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Well, that's unusual- via the Virgin Trains Lancaster twitter account Virgin, constant horn, the jokes write themselves

Ignoring, for now, the big socio-economic-ethics issue of mass redundancy because of replacing humans with robots, what "driverless" transport are you most willing to use? What you're happy to having around (on the road, in the air etc) is, in some ways, another question.

A warning, picture is not for the squemish

As a follow up to this thread Construction is now starting. First phase is to construct a compound, then to build a temporary alignment for the busy foot and cycle path. The bridge will assembled in the compound and craned into place, apparently using an overnight possession. The...

The branch line from Foxton to the CEMEX quarry at Barrington is being brought back into use

A train carrying Boeing 737 fueslages has derailed, with the planes ending up in a river

I know there's already an existing thread about the EMT special. But I thought it would be useful to have a single thread covering all affected operators Tour De France special plans First Capital Connect Days affected: Monday 7th July Abellio Greater Anglia Days Affected: Monday 7th July...

on Friday, during rush hour (about sixish), I need to get from Liverpool Street to Waterloo. With a wheely bag. I'm happy enough walking, so was thinking of Circle to Embankment or Westminster and then walk. What would you do? Central + Waterloo & City is probably faster, but more crowded and...

(title bias my own) from the Cambridge News The A10 Foxton crossing again. As a pedant, I do take a little exception to the caption As it is a locally controlled full barrier crossing, whilst it is reckless and illegal, as I understand it there should be no chance of a collision with a...

tppbWWkDmQo Video of it running up and down yesterday. Fantastic sight.

So, the Govia presentation to investors has this to say about Moorgate stock (there's already discussions on what to do with the 313s) Presumably this will need a new tender, at which point we may even get to find out the actual size restrictions on stock down that line. There's been claims...

BBC's Richard Westcott just tweeted link to that tweet

Perusing the new Cambridgeshire Long Term Transport Strategy I found this, which I hadn't seen anywhere before: Target is post Ely North Junction works, "by 2021". With half hourly XC, hourly EMT and 2-hourly GA services Ely and Peterborough will be VERY well connected!

... for Cambridge United football fans No details given of times of the extras/which ones will run as 12-car

English version at cycling site road.cc ick!

Going on holiday, flying from Gatwick. Thanks to flight times changing, my travel plans (was going to be FCC all the way, walking across the road between Kings Cross and St Pancras) need to change Outbound: Sunday 30th March. I want to be at the aiport for 1030. There's engineering on south of...

The documents for the next TfL Finance and Policy Committee meeting are available. Of particular interest is this paper on the NTfL- replacement of the rolling stock on the Picadilly, Central, Bakerloo and W&C lines. As BorisWatch on twitter points out, it now looks as if the Bakerloo's stock...

The planning application for the station has been approved, meaning the project can proceed They really do need to sort the access. One of the routes in, they had proposed a 2.5m wide shared foot/cyce pavement. This is narrower than the national recommended minimum (3m) for such paths...

FCC are taking an extra 10% off Super Off Peak tickets on all tickets except those that are entirely within the London Travelcard zones for this month. One result of this is that a Cambridge-London Super Off Peak Day Return route "Any permitted" is (without a railcard) £1 cheaper than the...

This will cheer those on here thaat drive trains through Shepreth branch Junction (just south of Cambridge)- there is a planning application in to replace the foot crossing with a bridge. Whilst a direct link is impossible (due to the trpical terrible local council website) if you search for...