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With the often proposed curves at Camp Hill in Birmingham which would enable trains to and from the Gloucester and Derby directions to use the ex Great Western platforms at Moor Street (including dedicated tracks and the closure of Bordesley so as not to get in the way of the Stourbridge trains...

When the Clyde Fastlink was installed in Glasgow running from Broomielaw to the new Southern General via Govan Cross, the main feature of the segregated sections was so for the buses to have priority at junctions, by means of using some sort of sensor to detect a bus approaching and change the...

When on my way back home today, I had noticed the above milepost. Through doing a brief search on the Railmiles website using the mileage engine, it does not seem to be measured from Berwick-upon-Tweed (the start point north of there for the former North British Railway) as it is almost 188...

With some recent comments in the Manchester Taskforce Recovery Timetable (see https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/manchester-recovery-taskforce-timetable-consultation.213089/page-50#post-5238997) suggesting service patterns to improve reliability, plus the Transpennine Route Upgrade, Northern...

Thinking about when HS2 reaches Crewe, I have briefly thought about a possible Taktplan service pattern for North Wales, Chester, and Shrewsbury areas. My suggestion is below. London Euston - Chester (Traditional InterCity) calling Milton Keynes Central, Rugby, Stafford, Crewe, and Chester...

I'm looking to do the St Philips Marsh diversion in Bristol during the week of 30 August. Looking at the various and some obvious split points, I have came across the Anytime Return "Route: Via Hereford" fare at £48.90 (DSB Railcard). Also, as I intend stopping off in the West Midlands on the...

I stumbled upon an article from the Daily Telegraph that mentions that the statues of James Watt, Matthew Boulton, and William Murdoch that were put into storage for the Midland Metro works in Birmingham, will be put back on show but with a plaque explaining their "dark side" in the involvement...

Regarding the MkIV sets and the Class 67s, is it intended for there to be a loco change to/from an electric one for the Crewe - Manchester section? Should if that is the case, it would be a small step into banning the use of diesel traction at train shed type stations, of which Manchester...

To save clogging up the "Paper Tickets v E-tickets" thread (where the below post was made) The bit I bolded above: Could it be explained how someone had made a few transactions at a company called Dunelms (I have never heard of them - it transpired it is a home furnishings store - the nearest...

Following on from the Cross Country to operate Leeds-Glasgow via Settle services using HSTs? thread, I did initially attempt to see how it would work, both with XC and also a possibility of extending some London St Pancras - Sheffield to Carlisle at least. Although it would work northbound...

#moderator note: posts #1-#3 originally in this thread Being as the line used to extend beyond the old village of East Kilbride to Hamilton which predated the New Town, has there ever been any reports/campaigns/vote bribery to investigate converting to trams, extending beyond the old village to...

While having a quick think of how to eliminate as many as possible diesel trains starting/terminating at Birmingham New Street, and as the electrification teams cannot be everywhere at once, one possibility is to extend the Hereford trains to somewhere in East Midlands Region. As Transport for...

On most days this week, whenever I have had interaction with a human being in a public facing role, I have been dealt with by someone who has had a tattoo. Safe to say, they are from what I could tell, were personal ones such as names of family members, famous phrases, Harley Davidson...

Being as the number of the traditional InterCity trains that presently run to and from Euston will be reduced when HS2 is up and running, my suggested service provision could be as follows: Euston - Tring calling all stations every 30 minutes (as present, maybe also call Queens Park too)...

While looking at both the south and north sections of the London and North Western Sectional Appendices, I have noticed that for the route mainly north of Preston, there is only a five mile difference in terms of maximum speed (for example, 105 normal, 110 EPS). Is it intended to have these...

I have had a go at designing a clock face timetable for the Walsall area post HS2. My start point was the existing local all stations via Aston running to the same times between Birmingham New Street and Walsall due to sharing track with the Cross City Line services between New Street and Aston...

The normal pre-Covid timetable has a frequency of every 10 minutes between Barnt Green and Four Oaks via Birmingham New Street, with a train every 20 minutes to and from Bromsgrove and Redditch, and every 10/20 minutes beyond Four Oaks to Lichfield (both City and Trent Valley). As these trains...

Having stumbled upon the above report (see attachment) while searching for something else (the former Centro plan of Birmingham New Street - Walsall via Aston every 10 minutes, with every 30 minutes to each of Aldridge, Rugeley Trent Valley, and Wolverhampton via Willenhall), this is one of the...

Following on from the "Should Network SouthEast return?" thread, with the present day fashion of the "Transport for [insert region]", could a new version of Regional Railways make a comeback? The modifications I have in mind for the present day set up is as follows: Northern - Split it back...

Following on from the Chiltern route post-HS2 timetable I posted recently, I have had a go at doing one for the local services at the Birmingham end. My post-HS2 suggestion is: London Marylebone trains to run to and from Snow Hill (reinstatement of Platform 4 required at Snow Hill) at an even...