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Greetings folks, Recently, while I was on a network game, one of the players said they were aware of plans to dispense with the semaphores at Tondu and also to disconnect the lines which lead off from there in both directions with the area going over to control from Cardiff ROC. Anyone know if...

Greetings all, Anyone on this forum who has used Stevenage station, either regularly or occasionally, may have met a ginger and white cat named Nala who would perch on top of the ticket barriers at the station. Nala was quite the station celebrity attracting greetings and friendship from the...

Sounds like Bristol City Council might be about to do something sensible for a change (who'd have thought it?) and have announced plans to tender for new routes and improve existing ones which would be paid for by using the money raised from CAZ fines. The new routes will likely start in April...

Greetings all, I have recently acquired for my collection signal notice 15G which was for Birmingham New Street MAS Stages 1A to 1C. As part of Stage 1C the box at Galton Junction, previously closed 06/1964, was returned to use to control the ex. WR line between Stourbridge and Birmingham Snow...

Greetings all, Apologies if this has been asked on the forum before although I can't find it. I have just been watching the 1988 "Night Mail" advert for the first time in quite a while and am wondering where some of the locations are. For anybody who has - by chance - never seen the...

Mod note: Split from the First General Discussion thread Regarding First Solent (Portsmouth) the registrations today for bus services in the Western Traffic Area include cancellation of Portsmouth services 13, 14, 22 and 25 wef 30-Jul-2023...

Greetings, It may be of interest to any of our members in the area that Network Rail are developing proposals to bring passengers services back to the Southampton - Marchwood - Hythe line following the award of funding. A consultation is in progress which runs from today (Monday 08th August)...

Hi all, I think I am posting this in the right place. I am trying to put together a SimSig timetable for Sunday 08th May based around quite a few engineering works. I so far have 200 trains written in but I am a bit stuck with a couple of things relating to the Tattenham Corner & Caterham...

Greetings, While en-route to work on, IIRC, Friday 01st April (it may have been Thursday 31st March) I saw a single-deck bus on the back of what I think may have been a breakdown truck. If I saw correctly, albeit only for a second or two, the bus had vinyls on to suggest it was electric. I was...

Hi all, While en-route to Southampton on Thursday 30th December I passed three buses on the A34 between Chieveley and Highclere which were painted mostly green but with brown backs. I think they were Yutong E12 Electrics. I was heading southbound but the buses were heading north so I didn't get...

Evening all, Came across this on Twitter this morning from Transport for Wales: you shouldn't need a Twitter login to read the post and the article. https://twitter.com/transport_wales/status/1419587294269296640 HTIOI, Dave

Greetings all, I have a diagram showing the layout of Panels 1 and 2 of the Woking Signalling Area. However the plan does not show which parts are worked by Panel 1 and which parts are worked by Panel 2. Given the picture I have I presume the following to be correct: - Panel 1: Wimbledon...

Evening all, Rather far ahead I know but I had my attention drawn on Facebook earlier to the fact that Network Rail have said in their Timetable Planning Rules (TPR) for Scotland that, come 2022, an additional entry in the rules - which can be downloaded at...

Hi, On Sundays what is the standard traction for the Brighton to Hove shuttles operated by Southern (2Nxx)? I am trying to do a TT for a railway simulation and am in slight confusion: the Network Rail WTT says the timing load is 375s and OpenTrainTimes says EMU at 100mph but I thought Class...

Evening all, I hope that this post finds you and yours coping as well as possible given the times we are in. I am currently working on a SimSig timetable for the Three Bridges ASC area: it is built around the real-life scenario of a large engineering block which closes the fast lines...

Evening all, I hope this message finds you well and coping as best as possible given the current circumstances. I am after some information relevant to construction of a SimSig timetable. At present there is a morning ECS working - 5P51 (0706 Exeter New Yard - Exeter St. Davids) -...

Greetings all, I have noticed that RealTimeTrains includes, for the new May timetable (should things go ahead as planned), a considerable number trains operated by Southern between Milton Keynes and East Croydon which allows Southern to venture what is, I think, the unfamiliar territory of the...

Greetings all, To aid the creation of a SimSig timetable for the Three Bridges ASC sim - and I apologise if this is a daft question but I have never been through the area so I have no idea - please could someone tell me the following: - are train formations for services between Gatwick and...

Greetings all, While at Bristol Parkway this morning I noticed that a book was for sale at the ticket desk. It is a guide to services and has been issued by GWR. The book, which is - I think - a one-off and is dedicated to the memory of former GWR train planner Roger Watkins who died in October...

Evening all, Whilst I know that daytime journeys between Exeter and Barnstaple are booked as 3-car Class 158 DMUs - and are pathed as such on RealTimeTrains - the evening journeys on RTT are pathed as Class 150. The WTT which is downloadable from Network Rail as them as 158s. Are they supposed...