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Came across a platform working booklet for Edinburgh Waverley for 1987. Intrigued to see that trains used only platforms 1, 7 and 10-19 with one train a week using platform 20, a late Sunday night working to Newcastle. Were the other platforms not in use then or were they used for parcel...

When the 29 and N29 in London convert back to standard double deckers on 26 November the maximum headway between services is 10 minutes - nothing special about that except when you realise that headway is in the middle of the night! During the day its every 4 minutes. Cant be many routes...

DfT have launched its red tape challenge covering the rail industry "Rail passengers and businesses are set to benefit as Rail Minister Theresa Villiers today pledges to crack down on unnecessary red tape. Nearly 200 rail transport regulations have today been placed on the Red Tape...

A number of MPs have made comments on the proposed route which suggest that the section to Leeds will stop at what look like parkway stations at Totton and Meadowhall. Not clear where the station will actually be in Leeds. There has been talk of a parkway station at the junction where HS2 will...

The upgrade work on the above route is anticipated to be complete by 2014. Will this result in all container trains from Felixstowe presently routed via North London Line being rerouted via Nuneaton - and what if any time savings will this provide?

A slight diversion! More interesting is comparing the news items in the Daily Mail and The Times of India http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039667/Indian-train-travels-980km-wrong-direction-rail-staff-noticing.html?ito=feeds-newsxml which includes comments such as "Experts were...

Swansea City were passing through Paddington station this afternoon - playing Arsenal this weekend. I know Man Utd regularly travel by train for London matches and Man City have started doing the same. Do other top flight teams travel by train and do any do so for non-London matches?

Anyone know the largest station car park in the UK and Europe. Birmingham International has 2225 spaces - is there anything larger? thanks

Extract from Local Transport Today "Chiltern Railways has launched a service for business travellers which it believes could lead to the end of first class rail travel in the UK. The Business Zone is modelled on similar products in the aviation industry and is designed to provide the...

Is this story correct http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-14850179 or is there more to it. "Smoke from a fire at a pallet yard in Hertfordshire disrupted train services on a nearby rail line. More than 40 firefighters dealt with the fire at the site in Rye Road...

I'm travelling with 2 children tomorrow from London to Warwick. I have a zone 1-2 annual travelcard and hence a gold card. Is the cheapest option to buy day return London-Banbury with the Gold Card and then a Banbury-Warwick day return?

This EU sponsored study http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_326_en.pdf shows in an European context that our railways score well above average on a wide range of indicators while Germany often scores very badly. Good to see impartial evidence that we are often far better than our...

Apologies if asked before but does anyone know roughly the proportion of no shows on advance tickets. Travelling on Virgin today and at least 10% no shows albeit that people may not be sitting in the seat they reserved and may have reserved a seat with an open ticket

Extract from Railway Gazette First freight on High Speed 1 27 May 2011 UK: Containers being moved from Hams Hall near Birmingham to Novara in Italy formed DB Schenker Rail's first loaded freight service over High Speed 1 during the early hours of May 27. DB Schenker is to undertake five...

Is Manchester Mayfield the biggest disused station which is virtually still intact despite not being used for any purpose. Highgate Station in London albeit much smaller is similar - still there and vacant despite being closed for 50 years plus?

There must be more to this story than what is reported http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/8506898/Award-winning-station-manager-sacked-for-removing-trolley-from-track.html If not then it seems a classic case of the railway shooting itself in the foot

Does anyone know whether people will be subject to security checks when using HS2 as happens on Eurostar, the Spanish AVE and apparently the Chinese high speed rail network? Are you likely to require seat reservations as per TGVs - allowing for walk on passengers when space is available...

Network rail release News Releases: National BIDS INVITED FOR NEW £100M STATION IMPROVEMENT FUND Monday 18 Apr 2011 15:30 "Stations of any size could benefit from a new £100m station improvement fund launched by Network Rail and the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC)...

I was at Northampton today. Approaching the station at around 16.40 the station fire alarm sounded and staff started to evacuate the station. The service to Crewe had just arrived - arr 16.39 and left as booked at 16.45 while people were streaming out of the station. After it left staff...

There has been some debate about HS2 to Manchester but unless I have missed it nothing on the route to Leeds. The government has asked HS2 to look at the options for a station in the East Midlands, South Yorkshire and Leeds. Any views on where it should go in each location? Especially in...