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Hi all, I'm thinking about heading up to the footbridge just north of Chesterfield station tomorrow over lunchtime. As I've never been there before can anyone recommend somewhere to park please and what I'd be likely to see. In other words is it worth the hour plus drive! Cheers, in...

Just a quick question: is this officially closed, a freight only line or very limited passenger service please?

Some serious investment taking place along this route. However, it also has a serious problem with Japanese Knotweed! In places it encourages way over the trackbed and in between the rails. I'm sure that this is potentially a very serious problem as the root systems are notoriously hard to kill...

Earlier today I attempted to purchase a Freedom of the Northwest rover ticket at Leeds station. The woman on duty clearly had no idea what I was asking for. This isn't uncommon. Every year around the summer I take the inside of a week and buy a Rover Ticket and whoever and wherever I...

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What an excellent location for photography! On a curve with excellent viewing with long span electrification so no OLE getting in the way. Also a relatively good variety of traction from 91s/MK4s, EMUs, DMUs and freight.

just dumped in the south bay with 92032. There's regulary a 92 there having done a turn to DIRFT but 023 is a real bonus! 70008 makes a sneaky appearance in one of the shots.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-31971309 Fortunately the driver is OK. Presumably this was a 507 or 508 unit.

Looking rather smart I reckon. Just seen a few pics on Facebook.

Through Rugby about half an hour ago on an empty flats in Chiltern colours but no specific detailed vinyls. Presumably on a test run? I took several shots of it but no idea how to post them on to here.

A couple of weeks ago I saw 70010 run light through Rugby. I managed to take a couple of pictures of it. Having uploaded them onto my pc it looks distinctly like flames are visible amongst the smoke as it accelerated southbound. It wasn't something I spotted with the naked eye but was wondering...

What works are being done there exactly? They've been working on replacing the footbridge for more months than I care to remember and it's still not open! The island platform matrix signs are still not working and there are constant signs of workmen and associated diggers/containers etc but...

When the additional vehicles were originally ordered several years ago I thought all sets were to become 11 car sets. Is this not the case then?

This has been in the southern end of the bay siding at Rugby for over a week now! Anyone know why it appears to have just been dumped there?

I've been curious about this for a while now and having recently popped over to Toton on Sunday afternoon it raised my curiosity further. I'm sure most will know that there is a line of 24 stored 60s at the north east of Toton across the mainline tracks away from the depot. But there are also...

Last Friday (17th Oct), Saturday and yesterday I noted that a diagrammed pendolino has been replaced by a voyager on the Euston, Rugby, Coventry, B'ham International and New Street service. I've caught it a couple of times overview last few days with unsurprisingly serious over-crowding issues...

82129, 82145 and 3 other yellow network rail coaches propelled by ATW liveried 67003! A few minutes later the yellow banana hst roared through also going south!

With all the new electrified routes coming into play over the next few years (the spin off of which will almost certainly mean more lines getting ole) it strikes me as rather odd that we've sold off a load of 87s to Bulgaria and 86s to Hungary. Surely some use for them here could have been...

Having spent the last week on Anglesey I stumbled across some of the old Amlwch branch so I took my boys down on the line for a little investigation. To my pleasant surprise I noticed that the track bed was still down although most of the wooden sleepers are rotten. I understand that there are...

Forgive my memory but with all the talk of the 442s impending removal off the Gatwick Express I can't recall why the relatively new and purpose built 460s were taken off there - and where are they now?