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When a railway company built a bridge over a pre-existing railway line, presumably (in at least some cases) closures of the lower line were required to facilitate construction? How was this arranged when the older line belonged to a competing company, who had motive to make life difficult for...

Thinking about the soon-to-be-bustituted West Ealing to West Ruislip service got be wondering how many other services there are that start and finish at stations with the same geographical term in their name?

On Thursday I plan to take a train from London to Bletchley and then later the same day return to London from Fenny Stratford. I don't have any railcards (I've got one on order but it's very unlikely to arrive in time). Would a return to Fenny Stratford allow me to exit at Bletchley on the...

Have there been any trains named for or by bands or musicians? (The genesis for this question was a predictive text game prompt "I would like to apologise..." which my phone completed with "to all the other trains named by a manufactured boy band"!)

At some point (not this year) I intend to, within a 12 month period, travel on/behind at least one of every class of train that operates a regularly scheduled National Rail passenger service (i.e. not charters, specials, London Underground, etc). Would it be theoretically possible to achieve...

In post #286 of the Kirkby derailment thread @357 posted a video of a combined hydraulic/friction buffer stop test. There is a collection of videos of various different types of stops being tested at https://hydeparknow.uk/2020/06/24/buffer-crash-tests-1/ and...

IanVisits is reporting https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/03/19/major-upgrade-planned-for-lewisham-railway-station/

In a conversation elsewhere the subject of heaviest trains came up. I think its the stone trains from the Mendips to Acton that are the heaviest on the network, certainly in terms of total consist weight, but am I correct? The other person is convinced that the nuclear flask trains are the...

The BBC has an article that TfW have broken Welsh language rules in at least six ways. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51011565 The Welsh Language Commissioner's draft report apparently highlights the following: Most of them seem to me to be completely (or reasonably completely) within the...

Is there a ticket that can be purchased in advance that allows travel to Gravesend from either Greenwich or Lewisham and then (same day, this Friday) return from Gravesend to either of those stations? I don't have a fixed travel time, and both Lewisham and Greenwich are as easy to get to as the...

The RAIB have published a news story on their website stating they have carried out a preliminary investigation into passengers self-detraining from a London Overground* train between Shepherd's Bush and Willesden Junction. They will publish a safety digest into the incident "in the next few...

I happened to see Class 90 90009 the other day and it got me wondering how many other palindromic locos/units are currently in service?

Last night my partner and I travelled back home from Yorkshire to London. The first leg of the journey (19:52 Cononley to Leeds) arrived into Leeds 12 minutes late at 20:44 which meant that our connecting train, the 20:45 to King's Cross departed before we could reach it. This meant that...

When trying to quote this post (#366 in the Trespass incident at Manchester Piccadilly (11/03) thread) I get an error saying that I must enter a message with more than 5 characters, despite having written a couple of paragraphs in response which posted fine when I removed the quote.

How easy would it be to develop an app that displayed (and/or spoke) messages in a given language on your own device when prompted to do so by a signal from the train? Obviously it would only work with pre-recorded announcements but no other mutli-lingual solution would do any different unless...

The RAIB have today (21 Feb 2018) announced they are investigating the loss of temporary speed restriction information on drivers' in-cab displays.

A train hit the buffers at Richmond station in Sydney, Australia today injuring about 16 people, some seriously. The driver was one of the injured but how severely was not clear. It seems that the train hit at significant speed, estimated by one witness in the platform as "50 to 70 kilometres...

Today I caught the VTEC 13:05 from King's Cross to Leeds, which arrived 22 minutes late. This meant I missed my connection to Cononley (15:26 Northern to Cononley) so I caught the 15:56 instead. Had my second train been on time I would have arrived 29 minutes late, but in the event it was...

Does it work like on the roads, where the party at fault (or their insurers) pay for the damage they cause? e.g. if TOC A's train SPADS and hits TOC's B's train, does TOC A pay for the damage to both trains? Or is it rosco that foots the bill? If a train derails due to badly maintained track...

One of the comments on the thread about Virgin's 4-trains running in parallel publicity stunt got me wondering. How many consecutive trains could you run from York to London if the motive power for each train had to be a different class of loco/multiple unit? Each class used must have hauled...