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On my usual jaunter to work to Haywards Heath, I was rather surprised to see a class 150 on the Brighton- Great Malvern service. Assuming there was a fault on the normal unit and it doesn't look like a comfy DMU! (never rode it myself). Wondering where the normal unit for this service is...

Just want to see what people think of their previous local TOCs vs the one they have now. I am aware the some areas only ever had one of them like, South West Trains, Virgin West Coast and First Great Western (1st area). Wonder if any people actually preferred their former TOC and now...

Looks like the ECML has been hit by tragedy again (fatality assuming) Morning rush hour was affected by someone being hit at Hadley Wood. Now there is another incident of similar nature at New Barnet just in time for the evening peak. It does seem that there are more of these instances...

Lightning strike has caused big problems from Waterloo/Victoria trains at rush hour too! Worst hit seems to be the South Eastern trains from Vic. Must be pretty chaotic at those terminals right now.

This seems to have been a problem all day! Seems to be taking ages to fix a broken down train, so I was wondering if it was much worse (like a fire). Surely, they would have moved it ASAP. Anyone got any further details?

Apparently, there was a swan causing problems at Tottenham Hale today (rush hour too). Wonder if anyone has stories about animal hold ups?

Apparently, there are big delays on this route. NR just reports there is some sort of incident on a Thalys train. There is a French info link provided by NR, but my French ability is near zero! tried Google translate but that proved to be near useless. Translation: Traffic problems on...

Pretty horrible day for delays at the moment. ECML with big problems at Potters Bar Person hit at Tile Hill causing problems into Birmingham. Chiltern route also has problems at High Wycombe. Main route into Norwich has delays at Chelmsford. Some sort of obstruction is messing up...

Seems to be a truly horrible evening for this route with a death (presumedly) somewhere on the line near Petersfield and moments later another person hit at Hilsea. In addition, there was some other incident at Havant too that added to the pandemonium. I had no experience of it first hand...

It seems there are a few instances at my station (Brighton) where the machines reject either an advanced purchased ticket for the day or recently it also rejected a ticket I bought for the day at the ticket office! Thankfully, it was not a busy time, but I would not have been happy if I had...

Bit of an interesting job title, trying to making it sound more flashy I suppose!! I am trying to understand this role better and reading all the info on the Southern website and my interpretation is this. 1. Revenue protection, but more enforcement based. 2. BTP based role, but I guess...

So the rail industry wishes all its passengers a happy new by increasing fares (in tough economic times!). Just seems that every year they offer the same lame sentence about paying for investment, new trains etc. Most areas the train companies have a monopoly and they are taking full use...

Jusat saw these entires on the SWT journeycheck 11:39 London Waterloo to Poole due 14:55 This train will be delayed and is expected to be 848 minutes late from Totton. This is due to signalling problems. Message Received :10/12/2011 14:09 12:05 London Waterloo to Weymouth due 15:00...

Some sort of incident near to Dunbar, but I can't find further details as of yet. Not a good few days for many mainline routes so far this week it seems!

Hi there everyone. Back in 2005, I applied for the role of Trainee Train Driver for Southern and got to the assessment centre stage, but I messed up on the stage of the dreaded dots (now thanks to the power of the net, I know that test is a toughie!) I was a fresh faced graduate back then...