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Oh yes i forgot about those. I think there are a few booked workings. Some of those are 5 hours and 45 minutes so easily beat it. Really they ought to make all Liverpool to Norwich services operated by 170s. So much nicer and more suitable than having such a long journey on 158s. Out of...

I find the timetables of these odd 170 services quite interesting. The service on Monday to Friday (05:20 Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central 06:21) calls at and at reverses at Bristol Parkway for nine minutes (05:29 to 05:38) and calls at Newport for nine minutes (05:59 to 06:08) meaning...

If the heritage railways provided their data to real time trains or released open data then i see no reason why not. But so far nobody other than North Yorkshire Moors Railway and Swanage Railway have done so. I think another issue is that most heritage railways do not have any sort of modern...

They are not always. It depends on the bus company. I have worked for bus companies that have banned dogs on both our stage carriage services and rail replacement. I personally prefer banning them as so many dog owners these days can be very irresponsible and let their dogs sit on seats or sit...

SWR are the worst for this. Back in 2018 they got Worldline to do them a custom simplified script rather than using the standard Worldline script. For dividing trains they changed "divides" to "separates". For request stops they changed "alight" to "get off the train". For departures they...

I am just thinking that 5 hours and 15 minutes (06:25 Bristol Temple Meads to Stansted Airport 11:40) may well be a record for the longest Turbostar journey. I certainly can not think of any other Turbostar journeys that have been that long. Have the Cross Country 170s ever been anywhere else...

My prediction is that they will probably release a Hull Trains livery IET unit. It is the only livery of 800/801/802/803 that Hornby have not yet released. It would be an easy one for them to do.

Reminds me of the old "x this is x" format that used to be used across the UK railway network. It lasted until 2018 at all Southern stations. So the announcements would say for example "Gatwick Airport this is Gatwick Airport. The train now standing at platform one is the..." once the train had...

Greater Anglia unit diagrams have now been published on their FOI page of their website: https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/freedom-of-information May 2025 to December 2025 unit diagrams: https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/media/15362/download December 2025 to May 2026 unit diagrams...

If that is the case then Hastings actually gets far more Southern carriages per hour than Southeastern carriages per hour. The normal off peak Southeastern frequency is 1tph 8car London stopper and 1tph 8car London fast making a total of 16cars per hour. The normal off peak Southern frequency is...

Myself and others have posted about pointless rail replacement buses in this thread. However these have always been cases if disruption or where a train was cancelled but taking the next train was quicker. So the rail replacement buses still served a purpose in replacing a cancelled train even...

Why do only the front 7 coaches get released at the NB P1 at Plumpton railway station? P1 fits an entire 8 coaches. It is not even tight. The full 8 coaches fit and you still have a bit of extra space. They could easily release the front 8 coaches. But this has been going on for over a decade...

I wonder if the through trains from London Liverpool Street to Peterborough (and from London Liverpool Street to Lowestoft as well) may also come back under GBR ownership. I remember hearing a rumour that they were considering bringing these back now that they have the bi mode Flirt trains but...

Royston appears to be 2tph in each direction TL service and 1tph in each direction GN service on the Monday to Friday timetable. So it seems that TL is actually the more frequent caller. I forgot about Ely as well. For some reason i thought that GN managed that station. I am aware the SX is...

Some of the ex New Zealand class EM units are apparently in South Africa and Tanzania and Zimbabwe now. I am struggling to find any photos online of them in any of these three countries so i am not sure whether or not they are in service. But if so then that means Zimbabwe is another country...

We really ought to just introduce a new policy that all rail replacement services must be low floor buses. Not just PSVAR compliant but also low floor. There are hundreds of low floor bus operators with hundreds of low floor bus vehicles in all parts of the country so there is really no excuse...

If anyone is interested it appears that these will be the final privatised trains and the first nationalised trains: Final privatised "Greater Anglia" service (and the final overall privatised GA franchise service): • 00:50 London Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria 01:57 Final privatised...

We seem to have a large amount of stations that are managed by an operator that calls less than another operator. So i am trying to make a full list of these. I can think of roughly thirty off the top of my head but i am sure there are others too. I am splitting this list in to three separate...

Uckfield is a good contender. It is just a very basic long platform. It does have a small ticket office but it is only open for a few hours in the morning. So for the rest of the day all you have is a small bus shelter type shelter for cover. It is an extremely basic station especially for what...

Not my photos but i found this online which shows the destination codes. It is all three digit codes which then set both the exterior and interior displays. It was an old Lawo Luminator Europa system. There were 17 units numbers 142041 to 142049 and 142051 to 142058 which had it. These...