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Back in First Scotrail days I was the Passenger Watch eyes & ears on the Sunday night Up Lowlander out of Edinburgh every week. Just one significant delay of more than 15-20 minutes - trackside fatality in Cumbria added 3h to the journey - and several early wake up calls passing through Watford...

Insightful piece of analysis - thanks @Nottingham59 and @RailAleFan both - the item that caught my eye was only one major airport and i wonder if Gatwick was a candidate with around 0.37 P-Km/d ? helpful links to the ORR data on the Flow data source site; answered my first question of does...

Back in First Scotrail days the plush GNER first class lounge upstairs with view East over the tracks to London, was always closed in the hour or so before the Sleeper and the "sleeper lounge" was a glorified waiting room near then Platform 14 of Glasgow Queen St shuttle fame. The "Hebrides" bar...

Lorne sausage roll and nice coffee with window seat view of Argyle Street world going by. https://centralcafeglasgow.com/ Checked out just a few weeks back.

Exactly my preference back in first Scotrail days, better "bushy tailed" appearance in London morning meetings than colleagues flying from the Central Belt. As also said by the first First Minister, the late Donald Dewar.

When I joined at Preston for a sleeper cabin to Pitlochry several years back, it was a routine Police presence on the platforms given the distinct "small hours" clientele out on the surrounding streets.

As a weekly sleeper traveller back in BR and First Scotrail days I echo the above comments about (a) Edinburgh Waverley station likely closed to prevent your boarding and (b) your reservation being a no show, open for walk up resale at Stirling. Enjoy a relaxing wait in the historic Royal city.

Back in the day a resident of Riccarton Junction would have had a rosy view of the railway service with its connections to 3 regional cities of Carlisle, Newcastle and Edinburgh. (all just walking trails when I last stopped by) They would however have benefited in applying for a national Chair...

Female passenger stuck in toilet by a door release fault that Guard apparently unable to release for ages. On arrival at next station Prestatyn, no carriage doors would open and SOS button failed to open doors either, train continued to Flint where passengers eventually got off. They all then...

Cancellation code RB used today on a service that had earlier affected us as a family. While being supportive of transparency in root causes for unexpected events - why is higher than expected passenger numbers (my wording) a reason to cancel a train? I would have expected platform access...

Awaiting the first Tunstead stone train to pass through New Mills Central this evening, a nice surprise of 37 685 "Loch Arkaig" in West Coast livery - brought back nice memories of bothy walking trips on the West Highland line and sleepers 37 hauled. and while I missed 6L10 at the station...

All this talk of request buttons above is much more advanced than Heart of Wales line was for me growing up - it was "stick your arm out" once you saw the train approaching. Indeed the TfW website currently says in its faq pages "I need to get on at a request stop As the train approaches the...

and ... I wonder if there is a challenge of printing another TOC's service times when you can't warrant that the information is correct? Centralised timetables from National Rail makes more sense.

Slightly off topic but I recall an Acronyms dictionary when I started work in the 80s listing: TOPS - Total Operations Processing System and its fallback BOTTOMS - Back Onto The Trusted Old Manual System presumable the pre-TOPS way of keeping track of rolling stock was really complicated?

There appears to be a Network Rail announcement that 6 July to 25 August are the closure dates - seen on Facebook locally - at least we can now plan future journeys. https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/passengers-warned-of-seven-week-railway-closure-in-new-mills-for-emergency-earth-work

Real time trains suggests the inbound Empty Carriage Stock movement was affected by issue with train crew https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:BHM/2024-06-08/0200-0159?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt&toc=VT

I was introduced to the Sleeper back in BR days with late 70s family holiday trips by Motorail from Crewe to Inverness, and one from Inverness to Brockenhurst near Southampton. As a family of five - my two sisters and my parents each got a connecting pair of 2nd class cabins to share while I...

Yes, over 2 inches of rain in past 24h at nearby Floodline rain gauge on River Sett that feeds the river at Hague Bar ... although river levels did not reach Flood Warning level overnight.

Poole does feel very busy (I visit every few months on weekdays in shopping hours) and it shows up with these stats at https://www.railwaydata.co.uk/linefiles/route/?ELR=BML2

Found this elsewhere online - https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/171575-liquified-natural-gas-by-rail/