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I don't usually wander in here, but this may be the most insane add on for any rail simulator. The flying HST is not a glitch...

There's a lot of talk of the Pacers being over their projected design life. But what was the projected design life for other stock? For example, the first batch of 317s (the "/1"s in service with FCC and /5, /7 and /8 with NXEA- all originally /1) are now 30 years old (introduced 81/82). The...

How many different formations do NXEA currently have in their mark 3 fleet? There's a poster at Ipswich displaying the formations of rush hour trains to London (not just mark 3 ones- all trains). The poster appeared to have three formations: 8 carriage, with two first class 9 carriage, with...

National Rail suggests that travel via Ely is valid (suggesting in the hours opposite the Cambridge-Ipswich service, to meet the Peterborough - Ipswich service. Is this true? Do the guards know this? Is it worth while just paying the extra 50p and get an Anglia Plus rather than an Off-Peak...

East Coast have just sent me an email saying bookings are open for up to the 3rd january- they actually appear to be open beyond then- but it seems that currently Advance fares stop at 31st December. Anyone know when Advance fares are likley to go on sale for the start of January? I'd rather...

Edinburgh Evening News link. So, the political games coninue. What a farce.

wifi coming to all TfL buses by the Olympics. That's, um, ambitious.

headline pretty much says it all

Progress! BAM Nuttall have finally handed the infrastructure over to the council officially! From the council website: The last bit is bit cheeky- there's a low likelihood of Nuttall actually fixing defects; I think the council already have a contractor lined up to fix most of the worst ones-...

the generally reliable "Railway Eye blog has news this morning of pre-qualifiers for West Coast and Greater Anglia. for West Coast For Greater Anglia for those that don't follow such things, Abellio is a Nederlandse Spoorwegen subsidiary, and Keolis is mainly owned by SNCF.

The ORR have killed Grand Central's Blackpool/Westcoast plan for being abstractive. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Notice that they've also killed Alliance Rail's plans as well- the end for Open Access?

Saw this, thought there might be a few on here interested. "Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs, Showing All The Proposed Metropolitan Railways and Improvements." It's a map from 1864, viewable in high resolution, with a lot of detail with regards the railways that existed and the...

Front page of the print edition of Cambridge News today was this. I think, frankly, the key quote is here: Right. So no-one's so far been interested... funny that, with Stansted just down the road/line.

sitting in the sidings opposite platform 1&4 today, about 11ish. What was that doing all that way north?

By my rough maths, using the table here, Stratford in east London has, including Underground and DLR services, 107 trains per hour departing off-peak (including set-down only). That seems to me to be quite high- is there anywhere in the UK (it'll probably be in London) that can beat that for...

NXEA are consulting on changes with the introduction of the Class 379. The "easy" changes: This is all very welcome- but is just "more units means longer trains". The actual changes are in this bit: The extra "fast" off-peak Cambridge-London is interesting- the current "semi-fast"...

Seems the removal of the Bus Lane from the M4 Eastbound between junctions 3 and 2 is going about as well as more enlightened commentators were predicting. That is to say, the removal is precipitating worse delays. There's a superb explanation linked from the article that I'll link to as well...

Normally I would condemn vandalism outright, and to be fair, this does somewhat endanger people, but frankly sometimes you have to give a round of applause: If you can't quite see it (or read german):

Having used the East London Line a couple of times recently, and having picked up grumbles elsewhere, I've got a couple of questions: 1. Reliability- it may just be perception from NRE/Twitter, but the North/West London Line service seems to be suffering poor reliability, whilst I've not heard...

Don't think I've ever seen so much of the network shut at once. Sunday especially. That'll be fun for anyone attending Remebrance services that would have travelled by Underground or Overground. If it was the London Connections map, there'd be a fair bit more lit up, especially south of the...