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I’ve recently seen a video on YouTube that was filmed at Bescot in October 1992. It shows a northbound Class 150 arriving at the station with its destination stated as ‘Hednesford via Walsall’. I always thought that during the early years of the Chase Line after its reopening it was only served...

Does anyone know if there are currently any plans to introduce a regular service at the local stations on the East Coast Mainline in Northumberland? At the moment the local stations only get one train a day into Newcastle in the morning peak and one train a day back in the early evening...

Just had a look on the Centro website, and the only Metro expansion projects which it says are currently being developed are 3 relatively small city centre expansion: New Street - Centenary Square Bull Street - Adderley Street (Eastside park and ride) St Georges - Wolverhampton railway...

Has anyone got any idea as to what rolling stock will be used on the Chase Line once it has been electrified, and where will these EMU's come from? And will it be 323's or 350's that are used? My guess would be 323's because with the exception if the up platform at Hednesford, all platforms...

Traveled from Cannock to Birmingham and back today on the Chase Line and noticed that over last weekends blockade, the new points had been installed to the north of Walsall station in the Park Street tunnel to restore platform 3 back to a through platform. Is there any practical advantage...

Does anyone know what the major engineering work between Wolverhampton and Sandwell and Dudley is about over the Easter weekend? It must be major work if it's a total line shutdown.

The last few time I've traveled in the 4th coach on the 17:42 Birmingham New Street - Rugeley Trent Valley (the coach which doesn't fit into the platforms at stations north of Walsall), I've noticed a queue forming leading up to the rear set of doors on the 3rd coach of passenger waiting to...

An announcement has been made on the London Midland website that the annual leaf fall timetable that was due to come into effect on Sunday will not now happen and that the current timetable will continue till December. In other words, the central section from Four Oaks to Longbridge will...

Does anyone have a good idea what the actual diagrams are for London Midland's DMU fleet? I'm particularly interested in the 170/153's used on the Hereford/Shresbury/Rugeley to New Street services. I was also wondering if there are any specific services in need of lengthening due to...

When the Chase Line electrification announcement was made, the was talk in the local press about services from Birmingham to Liverpool using the line. Is this just a rumor or is it confirmed as fact? And will it just be LM services from Brum to Liverpool using the line, or will potential...

Here's a couple of things I've noticed recently about the way people behave on overcrowded trains and how you can tell experienced commuters from other travels. Firstly, on an evening peak train where almost all passengers board at a single principle station, regular commuters instinctively...

This is connected to the thread 'Trent Barton Press Statement after Passenger Raped after being kicked off Bus'. Without going into the details of the specific case, the Daily Mail said the incident happened on a night bus in the early hours of the morning. I thought that night buses...

Here's an idea that's just come into my head. Instead of building Birmingham Curzon Street as the Birmingham terminus for HS2, why not run HS2 trains into New Street (better for connection passengers) and create extra capacity at the station by moving existing services from it. This can...

I've been a regular user of the Chase Line since the mid 1990's and I've watched this former mineral railway develop over the years with new rolling stock, timetable changes, and I've been proven wrong on a prediction I made in 2000 that the line would be electrified by 2010. I was wondering...

It's been a few weeks now since 4 car trains first made an apearence on the Chase, and in my opinion it's been a success. I've seen a few passengers get up and move along the train as soon as the 'Due to the train configeration, the doors of the rear carriage of this service will not be...

Just out of interest, if the government were to place a bulk order to replace all 14x and 15x trains, how many 2 and 3 car 172's would be required?

Any updates on how work is progressing with the New Street redevelopment work?

Since a thread already exists for suggestions for new routes for the Manchester metrolink, I think it's only right that one exists for the Midland Metro. Be as imaginative or a realistic as you like when making suggestions. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- I'd like to start by...

Here's a few points I was thinking about; 1) Is it correct that the only reason the Birmingham Cross City Line was electrified was because of the 1990 Mid-Staffordshire by-election? 2) If the electrification had never taken place in the early 90's, do you think it would have happened at...

Out of curriosity from someone who lives in the area, does anyone have any details about exactly what type of freight is transported on the Sutton Park line these days; what is being transported, traction used, where its going from and to, how often it runs etc....... Also, I've been told...