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I've heard reports elsewhere that the 222s will go to Waterloo - Exeter after the Midland Main Line is electrified. Also that the proposed South West franchise which will include Waterloo - Exeter won't include Paddington - Penzance intercities.

I've seen reports from a webgroup that there was an incident at the new Hampden Park CCTV crossing in Eastbourne yesterday Apparently a person in a wheelchair got trapped the wrong side of the barriers coming down and some lorry drivers lifted her over in the nick of time before the train...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2943467/Driverless-cars-green-light-WON-T-need-licence-meaning-ll-able-school-run-own.html An interesting article (its the Daily Mail but nothing politically contentious), I'm not sure it will happen in the timescales they think, but give it twenty or...

How are they able to still run 1938 tube stock after the ban on old coaches such as Mk 1s without cup and cone came in? Alas still waiting for the Isle of Wight underground to be extended back to Ventnor through that long single bore tunnel.....

This is how to do a busway properly. Its an unguided busway (which means that the emergency services can use it too) and it has proper stations with platforms, canopies, station signs and footbridges, along with GW/CG joint line style "through roads" for non stopping buses. Once the bus gets to...

The last 18 months or so have seen the roll out of fibre to the cabinet Broadband at 40-80mb and unlimited use packages of same. This makes it possible, with suitable software (which is now available from various sources) to work from home connecting in exactly the same way to all the office...

Mods' note: split from ECML Disruption - Saturday 27th December Also since privatisation drivers pay has risen disproportionately due to union picking off a weak TOC and obtaining a thumping pay rise then the others having to follow suit or lose drivers to other TOCs paying more (hence the...

At the moment you can only be prosecuted for driving after taking drugs if it can be demonstrated that they impaired your driving. From 2nd March 2015 the law changes. Driving with drugs in your body over a limit will be illegal whether you are impaired or not. The new law covers both drugs of...

To my mind, the biggest flaw with the beeching closures, wasn't in many cases the closure itself but that the rail replacement was completely divorced from the railway. When you had a branch line, it meant: that trains connected with branch trains at the same station (not a bus station 1/4...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2849057/Commuters-told-run-hide-tell-police-anti-terror-leaflet.html Run in a crowded railway station? It seems to me whoever wrote this leaflet is perhaps not aware what happened at Bethnal Green in 1943 where 173 people were killed in a crush to get...

The Wessex Draft route study for consultation states: Looks like the reports of the death of Third Rail were greatly exaggerated http://www.networkrail.co.uk/long-term-planning-process/wessex-route-study-draft-for-consultation.pdf

Very interesting DFT link. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rail-subsidy-per-passenger-mile Basically, for England, the following subsidies are paid (including the Network Grant paid directly to Network Rail, subsidies paid directly to TOCs and premiums from TOCs: Former SR...

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/activists-face-supreme-court-ruling-paying-parking-meters-saving-motorists-80000/

I hear a lot said about the midland main line being full. I dont think it is. Officially it is full south of Harpenden, however that is largely caused by fast Thameslinks having to cross slow Thameslinks on the fast lines, not the four (six peak) per hour intercities on the fast lines. As...

What would have happened to the railways. My guess is that the following might have occured. * Rapid rise in car/lorry use in the 1940s that occurred in the 1960s * No nationalisation of whole industry. * Closure of an awful lot of branch lines, but not in a national programme, the...

Has there ever been a serious campaign to reopen this route. Proposed for electrification by the Southern Railway in 1946, it had steady rises in passengers from 1948 till closure in 1966. The closure was apparently marginal with no attempt to single the line or destaff and even BR apparently...

Official - spiny norman did exist. Is this connected to the evacuation of luton airport last week, is spiny norman still in a hanger there. Is there a massive cover up. I think we should be told...

Various threads discuss the peak congestion on the Southern main lines. I'm wondering if some limited use of 16 car trains would provide an answer, these could split into two 8 car trains further south. Brighton Line Victoria - Eastern - accessed from Brighton Main fast lines via Stewarts...

1 week to go before Network Rail is nationalised. My guess is that immediate plans won't be affected barring a serious economic crash. However with their spending now counting towards the national debt, and therefore impacting on general government borrowing rates and credit rating agency...

As of 1st September 2014 any vacuum cleaner that uses more than 1600 Watts is to be banned (to limit carbon dioxide emissions it appears)As of 2017, 900 watts will be the maximum. Which, the consumers association, has now advised people to buy one before the end of the month when most of the...