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It would be cool to see a heritage railway run at higher speeds, but then a fair few steam locos are also run at high speed on the national network itself. The A1 Tornado built in 2008 has reached 102mph on the ECML and has been previously cleared to run at 90mph on revenue services. Pretty...

London is significantly bigger than the others, but yes, I would like to see diesel operations scaled back significantly in Birmingham and Manchester too - starting with XC.

That was my reaction too to this! Pretty impressive scope. If we go for the "upgrade the existing routes approach", quad tracking will be necessary. Looks like they are using this opportunity for fairly significant improvements to speed? Excited to see what impact this, along with the...

I strongly agree with the sentiment of preserving 'walk up' fares as much as possible. I worry this is getting eroded with booking apps getting people accustomed to booking specific trains, even when buying open returns. Our rail system should be moving towards being able to turn up without...

I'm going to be biased by my own experiences, while I don't think this is going to be anything record breaking, I certainly think eyebrows will raise when they see the UK economy move into recession over winter 23 and spring 24. All I see around me is redundancies, recruiters I talk to say that...

ERG (Eurosceptic Tory faction) seem to be publicly speaking out against Sunak. Will be interesting to see how this week goes. Usually they pipe down once the reality of their electoral prospects once again becomes clear, but we'll see! It seems like the Rwanda policy, far from being the...

Whilst the government seems to believe accepting a reduction in reliability won't impact safety, eventually if you pull out all the sticks, the kaplunk will fall... It's hard to imagine in a system such as a railway, where everything is safety critical, cutting back on these things will...

Rail minister saying this is part of the network north plan is embarrassing. At least TRU may be getting some funding from that pot of money.

Yeah, given my experience of the police processing CCTV evidence, it's not the best. I genuinely think you could probably get away without ever paying a fine simply ignoring/walking away from them.

I'm not entirely convinced it will work, although my ticket is checked once every couple of journeys I find (sometimes multiple times on the same one). People can still just walk away from the inspectors and avoid giving details, seemingly without consequences though. Trams are struggling, but...

Looks like there was a failed tram yesterday (6th December) between Meadows Way West and University Boulevard blocking service. Looks like there was some other technical failure causing similar issues between Wilkinson St and David Lane today (7th December)

Trains are incredibly overcrowded, moved closer to the door at York. Bathrooms filled with standing passengers. People are moving down Aisles. Luggage blocking Aisles and doors, due to no space. My train is struggling to leave York presently, potentially as a result of extreme overcrowding.

Train currently stopped at curve near Newton Aycliffe. Cant is very steep here!

First southbound train left Newcastle around 12:30. Now running along the 'normal' line rather than the coast. We seem to be going at Normal speed, although haven't reached Darlington yet.

I'm on a train that is apparently diverting via the coast. People standing at ends of carriages, although there is a limited selection of seats still available. Still not left Newcastle yet.

At Newcastle? I'm on the 11:30 - no mention of buses on here though...

Hey, Currently sat on an LNER train (11:30 from Newcastle to Kings Cross) and it's not leaving due to signalling failure between Newcastle and Durham. Looks like no trains are going at all and there has been a raft of cancellations. Anyone who knows more, I'd be very happy for your...

Risk aversion is good when it comes to avoiding incidents like Stonehaven from happening again. That's no good for anyone. I understand when the network has to close sections of track for repair, or reduce speeds due to flooding (essentially proceed at caution), but outright telling people not...

I'm travelling from Nottingham to Newcastle today (via Newark). LNER advised not to travel, but I've already got annual leave and my Sunday return ticket is out of the timescale to be able to push back... It's definitely not a necessary journey, but I can't cancel my plans every time it's a bit...

Burn in on older OLED models are brutal, newer units are certainly better, but new tech = higher cost too! With a static interface displaying all day, burn in risk is very very high, so OLED isn't too great. LCD may also succumb to burn in eventually in those conditions.