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In more than 10 years of regular use of Liverpool Lime Street I have not seen electric usage of platforms 1 to 4 nor of the slow/northerly/Huyton-bound lines to/from Edge Hill.

There are truly dreadful automated announcements, in English only, along the Conwy Valley. They include "Pont why pant" , an incomprehensible mangling of Betws-y-Coed and announce the platform number at Dolwyddelan. There was a lengthy thread here about this 18 months(?) ago.

I commuted from East Didsbury to Liverpool from 2001 - 2011 and from Levenshulme to Liverpool since though, because of the nature of my job, not every day and not to a tight schedule. I take what I assume are the standard commuter steps and reading, podcasts, music &c. to occupy the time and I...

Passing Parkside Junction this morning I noticed what looks like a contractors compound being set up immediately south and east of the M6 bridge; is this Balfour Beatty starting work?

I have some questions about the project to restore some of the four-tracking in the Roby/Huyton area. It seems from earlier posts in this thread that any new four-track section with be quite short - a matter of 2 - 3 miles. In general terms, what is the shortest piece of four-track which is...

My wife and I recently travelled by train from Milton Keynes to Pescara on Italy's Adriatic coast and back using option 2 "by morning Eurostar & daytime high-speed trains with overnight stop in Turin or Milan" from seat61.com and similar in reverse with an overnight stop in Paris. This part of...

From an earlier, now closed, thread: "I hear Northern Rail have purchased the Allerton TMD site, in preparation for the electrification of lines in area west. Anyone got more on this ?" Passing by today, I noticed that vegetation was being removed from around the tracks furthest from the...

The longest sequence of successive Network Rail stations in alphabetical order regularly called at by a passenger train is Burnage, East Didsbury, Gatley, Heald Green, Manchester Airport, Styal and Wilmslow (more precisely, I think it is!)

Does anyone here have up-to-date information about whether Ireland's Golden Trekker Scheme will be re-introduced in 2011? Given Ireland's financial problems, this does seem monumentally unlikely but I cannot find a definitive staement.

I am no civil engineer but it looks to me to be a very tricky situation. The new chord needs to cross a dual carriageway (Trinity Way) at a very acute angle and, almost immediately, the River Irwell while avoiding the Grade 1 listed Liverpool Road Station buildings, added to which, as an...

Some interesting stuff on Middlewood station and the curve mentioned in earlier posts here

It says here that "• Building a brand new section of railway at Ordsall, in Salford. This will mean that: - Trains between Manchester Airport and Leeds, Newcastle, Bradford, Rochdale and elsewhere across the North will not need to reverse at Manchester Piccadilly - Trains will be able...

For me, the puzzle raised in my earlier post is that I am an ordinary* member of the travelling public having no connection with any part of the railway industry. Nevertheless I am regularly asked, by strangers on station platforms, about destinations, calling points, length of journey, ... ...

My anecdotes are not so much stupid as puzzling. Some years ago while standing on Reading station, as an ordinary passenger, with no geeky notebook nor looking in the least like railway staff, I was asked by another passenger "Is this the train for Oxford?". I was tempted to reply (but...

Last century when I was a teenager I train-spotted at New Mills South Junction whenever I could and saw a procession of freight trains and the odd passenger train. Looking across the valley, it was the same on the Stockport-Buxton line. For the most part, the frequency, speed and convenience...

I have used Dolwyddelan regularly for about 6 years and have never had a problem getting on or off - it is unusual for me to be the only passenger and casual observation suggests that most trains stop here so it is quite heavily used for a request stop. On the other hand, it is very unusual to...

According to the National Rail website and my son who is a passenger on a Virgin Train stranded at Nuneaton, there is an "incident" (a fire?) at Rugby station and all Virgin trains to and from Euston are suspended. Does anyone have any more information? My son is travelling from Stockport to...