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It's well known that, because of coal shortages during and after WW2, the government sponsored a programme to convert some 1,200 locomotives from all railway companies to burn oil. By 1948, when the railways had been nationalised, almost 100 engines had been altered, but there was insufficient...

I'm posting this having just finished the 1,000 piece Underground map jigsaw, which has A LOT of white blanks. This map includes the Overground lines forming an "outer circle", plus Euston to Watford Jn, ELL to West Croydon, Crystal Palace and Gospel Oak - Barking. The latest version which I've...

I read that Platform 5 Publishing has closed for the duration but I received "Heritage Railway" from Morton's in the past week. Many publishers will be in difficulty but some are evidently still going, for how long we don't know, as news and particularly photographs will dry up.

I understand the line is flooded somewhere east of Knottingley. Drax-bound trains have been noted on RTT as parked at Sudforth Lane. The Goole - Leeds passenger service has even disappeared from RTT, with no mention of it being cancelled on NRE or Northern's website. The main concern though...

National Rail network only. My first thought was Aberystwyth (pop. around 18k) but then I found that both Newquay (20k) and Falmouth (22k) were bigger. Further investigation suggested these were wide of the mark as two New Towns, East Kilbride (75k) and Redditch (85k), must surely top the...

Any new system should put an end to ORCATS raiding, e.g. TPE running between Newcastle and Edinburgh, and walk-on "single operator" tickets. Also any future open access operations should comply with the principle of being "not primarily abstractive". If the Govt is taking the financial risk...

The attached shows the fencing apparently considered necessary to prevent passengers trying to board a train from the wrong side, in this case at bay platform 2 at Stalybridge. Other stations with similar platforms have the same. Surely a sign saying "please do not board trains on this side"...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/why-was-the-hartlepool-station-up-line-closed-to-traffic.199445/ I understand the platform curvature means that 150s and any other unit with 1/3 - 2/3 door positions are banned. If the other platform was to be reopened, then the...

Labour has announced plans to reduce rail fares by a third and simplify ticket prices for part-time workers if it wins the upcoming election. The party also wants to make train travel free for young people under the age of 16. Such a policy could only be applied to regulated fares, which...

Both Northern and TPE are (hopefully) near the end of a programme of driver training on new and unfamiliar trains (e.g. 170s). Anyone know what level of training was given to drivers in steam days on new/unfamiliar types of loco, bearing in mind the huge variety of classes in service, even in...

A question about class 1 and 2 trains and why sometimes a slower train is class 1. Every hour a Northern train leaves Leeds for Manchester Vic via Bradford at xx18 and another for Southport via Brighouse at xx20. The train via Bradford is a class 2, that via Brighouse a class 1, despite making...

Excluding stations with the suffix "Road" or "Parkway". Tring, Kirkby Stephen and Howden come to mind. All are over 1.5 miles away, I presume from the town centre.

I see there is a 2012 discussion on this, now closed. Do any TOCs still use these, as I don't remember seeing one for a while. Greater use of electronic destination screens and short turn-round times at terminals may have already seen them phased out, but perhaps they are still used on routes I...

Mirfield platform 2 York platform 2 (the bay which only serves the Scarborough line) or do the TPE Saturday extras go from there? Until recently Marsden platform 2 There must be others.

While many small stations are "open" 24/7, some are locked at night after the last train and unlocked in the morning. Examples near me are Rochdale, Todmorden and Hebden Bridge. But who does this? Tod and Hebden Bridge are unstaffed once the ticket office closes at 20.30 hrs. Does the guard of...

"and been abandoned" has been added to exclude lines closed and later reopened as part of London Overground, Croydon Tramlink and Manchester Metrolink. Obviously the big one is Woodhead and branches, but which others? High Street - Bridgeton Central (Glasgow) Lancaster - Morecambe Promenade...

My train home (22.55 Todmorden - Littleborough) was cancelled on 9th July. It was showing "delayed due to trespassers on the line" when I got to the station. At 23.10 the screens were still giving the same message and I asked the one remaining passenger where he was going. He said Littleborough...

ENCTS passes issued to TfGM residents, and which offer free off-peak rail and Metrolink travel within Greater Manchester, will now operate the ticket gates at Piccadilly, Manchester Airport, Rochdale, Salford Central, Salford Crescent, Bolton and Wigan Wallgate. They don't work at Victoria and...

Not sure if we've had this one before. I'll start off with three very dfferent examples Navigation Road (two single lines) Carlton (Notts) Chathill Has anyone missed a train because of the barriers being down for an extended period?

[Evening Standard 6th March 2019] According to Real Time Trains, trains from Paris were between an hour and 100 minutes late crossing Kent and similar delays are evident today. I remember doing Paris to Leeds in five hours a few years ago. Not any more.