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There’s a number of threads that are getting disrupted by how (apparently) hard done by the north of England is. This means that discussions about Crossrail operations/ Scotrail franchise requirements/ the future for 313s/ LO taking over some “West Anglia” lines/ the quality of stock in the...

Back in the day, Town Service seemed a regular sight on destination screens. The same bus turning up at the civic bus station every half hour for most of the day, with the destination blind unchanged. Maybe this was because, in a day before easily programmable electronic destination screens...

Simple question - which section of line (defined as between two particular stations, to avoid argument) has had the most closures/ disruption since the railways were privatised? Either in terms of individual closures (e.g. there's regular flooding at Rotherham Central because of the way the...

http://www.sypte.co.uk/media.aspx?id=3788 Given the budget cuts imposed upon South Yorkshire PTE, it looks like the cuts are going to fall on: Pensioners/ Disabled (may now have to wait until 09:30 for their free travel, which is when most of England's councils start, plus may lose free...

I'm not using trains this week, but (judging by local buses in Sheffield) it looks like there are no Metros being published this week (?) If this is the case, has anyone noticed whether trains are any tidier/ cleaner than normal?

Rather than divert another thread off topic, I thought this worthy of its own subject: Which stations are there on busy main lines which don't get sufficient trains stopping at them (because it'd be too much disruption to longer distance/ faster services)? Five off the top of my head...

We know there's going to be growth on railways in the future (hence HS2, hence longer IEPs replacing HSTs, hence sorting out bottlenecks around the UK, hence longer EMUs replacing DMUs etc). But when did the railways start to take assume that future passenger numbers would be higher than they...

A hypothetical/ fantasy thread, I suppose. Which is the best livery that each of the following had? (if you could only preserve one of each/ only had one of each on your model railway/ had to pick the main Wikepedia image for the relevant type of train) 08/09 31 37 47 50 55 66 86 90...

(silly, serious, speculative) Prediction Number One: There will be more Pacers in daily operation on Network Rail lines in January 2020 than HST sets in daily operation on Network Rail lines in January 2020

A couple of years ago we had a "myths" thread ((Pacers can't run on Third Rail" etc). Since then, railways have evolved, so what about a 2013 version? 1. Class 350/4s are the long term plan for the TPE services to Glasgow/ Edinburgh

Rather than derail another thread further, I thought I'd set up a specific one to try to determine what people think InterCity (or INTERCITY/ Inter-City/ Inter City/ Intercity etc) meant in 2013. There's been a lot of debate about whether certain services qualify for this "gold standard"...

May just be speculation, I appreciate, but I thought that potential cuts to the NRM justified a thread: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchesters-museum-science-industry-faces-4044896#.UazlsXvKvRc.twitter

In the HS2 mega-thread there was a reference to David Cameron trying to promote HS2. My immediate thought was that UKIP would automatically be against this (given their dislike of many "green" / "modern" things like wind farms), and that they may use HS2 as something to distance themselves...

Which lines/ services have had the biggest upgrade in terms of passenger environment since privatisation? I'm not talking about frequency improvements or longer trains or younger trains, I'm talking about "standard class only" services that have seen First Class introduced, services with no...

Inspired by the following quote from 455driver and the BR/ Beeching thread (that has allegations about managers deliberately timing services so that they didn't connect) are there any examples (new or old) where it looks like the railway has scheduled services not to connect with each other...

As the title asks, should we introduce any new DMU services over the remainder of the decade? If we are serious about DDA compliance (converting around a thousand "Sprinter" coaches is going to mean a lot of units out of service to bring them up to standard before 2020) and withdrawing the...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237772/How-costs-train-companies-carry-passengers-results-surprise-you.html An interesting but frustrating article in everyone's favourite newspaper: Some things are fairly obvious (like the cost to each passenger of the driver/ guard being cheaper...

An interesting article in today's Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/oct/26/east-coast-grand-central-which-better They generally compare two brands/ shops/ companies on a Friday, so you'll get something like Homebase vs B&Q or iTunes vs Blinkbox - this week it is train companies...

Given the debate about future franchise shapes (should there be more integrated ones to beef up some smaller operations? Could a stand-alone Sleeper franchise work?), what have been the smallest franchises (in terms of numbers of trains) over the past fifteen years? I guess that the smallest...

The WCML bid seems to have changed some people's opinions about Virgin/ Richard Branson, which got me thinking about things I've changed my mind about over the years: HS2. I used to be against it (I'm not a huge fan of our obsession on "high speed"), but became a reluctant convert (given the...