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...and about time too. Council to discuss lifting of tracks, according to BBC here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-35457924

In amongst all the information in the Hendy Report, on the ECML section (page 17) there is this 'one liner': "Works on the approach to King’s Cross to provide additional track into the station" Is this definitely a track though one or both of the existing disused tunnels, and was it ever...

A December 17th TfL board paper has stated a preference for the Old Kent Road option for extending the Bakerloo, but only as far as Lewisham initially: Section 6 on page 38 to make it easier to find...

I gave Apple Pay a try yesterday, it worked exactly as I expected at the gatelines. As I also expected, no monetary value was shown against the transaction on the phone screen, because as we know this is calculated overnight and billed at that time. So by this morning the phone screen showed...

Have any other TOCs tried this? (A338 is the main road in and out of Bournemouth)

Just spent a few minutes playing with NRES for fares to the two Yeovil stations following the December timetable change, and so far it seems a bit of a nightmare waiting to happen. There seems to be a Yeovil Stations destination for the planner's purposes, but no logic to the actual fares...

Another attempt to solve the Camden Town capacity problems (a pre-requisite for the eventual splitting of the Northern Line into two separate routes):

Supposed to start tomorrow, from what I heard a couple of weeks ago. I thought maybe a thread to record people's observations or discoveries? Internal PIS displays on a 444 I was on today were flashing 'Coach 3 of 5' alongside the time of day this afternoon. Didn't see how it worked...

Some civils contract details have appeared in OJEU: From theconstructionindex here: http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/hs2-civils-contract-notice-published I wonder if StopHS2 will be commenting...

Does anyone have an idea what the purpose of this new length of track will be, it's currently isolated from the rest of the sidings, but sited on a newly laid concrete pad about 30-40m long, with a short gap in the middle of the rails. I was thinking some sort of new weighbridge perhaps...

I thought Romilly's idea could do with a thread to itself... On the basis that the idea is to regularise something that has already happened, or should have happened, how about a 'Retrospective Fare'?

Mod Note: This thread has been split from another thread which can be found here. Is this going to be the best place to discuss the latest plans though? Perhaps an earlier thread should be reopened... But in the meantime, this is quite a significant bit of news. The key thing is that they...

new instructions to the select committee on issues to deal with are being confirmed in parliament today, amongst which are these three: Good to see them getting down to the details. Seems odd we still get so many posts from people who don't believe it should happen at all...

The Scotrail franchise agreement here: http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/system/files/documents/tsc-basic-pages/Redacted%20Franchise%20Agreement%20-%20CU%20version.pdf (This is also being discussed in another thread with an emphasis on DMU reductions.) It suggests in table 1 (page 21)...

Are these signals now becoming generally obsolescent? I remember them being removed from the Southampton station area a couple of years back, now at least three of the SPADIs visible from the platform at Eastleigh have been bagged up during the course of this week. Is there a systematic...

Modern Railways readers will have seen this by now, but were people generally aware of the possibility of LM being divided up into a West Midlands local operator and a separate WCML(south) local operator, with Euston - Crewe and Birmingham - Liverpool being rolled up into the main West Coast...

With the full roll out tomorrow (16th Sept) of Contactless payment in the zones, on both tube and National Rail, here's the ATOC instructions added to the National Rail web site: Goes on to explain card clash etc, weekly capping, max cash fares etc etc.

Caught the usual 159 from Fareham up to Southampton this morning (the one that arrives about 1040 and used to run through to Salisbury) and it seems since May it no longer joins up with that hour's Romsey - Salisbury to run as a five car train up to Salisbury. I see RTT shows this is 'as per...

This happened quite a few weeks ago, but I think the train crew were wrong in their advice. I'm travelling on the return portion of an Eastleigh to Reading off-peak day return. The train manager clips my ticket after Basingstoke and in doing so suggests I "change at Parkway". I reply, no...

...announced yesterday, within this DfT statement: Reads as though this will be in addition to those already listed in the CP5 enhancement delivery plans, so I guess there'll be a new list of stations to be given the works in the next edition of the plan...