as far as I've seen) plan for where these will go. I don't see Greater Anglia (or their successor) wanting...

splitting off from the thread on "Cambridge North" Quick summary of what's being done: The entire area outside the station is being redeveloped with hotels, offices, flats and a massive new multistory cycle park (that won't be big enough). The retail space in the new developments will allow...

Buried in this (not recreating it all, as it's huge) is this little paragraph At yesterday's "20s Plenty" conference in Cambridge TfLs Ben Jonhson expanded a little on this, saying that the intention is to fit ISA to buses to help enforce the 20mph limit (among other objectives). It's an...

Trains outside London are 'cast-offs' MPs say Is there an election soon? Ahem. Struggling, prior to the cascade of the 319s, to think of "cast offs" that "not London" has been sent. The Pacers and Sprinters were built for Regional Railways, the 323s have worked their original routes all...

How long can these last? As far as I know the four Class 365s with advertising liveries got them during WAGN's tenure. That franchise finished over a decade ago. Any that have had a set of vinyls longer?

Grand Central are to heavily refurbish their 180 fleet, gain the 180s currently at First Great Western and get rid of their HST fleet from 2017 They're also investing in station improvements