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It is worth checking out a youtube channel "simply railway". He is an engineer who works for Alsthom who loves rail travel and posts very professionally made but charming and uncommercial videos. He has covered the Cornish and Caledonian sleepers too. Interesting to see and hear impressions of...

They are only spacious if you don't have any legs! Although the fully refurbished demonstrator PRM compliant unit is fine.

A decent canopy on the island platform might not be a bad idea too. Many passengers for the London, Sheffield, Nottingham and Lincoln trains have to wait there.

I noticed yesterday that near the waste terminal sidings several of the latticed uprights supporting the catenary on the up side have cladding around them. I have never seen this anywhere else. Does anyone know the reason?

How many electric diagrams is Northern now operating on the Bolton route? Is it still just the original 3?

Yes, why were so many EMU diagrams worked by Pacers, 156s etc yesterday, 12th May, when Allerton depot was full of idle 319s?

I agree, a pity that the Liverpool-MIA diagrams will be reverting to a DMU, presumably one of the dreadful underpowered 2 car156s which will be overcrowded and take for ever for passengers to fight their way on and off through the inadequate doors, a very retrograde step.

Some of the smaller schemes in Scotland?

The two main tunnels are presumably Standedge and Morley. I fail to see why wiring tunnels has suddenly become an unsurmountable obstacle. The existing 25kV electrified system includes probably 10s of kms of tunnels in total which were never presented as insuperable obstacles in the past...

Surely it's the result of a cheapskate method [i.e. without spending ANY money on infrastructure] of being seen to be doing something about the appalling Leeds-Manchester service. The consequence is that all intermediate communities except Huddersfield will suffer even though the smaller...

Try "God's Own Country"......you might find it ticks several of these boxes!

Yes, remember them well and travelled on them regularly. London Bridge to London Bridge via Peckham Rye, Tulse Hill, Streatham Common, Selhurst, Norwood Jct, New Cross Gate and vv was 30 minute frequency all day and into the late evening, at least until the late 1960s. However, outside of the...

A lot of the LBSCR AC equipment was AEG and so the supply of many parts dried up during WW1 and extensions beyond Crystal Palace and West Croydon could not be completed. If it were not for the war the catenary could well have reached Brighton by the early 1920s and this was the original...

Thanks for that, a really good read and I am so pleased to hear that someone else enjoys rail travel in the former Soviet Union. I have done Berlin-St.Peterburg. St.Peterburg-Murmansk. Riga-Moscow. Moscow-Volgograd. Vienna-Kiev. Kiev-Odessa. Sebastopol-Kiev and shorter trips in Armenia and...

This ghastly woman has just got everything she deserves. I am hoping that by trying to hang on now she will be exposed to public ridicule and I shall enjoy every minute of her humiliation. Unfortunately she has already done a huge amount of damage to the country during the short time that she...

I wish we could have a separate thread for the South Fylde line! I thought this one was supposed to be about Blackpool-Manchester ELECTRIFICATION and it is only the Blackpool North route which is being, and ever likely to be, electrified!

There was a similar arrangement on the Victoria-Bognor/Portsmouth diagrams with the train divided at Barnham, a 4-car unit without catering continuing to Portsmouth via Chichester and the 4-BIG or 4-CEP terminating at Bognor. The 'main line' through Chichester is now much busier than the Bognor...

Do you think Mother Teresa is likely to be consulting you?

Japan's Message to the UK and the EU. This rather long but well worth a read, especially by those living in areas where there has been Japanese investment; Nissan, Hitachi plants etc. www.mofa.go.jp/files/000185466.pdf btw Mother Teresa does not want any of us bothering our tiny minds with...

I agree with you about Cameron but Parliament is culpable too. They passed the legislation that authorised the Referendum. In the Committee stage Alex Salmond proposed an amendment that since the UK is a multinational state there should be a quadruple lock, i.e. each constituent nation would...