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Moving on from the recent thread about interlaced or gauntletted track, where in the British Isles was mixed gauge track used, other than during the GWR Broad Gauge era? There was some mixed 5' 3" and 3' gauge track in Ireland, at Larne Harbour and in the port area at Derry/Londonderry, until...

The heritage sector provides engineering and other services to the “big railway”, including charter train operators, and I thought it would be helpful to have a thread on this. Specialist work is carried out by a commercial arm where the railway is a charity, but other services include storage...

According to the Transport Times blog, an Edinburgh-based company has been developing a means of capitalising on the increase in land value near infrastructure projects and using it as a funding source. They are working with Northumberland County Council to obtain between 25 and 30% of the...

This is a thread about summer Saturday holiday trains, such as they are, in the 21st Century. I'm old enough to remember the huge number of additional trains which ran to and from the West Country in the 1960s and, even in 1980, I remember that a Saturday spent at Yatton was still an interesting...

A previous thread on this subject has been closed. As a reminder, EU drivers' hours/tachograph legislation was drafted to apply to coach services. The UK has historically had many bus routes longer than 50 km and these were also affected by the legislation. Hence bus operators have broken up...

Any reason why an off-peak return MYT to CFD should not be valid outbound via Mirfield, then GC changing at Wakefield Kirkgate, but return via Leeds? Fares and times on the Northern website are all shown as "one change" (i.e. via Leeds) and selecting "via Wakefield" does not bring up anything...

The person in front of me in the queue, who was accompanied by his teenage (underage) daughter has just been refused alcohol by the sales assistant, who told him it was against the law as he could be buying it for her. I've never seen this happen before but have read about it happening in a...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/cottam-parkway-compulsory-purchase-orders-confirmed-station-to-be-built.212003/ Will this station be at the expense of Salwick (which only has a peak service?)

I see that there was a short-lived thread on this subject earlier in the year but it’s no longer open for replies so I hope this new one is acceptable. Use of interlaced track in the UK was evidently most common on tramways and examples still exist on the Croydon, Nottingham and Great Orme...

Elsewhere on this forum we have discussed the decline and possible demise of printed public transport information, in the interest of cost-cutting, mainly by local authorities/PTEs. Now, frequent changes of timetable arising from Covid have meant that new leaflets could have a short shelf life...

I'm watching the repeat of this two-part drama on BBC1. Can someone identify the South West Trains station they are starting from each morning? I'm not watching it for the trains and admit I always watch everything with Sheridan Smith in it! One of their evening journeys gets delayed at signals...

Aside from periodic service cuts due to changes in contract arrangements or commercial decisions, are buses pretty much back to where they were in early March, or are there areas where a Covid reduced timetable still applies? I ask because recent changes in West Yorkshire have actually brought...

On two separate visits to Ireland, a local train stopped to pick up one or two late comers after it had set off. The first was in the Dublin suburbs at Drumcondra in either 2002 or 2008, the second event was on a Cobh -Cork train in 2012 at one of the intermediate stations. The Cork train was...

I'm posting this as I recently had occasion to use St. James Park station in Exeter. The train was terminating there and the guard came through advising everyone (just me, I think) to move forward to the front door to alight. I was surprised how short the Exmouth-bound platform was (37m...

Not sure if this one has been discussed already. Israel and Albania are two which come to mind, the former for obvious reasons. I suspect there are quite a few others in Africa, South America and Asia.

With many travellers reluctant to fly during the current public health crisis, could passenger ferries return on some long-defunct routes? I'm thinking Newcastle - Bergen and Harwich - Esbjerg.

Although bars and cafes can now open, subject to social distancing and other restrictions, I've noticed that some on stations have not reopened. W H Smith at Bolton, which includes a cafe, was closed last Tuesday, as was Starbuck's at Manchester Vic. Are they closed simply because the fall in...

A shame the opportunity was not taken to convert to light rail when this was being discussed about 10 years ago, given its self-contained nature, closely spaced stations and the prospect of extending to St. Albans main line station.

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/werrington-grade-separation-approved.167526 I appreciate that planning for Werrington began several years ago and the project got under way in 2018, long before the Covid-19 crisis, but will there actually be a need for even more...

I've just acquired a second hand book on the Southern Electric which includes a photograph of a Derby/Sulzer diesel (later class 24) hauling the 9.10 am Hitchin - Brighton train near Honor Oak Park on a Sunday in June 1962. I had no idea such a service existed then. Was it just a summer weekend...