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Midland Main Line on the whole is good but have to say that mobile coverage on the Berks and Hants between Cogload and Newbury is rubbish.

Posting on behalf of a relation. Relation leaving London at approx 3.30 AM on overnight train to Bedford and tapping in on Keycard. This train is all stations and (very) slow Keycard has started tapping them out, guessing (correctly) the tap out station about 20 minutes to an hour before...

If you have a season ticket on a Thsmeslink/GTR Keycard the rules say sternly that you must touch in and out every time or they will penalty fare you. 1) If the line is shut from Bedford to West Hampstead for engineeding works as it is tomorrow and you have to get a bus firstly to Luton, then...

A holiday. In the UK, but a UK where trains and buses are fully integrated. Turned up at Belfast Bus station to get a bus to Armagh. First surprise. Its also the main railway station. Second surprise, you have to buy your ticket from the ticket office, not the bus driver. Third Surprise. On...

So. Buy ticket online for offspring for next week. Walk with dog to station. Insert card. Enter code. (email didn't come through but screenshotted the code when I bought it) Wait.... Wait..... "cannot get TOD information seek assistance at ticket office (its closed) Man next tp me gets the...

I am trying to help someone who needs a season ticket from St Albans to London Waterloo East. The journey is via Thameslink to London Bridge then Southeastern to Waterloo East. However while London Bridge and Blackfriars are covered by "London Thameslink", Waterloo East isn't and the only...

BBC are reporting four options to sort the HS2 East Leg unfinished business. 1) Extend it from East Midlands Parkway to Newark via Nottingham alongside the existing live (new track/existing track unknown) to join the ECML then final appoach to Leeds built as originally planned. Appears to be...

With CPI set to be about 10% in September, does the Railways Pension Scheme have an cap on annual increases of eg 5% or will railay pensions increase by the full CPI? I can see consequences either way: If there is a cap then pension gets whittled away by inflation. If there isn't a cap...

Source: https://www.ccsa.ca/sites/default/files/2020-05/CCSA-COVID-19-Methamphetamine-Cocaine-Health-Risks-Infographic-2020-en_0.pdf Also of interest https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/06/british-parliament-cocaine-toilets/

Wonder how long before there are rail replacement buses from Okehampton to Bodmin Parkway due to the wind lashing waves to the track at Dawlish....... With the normal train journey from St Davids to Bodmin Parkway being 1h 40 mins or more a 38 minute journey to Okehsmpton and a 49 minute sprint...

Does the current plan of a new line from Manchester to somewhere near Slaithwaite and canning of Clayton to Leeds allow for rethink, where a future extension to Leeds loops further south and has a triangular junction somewhere near Kirkburton, with a high speed line to Sheffield? Therefore...

HS2 Journey time London to Manchester Picc is 1h11. Journey time from Manchester Picc to Leeds in Government report this week 33 minutes. If there was a triangle at Piccadilly (ie a Piccadilly avoiding spur) the following journeys and times would be possible. London, Old Oak Common...

Well thats the end of that. This will never see the light of day. Ludicrous gold plating for a service that wont be needed for decades, if ever. In what world will more than two an hour from Cambridge to Bletchley ever be needed, never mind 4. Impacting ~90 houses in Bedford (which face...

I nominate the proposals in the "other" lesser known "Beeching Report" to shut all stations between Paddington and Hayes and Harlington except Ealing Broadway and abolishing the "uneconomic" inner suburban stations Specifically naming Acton Main Line, West Ealing, Hanwell and Southall and...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/mml-electrification-updates.110445/page-138#post-4984322 Possibpe thing might be to divide the Corby trains at Kettering with MH/Corby portions, then the "semifast" intercities could run fast from MH and call at Luton Airport...

I've reached the stage of doing online E Courses that I don't have to do. Heaven knows what it is like for those stuck in a poky flat all day. At least I've got a garden and a model railway to fill leisure time, even the dog is getting bored though with the dark evenings.

Can anyone explain to me why the following can be done for only £26 million: New Passing Loop at Brading with signalling. "New" loop platform at Brading with new step free exit to road. Lowering track/raising platforms at eight stations. New electrical substation gear at three stations...

Telegraph is reporting that government has ordered up to 60% of rail services to be cut. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/01/05/half-rail-services-set-slashed/

I found these comments extraordinarily disturbing. Source: https://unherd.com/thepost/neil-ferguson-interview-china-changed-what-was-possible/

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/cuts-to-investment-in-rail-infrastructure.211931/#post-4891922 Just wait until external events cause interest rate rises. Then you will see some funding cuts of all sorts of things. Could be six months, could be five years, but...