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Anybody know the reason the sidings here have recently been relaid with three sidings alongside each other? They are now together between the old Royal Mail canopy & the main line. Ive not seen any aggregates traffic in there for well over a year & can only think its something to do with...

Heard some rumours today that FGW intend to withdraw the Travelling Chef concept from later this year. Not sure if anyone else has heard anything or if its anything to do with the reduced 1st class accomodation that will be available after conversion of 1 vehicle to Standard class. Will be a...

East Midlanda are currently doing a three week trial of catering off the normal routes. Selected Skegness & Norwich services are getting a trolley East of Nottingham. Not sure how far this happens on the Skeggy route but unfortunatley its only as far as Peterborough on the Norwich. In my opinion...

I was under the impression that these where taking place last night (22nd November) but not heard anything yet. Anyone else know anything?

From the Twitter feed I guess it was a loco-hauled set that failed at Bicester tonight. Possibly in-bound stock for the 18.15 down. Appears to have been chaos at Marylebone with BTP on hand to keep the peace. Do Chiltern generally have any kind of Thunderbird available for problems with...

Thankfully I am day off but getting reports of the following... Total loss of signalling at Chelmsford. Trains cancelled or terminating short all over the place. BBC are at the station (low news day) as it will be impossible to move that amount of passengers by road. Overheads are down at...

Greater Anglia seems to have a problem with what appears to be a disgruntled commuter. Spends large parts of the day rubbishing their tweets (which are a bit too frequent in my opinion) and complaining about filthy, late or short-formed trains. Now everyone has the right to reply but this...

I remember a thread reguarding a priv trip Paddington to Plymouth that mentioned a duo berth for about £44. Anyone know what it is through to Penzance? Spoke to a booking clerk today who hadnt booked a sleeper before & could only offer £70 (£35 each) but wasnt very confident. I have got BR...

From NXEA... This Tuesday will see the grand opening of the Westfield Shopping Centre at Stratford. This shopping centre is Europe's largest urban shopping mall and has hundreds of shops and restaurants. There is also a multi screen cinema, hotels and a casino. The centre will be open...

Just noticed on the arrivals board for London Euston a delayed arrival from Birmingham New St & Crewe. Nothing unusual about that except it was the 11.33 from Crewe & 12.33 from New St (which started International today) which both combine at & depart Northampton 13.35. Now this is where it...

I had a look for a friend yesterday who is looking to travel Sheffield-Norwich next month but this option no longer appears on this route. Anyone know why please?

Ok i know there have been dozens of questions reguarding first class service on the WCML but heres another. On Royal Wedding day (Friday 29th April for anyone whos been to a different planet) Virgin are running a full VHF timetable with full 1st class catering. Upgrades can be made on this...

Now that Virgin has shuffled the pack for the usual after peak mass exodus from London on friday evenings a couple of things confuse me. 18.46 Preston - This train is now formed of a 221 but i notice it still retains the slow amble North with Pretendolino timings. Is this just down to fast...

Just back from a weekend in Derby for the excellent beer festival in the superbly preserved roundhouse. On the Saturday i took a spin on the Derwent Valley line mainly to visit Crich Tramway Museum which was open for half term week. Caught the 09.50 from Derby to Whatstandwell, 13.17 from...

Anybody know roughly how much TOCs pay for a litre of diesel at the moment. I dont think they pay any tax & a few years ago i did hear that it was only around 20p.

Anybody know what failed & why to cause such chaos & delays up to 180 minutes today? NRES just states 'due to a broken down train'.

With Christmas almost upon us, Virgin Trains is urging all passengers to check train times and book seats home in plenty of time as services around the holiday period are already very busy. Current tickets sales are up 10% compared with this time last year and, with a total of almost 300,000...

It gave me great pleasure to read these newspaper articles this week. ASLEF Journal (November 2010) reports a man from the Southend area has been jailed for a year for causing an estimated £45k worth of damage to NXEA rolling stock with the WEAR tag. Norwich Evening News (13/11/2010)...

Does anybody know whether these excellent offers are still on going? NXEA website & booking offer leaflets say until 30th September 2010 unless otherwise stated yet it appears to still be widley publicised.

Just checking NRES departure boards & YES :D they've gone back to how they where before the dreadful, smaller, slower ones they changed to a few months back. Please please tell me that they have returned for good? --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Update (10 mins later) - Damn...