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Local newspapers website reports that a planning application from GA to demolish the platform building at Salhouse on the Bittern Line has been rejected after having been initially given the go-ahead late last year following a campaign to preserve it...

I've just seen the first 15 minutes of tonight's epiode of Endeavour (the Morse prequel) which contsined a scene obviously shot on a preserved line (Southern Region I think given the station paint scheme). Last series was set in 1967, ending in the autumn, so this series is, I suspect, set...

I'm not sure whether this is the correct sub-forum for something like this, but I've just seen a Youtube video that I thought might be of interest, concerning an elderly American semi-retired engineer who has what appears to be a miniature protype for a modern version of Brunel's atmospheric...

As I think I've mentioned on here before, I'm frequently a road user (car passenger) on Saturday afternoons/early evenings on a short return trip which takes us across the GEML at Swainsthorpe AHB crossing, which IIRC is the first such on the line south from Norwich. We usually cross the line...

According to the local press, NR's HOBC is due to clean and refresh 79 miles of local track (mainly the GEML) over the next 2 years...

It would appear that DfT want to transfer Nottingham-Liverpool services from EMT to TPE, thereby severing East Anglia-Northwest services: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/norwich_could_lose_direct_train_link_to_liverpool_1_3658989 (Yes, I know the image is of a Norwich-London Liverpool...

Services between Cambridge and Norwich are returning to normal after a fatality at Keswick AHB: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/update_train_line_re_opens_after_local_man_killed_after_being_hit_by_train_in_keswick_1_3652422 From the above link: I know this crossing well, and it sadly seems...

We had to drive to just SW of Grantham today, and, on the way back to Norfolk, on the A17 at Holbeach, we saw a lowloader coming the other way (heading west) with a green class 14 on it. Had it been at the NNR this past weekend?

I couldn't find a thread discussing this, so thought I'd set one up (apologies if I've missed one). http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/update_train_bosses_apologise_after_day_of_disruption_between_norwich_and_london_1_3605512 From the above link: Local BBC news today spoke with commuters, one of...

Following-on from the "Trains on Google Street View" thread (http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=89937&highlight=streetview), I thought it might be interesting to see how many GSV images there are of AHB. MCB or MCB-OD crossings with some signs of activation but no train visible. I'll...

Apologies if there is already a thread on this subject (and in case the moderators decide it should be in the Infrastructure section of the forum), but I couldn't find anything on todays' announcement, so I thought I'd post a thread discussing it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26820538...

I'm posting this opinion (and I stress it is merely an opinion) with the intention of learning new information surrounding the approval of steam on the national network and stimulating a fair debate. I am not trying to form a virtual lynch mob or trigger a flame war. Having posted in the "A4's...

Sadly, it appears that 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley will not be at the North Norfolk Railways March Steam Gala this coming weekend (7th-9th March), due to a late decision by NR regarding weight restriction on the Bittern Line, despite having given the green light to the move last year...

Just a quick question - I'm familiar with the addition of mini barriers to AOCL crossing in Scotland to convert them to AOCL+B spec, but I'm unsure as to how these crossing differ from existing ABCL types (my excuse is that AHBs and MWLs are more common in my area (with a few of the MCB-OD...

Might I jump on the "where is this?" bandwagon by enquiring as to the location in the photo in the link below, please? It's a B12 somewhere on the Eastern Region in the early-ish postwar years, but where is it? http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/6547884763/

Apparently, today saw the opening (re-opening?) of the loop and second platform at Beccles: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/beccles_loop_opens_with_a_slight_delay_1_1737085

I was browsing through my copy of "Track Atlas of Mainland Britain" last night, and happened to examine the enlarged map of Machester Piccadilly. Just outside the station, where the lines join from the south, it indicates a level crossing _black line across the tracks at right angles with "LC"...

I don't know whether the chap concerned is a member here, but I subscribe to this Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/SteveDD1?feature=watch Yesterday, he uploaded videos of some of the 4 and 6-track crossings of the ECML and ECML plus ex-Midland route, and, in two of them (Maxey...

Hi new member here - an interested and enthusiastic layman who's also into railway modelling. I was passenger in a car this evening, around 7 pm when we pulled up at Swainsthorpe AHB crossing just south of Norwich which was activated. A young woman who was doing some gardening at the front...