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To continue a discussion from this thread, and answering a point What was being suggested is cutting the stations north of the Watford Triangle junction off. South of this junction the Met is four-track to Harrow on the Hill, with Chiltern trains sharing the fast/main lines whilst stopping Met...

Interesting new French double decker units The trains have long double decker cars- the intermediate ones without external doors- and shorter single decker cars with the power equipment and doors on them

In the entry for Corrour: Any quite as badly wrong as this?

(separate thread to stop discussions about the SBP getting too confused) There's some interesting stuff in the Anglia plan, available here. One bit that caught my attention relates to the Lea Valley. Whilst the plan is for a third track with a turnback platform at an an unspecified locations...

spotted on the GA Twitter feed So that's a 153 substituting for 90/mark3 set. Entertaining. Mindyou, I thouh the Great Eastern sets were 8 or 9 carriages- are they counting the DVT in that "10"?

It seems a somewhat drunken Kim Wilde was on an FCC GN service home the other night after a christmas party; decided to entertain the carriage. enjoy! (No, she's not in tune. It's still good)

the updated "London Rail and Tube services map" (with the Overground changes) now shows the additional Oyster PAYG validity. I'm a bit surprised- I'd been led to believe all the additional stations would be in Watford/Greys style "special" zones, but Theobalds Grove and Waltham Cross join Zone 7...

Japanese firm proposes a new light rail system using Roller Coaster technology Summary: The idea is that even a small hill and a shallow gradient can allow trains to coast suprisingly long distances. With no traction equipment the cars can be lightweight and the track can be very low-profile...

seems to be a rash of signalling problems today- big disruption at Gidea Park and Southall, but also some disruption at Thetford, Sanderstead, Stourbridge Junction and Edinburgh Park. Mere coincidence? Moisure got into electronics that has then frozen?

Shouldn't FGW be prosecuting this moron? Yes, he has posted a full picture of his PF notice, complete with his home address on a public site and then boasted that he'd bought the child's ticket because he's a "#cheapscate" and "#notpaying".

Slightly oversized load here!

Commuter revolt!

he's somewhat brusque (not my video) (yes, promotional because there's a new series starting this weekend) VP6-E617Pb4

two guys walking along the line across Rannoch Moor have been hit by a train. One of them must have been in a fairly serious condition not to have gone straight to Glasgow by helicopter. I am though quite amused by the photo used to illustrate it Assuming that's not a railtour, anyone care...

Seems the wires came down at Northumberland Park (on the West Anglia/Lee Valley line) this morning- they were down there on Monday too. Pretty sure this IS a recently rewired stretch? Certainly doesn't have the GE issues of being ancient kit. there's a histrionic report from the Cambridge News...

There's a story in the Cambridge News (no need for a link- there's nothing new in it!) again about the possibility of the fast Peterborough/Cambridge/Kings Lynn services eventually being operated by 5-car IEP trains, as mentioned in the DfT press release last week. There's some bits I've been...

is there any way to do this cheaply without taking a ridiculous amount of time? Travelling down this coming Friday evening- earliest train from Cambridge I can sensibly hope to catch is the 1815 Return on the Sunday after 1600. Network Railcard Anything under £40?

quick question. If a late running inbound train just misses your connection, and the next train is not for two hours, that does count as a two hour delay for compensation purposes, yes? late runner was an FGW High speed into Swansea. onward journey to Pembroke.

I've seen technical details of what is happening to the fleet, but no timetable for it? Are the ex-460s already being worked on? Presumably no current 458s will be taken out of service until the ex-460s are done- or at the very least, a pair is available. Ideally several pairs, to allow the...

Problem from a colleague. He was caught without a ticket, having boarded at a station where the machine was only taking cards and he only had cash on him (or possibly the other way round- that detail matters little). The gateline staff at his destination would not believe him. He tried to...