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Yes, another brilliant British invention sold on the cheap so someone else could make money out of it. The government of the time should have been shot. Just think of all the jobs we could have had in this country and the foundation for a world leading train design and manufacturing company that...

172s are needed to be released from the Goblin line for this to happen and they look like being delayed unfortunately, so don’t count any chickens yet!

This is great news, all we need now is GNWR to sort everything out - timings, people, trains etc etc! I really hope this happens but thee have been false dawns before.

Are there any early indications as to the changes expected in January for Cornwall?

I appreciate the info re low usage of the earlier service, but given the growth of Newquay and overall growth in general I think it needs to be revisited. Even better if services could go direct to Plymouth. A suggestion to get around the late start of services if you’re going west. Catch the...

I regularly go to the Newquay area and although I live in Nuneaton, sometimes travel from London meeting my wife at Tiverton Parkway. Way better than train all the way to Newquay, it saves well over an hour. Given the billions spent on rail in London and also quite a lot elsewhere too, it’s...

West Midlands Trains have stated publicly that from December the Nuneaton to Coventry service will be combined with the Leamington service to form a through Nuneaton to Leamington service using cascaded 172s. They have found a path, I heard it from the lips of the timetable planner that WMT...

Thank you janb

Could anyone confirm when Virgin West Coast advances are going be released for the 23rd June. I can see LNWR are already there. Thanks in advance.

One much cheaper option is to wait until HS2 is built and then you can restore the flat junction across the now WCML so trains can reverse from platform one or two over to the Leicester line.

Midlands Connect is a Quango really and it does not have the money for this project. Network Rail did a sort of feasibility for it when looking at options to link the Leicester line to the northbound WCML for freight. However the curve from the underpass up to the station was too tight for...

I would be nice to see a departure to TV stations later than 2200 but as previously indicated, it would mean keeping Nuneaton, at least, open later then now which is what scuppered the 2300 stop. Maybe with a lot of LNWR staff to be based at Nuneaton they might change their mind! The last...

Does anyone have any updates on this project, particularly the likelihood of the 172s being released at original planned time? Happy Easter everyone!

I travelled all the way from Tamworth to Durham and back on a Voyager this week and it was absolutely fine. There is so much nonsense talked about them. The only thing wrong with them is that are not long enough, they should all be 5 carriages long at least. I think they should be cascaded to...

Every single deliverable on the Nuckle project has been late, often by several years, so it would not be surprising in the slightest if the new platform at Coventry and associated signalling works etc are delayed past December 2019, the current due date.

How incredibly patronising! You suggest what was said but you were not there! The first question was 'So it's going to be a through service between Nuneaton and Leamington with no change needed at Coventry', answer was 'yes'. Second question 'What about pathing conflicts at Coventry?'. Answer ...

As I understand it there will be 2 172s allocated to the service from December. I get the points about reliability issues with much more opportunity for delays BUT a through service is much better from a passenger point of view and it will open up a lot of new journey opportunities. Having 2...

The person from London Northwestern Railway responsible for timetabling said that to me and a room full of people this morning. We were surprised but it was clear what he said.

Heard it from the horses mouth today - from December we should having a cascaded 172 going from Nuneaton to Leamington via Coventry - direct! They have found a path through Coventry that works, so finally we get a service that connects north and south Warwickshire. It will onviously also call at...

Nice to see this morning a Crosscountry service held at Nuneaton to allow people from a late running Virgin service to connect to it at a station run by London Northwestern. Well done to whoever made it happen.