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The first part of what follows is what I’ve heard from others, and the second is an account of recent experiences by my wife and myself. I organise reunion events for people I was at school with. Earlier this year we had a lunch in central London, about five minutes’ walk from Bank Underground...

Going through old papers, I’ve come across A and Scholarship Level papers from the University of London Examinations Board in the subject British Constitution in 1960 and 1961. Here are a few questions that are relevant to our present circumstances. For A Level there were two papers each with...

Going through some old newspaper cuttings, I've found the attached report. It's from between October 1964 and June 1966, because another article (not shown) refers to Frank Cousins as the Minister for Technology, and it's probably from the Guardian which is what I regularly read at that time...

Moderator note : posts #1 - #3 originally in this thread: Class 345 progress | RailUK Forums (railforums.co.uk) Is that the fantastically expensive overhead with great chunky gantries that they had to put in and blow the budget because it would be so much better than any wiring they'd done...

I can't find a previous thread about this so I'll start a new one. SWR have now begun showing "due" instead of "expected" on platform displays. This is much less useful for passengers. If a train is timetabled to be at a station at 12.17 and that's the current time you know it's due, but if...

At Basingstoke today I caught the 15.50 from Waterloo. The PIS at Basingstoke displayed its destination as Maiden Newton and Salisbury. The list of stations it served ended with Yeovil Pen Mill, Maiden Newton. See attached photo. The recorded announcements (Phil Sayer's voice) said the same...

I’m hoping that someone can clarify the following question. On Saturday 19th May I have to make a return trip from Overton (Hampshire) to Manchester. Yesterday evening I booked a ticket through the South Western Railway website. For the outward journey all the trains it showed were Cross...

The BBC has used a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain statistics about the number of trains that miss scheduled stops. The link is below. I know I'm supposed to post the article itself, but it includes several photos and a video, and I don't know if I should include them as well. I...

The attached photo, taken at Manchester Airport on 11 August, shows platform clocks showing times that differ by 24 seconds. This seems enough to have the potential for a passenger who misses a train to complain about early departure, or early closing of the doors, though whether you'd succeed...

Yesterday I travelled on the 13.48 XC service from Basingstoke (originates from Bournemouth 12.45) to Birmingham New Street. The platform information screen showed the train "to Manchester Piccadilly, calling at Oxford, Banbury," etc. It didn't list Reading, where the train is scheduled to...

I wonder if anyone else has had an experience similar to mine this afternoon. I travelled on the 14.39 from London Waterloo to Basingstoke (the ultimate destination is Brockenhurst) which was formed of 450022. I was sitting in the rearmost row of seats in the front carriage. After I got off...

The latest newsletter form the Environmental Transport Association (ETA) announces Southern Crossrail. It’s a “very inexpensive” £5.9 billion scheme to build a link between Waterloo and Waterloo East, enabling trains to run through from South West London to destinations in the South East, and...

According to http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/new-future-for-the-south-west-trains-network-rail-alliance The SWT Network Rail Alliance is to be reshaped, retaining the joint teams that have been set up but with separate management for the future. Roger Ford’s version is that it...

That's how the display on platform 2 at Gatwick Airport described the 16.38 to London Victoria this afternoon. At Redhill the platform announcement said that at East Croydon and Clapham Junction passengers should alight from the front 12 coaches, as those stations had short platforms...

Can anyone explain this in simple terms? Page 6 of the June issue of Modern Railways says this is “industry slang for the system whereby NR borrows to pay for investment, the enhancements are then added to the Regulatory Asset Base (RAB), and the Regulator applies a rate of return on the RAB...

Is it possible to programme all the ticket barriers between one station and another (say Paddington to Reading) so that if a season ticket between those two stations is reported lost or stolen and someone else tries to use it, the barrier would either reject the ticket, or swallow it and not...