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I live miles away from london so go very infrequently, so no oyster card. Can i use my debit card instead? Does it work OK? Has anyone had any issues with this? If you tap in and out a lot I assume it just charges for a day ticket. But do you get multiple items on your statement. If this...

This comment prompted this thread So is a driver thinking he is protected by AWS likely to drive in a less defensive way than one with AWS, and therefore be actually more dangerous? Are we too reliant on safety backups so we dont look out for safety, but sit cocooned in a bubble not...

Sorry of this has been done before. How many buses are painted in the liveries of undertakings that merged into the current company First Leicester have a bus in Leicester City Transport colours First Leeds have a bus in West Yorkshire Road Car Co colours and one of the buses they have for the...

Thete is a siding at hellifield of a load of emu driving vehicles that were converted to driving parcels vans painted in royal mail red. Who to they belong to and why are they there? Well vandalised and graffiti covered.

On the West Coast route, between London* and where the Northampton route diverges at Roade, there are 4 tracks. These are paired by use so from East to West you have up slow, down slow, up fast and down fast. North of Rugby it is paired by direction, so from east to west you have down slow...

'The eerie beauty of London’s abandoned Tube stops' https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/the-eerie-beauty-of-londons-abandoned-tube-stops/ The article starts:-

Is there a national collection of old railway timetables? and is it on line at all? does the NRM have all the Bradshaws and BR timetables?

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/a-chat-about-northern-with-the-mayor-of-greater-manchester.175416/page-2 We also see stupid things like passengers having to change trains at Kirkby and Ormskirk just because of a poltical boundary.

In the UK we have:- Network Rail, publicly owned Openreach - privately owned by a major Internet Service Provider (BT) Transco/National grid - Privately owned There is no national water network. All have the disadvantage in that they are insulated from the industries customers. Rail, by...

I remember watching token exchange on the Cambrian Coast line,the Conwy Valley line and the Cotswold Line. RETB displaced a lot of this type of signalling so... what lines still use physical tokens/tablets on BR?

There are reports online that they are in deep financial trouble for example - https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1O80S7 Do they have any railway involvement? carillion going bust affected the railway badly. could Interserve failure do the same?

In Great Britian we generally use 'standard gauge - 4' 8 1/2" As does much of Europe and N America In Ireland, Russia and the Iberian peninsula, and historically in Australia, they use 5'3" What do people think are the benefits and downsides of the 2 main gauges? Would a general application...

could not get the site to load from about 1420 to 1440 today 1/12/18 was it just me or was there a problem?

In the days of the printed BR timetable you used to get the international timetable too, with boat trains and connections into Europe. The last table was the Manchester Victoria - Harwich Parkeston Quay train. It was open to any ticket holder, and you could piece it together in the main...

I would argue not 1. Very quick to blame Northern and Thameslink for the may timetable fiasco with no mention that the main cause was Network Rail being late with the timetable. 2. Blaming the TOC's for the DOO dispute, when it was a DfT policy, and was written in franchise agreements. 3...

Between Fiveways southbound platform and the canal, there is the track of a lifted railway. It seems to diverge from the cross city line just south of 5 ways stn. By the time you get to the road bridge it is higher than the existing railway. Does anyone know where this line went, why did it...

I use the Settle Carlisle a bit Why does it have a 60 restriction. Its laid out for high speeds. Would it do any harm to the modern track if the speed was 70, even if just for DMUs. One suspects the restriction was made when it was Cl47 and Mk 1's and jointed track on wood sleepers, and no-one...