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As you are probably all aware, we know what’s happening with the WCP franchise and that eventually, those of us working on the WCML will end up on HS2. But in what capacity? Presumably a Euston driver will be doing as now, a Liverpool, a Manchester etc, but what’s the plan with the...

In the weekly ops notices, there's mention of some works at New St station in connection with stage 7 of the resignalling. Now IIRC this is the biggie, taking control of the station area signalling. Thought this wasn't starting for a while, so I presume that it's either the early steps for the...

Are there any routes on the East Side that could make potential use of the 769 unit? Seeing as there's a ton of speculation it makes sense to bring the wrong side of the Pennines into the equation too!

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/business/2018/06/22/alstom-looks-to-cut-up-to-200-jobs-from-pendolino-train-care-sites/

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/29/millions-of-trees-at-risk-in-secretive-network-rail-felling-programme Story in the guardian basically reporting that that NR is chopping a lot of trees on its routes to combat leaf fall. Lots of concerned comments as you can guess Must admit...

Nothing currently running in and out of Lime St due to OLE damage found to existing structures.

Not seen anything on here about the impending changes to the North Wales Mainline, so might be a good place to put it on here. Bi-Di signals are starting to appear just outside Flint now, as are a number of new signals between Rockcliffe and Abergele. Also there's the changes to signalling out...

After reading the 5 new stations opening, inevitably there's a lot of posts saying "why wasn't X opened?" A lot of stations have been proposed over the years in the Metro Mayor areas. Especially Merseyside. On the speed of the announcements in the past this will take 100s of years to bear...

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/southern-rail-network-gibb-report The Gibb report into the Southern issues has been published today. Supposedly held back for 6 months, it blames Union strike activity and staff not wanting to work every hour God sends. Now considering this is a...

I've got a question about signalboxes that aren't block posts. I sign to Holyhead and anyone who knows the route will know there's a big block section between Valley and Gaerwen. Ty Croes is handily situated inbetween these two but isn't a block post. My question is why not? It looks like a box...

There's a lot of speculation in the press about the future of Fidlers Feery Power Station with the owners losing contracts and closing large parts of it. If it were to fully close it would leave a big question mark over the future of the line serving it. No doubt this would be a very useful...

Apologies if this has already been posted, seems to be cropping up on a few sites that WCRC has to suspend its operations on Network Rail metals. To do with the Tangmere Spad. Applies from tonight.