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So, driving down south from Hull today I took the A1 and found myself musing on all the intermodal containers thundering along on lorries. Before I knock myself out re-reading the freight RUS and googling all night, is anyone aware of good survey data for this container freight flow on the...

When I lived in Washington DC, there were constant accidents on their metro rail system involving collisions between trains or derailments (every few weeks, and certainly several times a year) . Some of these accidents were fatal, many were spectacular. All this on a rail system that is...

What examples do we have in the UK (and in Europe) of roads and railways using a co-aligned right of way? It seems to me like a good idea for getting new rail routes into major cities but I am not aware of examples in this country. Taking examples from (light) rail in the USA, one approach is...

In the opinion of forum members, what are the most under-developed rail corridors in the UK? By under-developed corridors, I mean those where there appears to be a high potential or suppressed demand that seems to be obscured by the quality of the railway (taking the track, stations, trains...

I have seen a Network Rail study into reopening an old alignment in which they model the fastest theoretical time that a passenger train could traverse the route. They appear to provide an upper ceiling based only on the inherent limitations imposed by curves and gradients and the capabilities...

To minimise bustitution, is it ever safe and practical for trains to run through temp single sections "nose to tail" like motorists passing temp traffic lights? Clearly sections either side of the single bit would need to be specially controlled for trains to be queued and cleared away, and...

Subject: Rail-capable construction/maintenance machines and mobile factories, UK and worldwide. It would be great to have a list. If you know of anything, please contribute below, ideally with links to more info. With the fragmented nature of railway construction contracts, and...

I believe it was not unusual for victorian stations to include handsome residential accommodation, presumably for the station master. What has become of this practice, and why is it no longer common? Would no employees find this attractive today, as part of a compensation package?

So I keep reading that NR is serious about converting the Southern region's third rail to AC OLE. The expense would be staggering, and with a network that is suboptimal in so many other ways (missing links, lack of passing places, flat junctions etc), it seems like a strange thing to be...

What conversion steps would be required before A class stock could run on third rail NR routes? Aren't there any DC electrified branch lines that could make very good use of some extra 75 mph sets to run in the peaks? The stock may be 50 years old, but there are plenty of much lighter...