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I travelled on the 22:28 train from Upminster to London Liverpool Street on 15/07/2026, I got on the second door of the front coach and straight away I noticed that the lighting was very poor, to my right there was no lighting at all up to the interconnecting door, please see attachment, to my...

With the Borders line now being electrified, I was thinking, has there been any other lines that have been previously closed, then reopened and electrified? I can only think of two others, firstly in London, Blackfriars to Farringdon via the Snow Hill tunnel, I do not think this line was ever...

I noticed that on the Keighley and Worth Valley railway there is a stretch of about a quarter of a mile of CWR, this is from the footbridge at Haworth Station to the points which connect the line to Haworth depot, this section of track is flat bottom rail, on concrete sleepers with Pandrol E...

BBC Radio 4 is currently running ten 15 minute programmes called "Derailed:The story of HS2", it is on air at 13:45, 14-18/07/2025 and 21-25/07/2025, the whole series is available now on BBC Sounds. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fv8b I have only listened to the first five episodes so...

There have been previous threads about this topic but they all seem to be closed down so I thought I would start a new one. I saw this on the Network Rail Media website:- https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/signal-upgrade-set-to-modernise-cornwalls-railway Also this on the GWR...

There was Transport Questions in the House of Commons today and one of the questions asked was from Rob Roberts who is a independent MP from Delyn to the Transport Minister Richard Holden which was "When will the North Wales line get electrified", the Transport Minister completely by passed the...

I know it was a long time ago and before my time I might add but does anybody know how the Shenfield Metro service was maintained when the Class 306 EMU's were converted from 1500V DC to 6.25/25KV AC. The changeover from DC to AC was over a weekend in November 1960, I think 5-6th, so were the...

Just a heads up about three programmes starting next week from 11-13/07/16 at 8pm on BBC4 called Trainspotting Live. Topics included over the three days are:- The Trail Of The Workhorse:-Class 66 Meeting with Sir Kenneth Grange, the designer of the Inter City 125 A feature on Clapham...

There is a one off documentry on BBC2 at 21:00 on 29/04/15 to find out if customers are getting value from the £8 Billion of fares and the £4 Billion of public money that goes into the rail industry every year, should be worth a watch.

This is a report that recommends 1500 V DC electrification of the GNER and the LMS from Crewe/Liverpool Lime Street to Carlisle in the 1930's, hope you find it interesting.:D http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_Elec001.pdf

There is a new four part series starting on Thursday 4th Dec at 20:00 on Channel 5:D

The first piece in the jigsaw, please see link. http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/News-Releases/Drop-in-session-for-Tufnell-Park-residents-to-find-out-more-about-Churchill-Road-footbridge-reconstr-2174.aspx

There is a three part series starting on 16th July at 21:00 about the Crossrail construction, please see link below:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04b7h1w Well it makes change from the World Cup!:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xgwMvsk1cu0

The first of twelve installments is on 29/8/13 at 20:00

I thought I would start a thread that could go on for many years, this what I saw on two trips, one to Oxford today and another to Cardiff about four weeks ago. East of Reading Station there are around 30 OHL masts erected including several portal structures. The northern half of Reading...

Does anybody know what improvments will be made to Wootton Bassett Junction under the Great Western Resignalling. As I'm sure most of you know that the Bristol Parkway turn off is only 70 mph and most trains have to slow down to take this route. I did see that Railtrack, yes remember them, once...

Does anybody know how efficient steam power is as regards to Diesel and Electric? We are told that an 25KV Electric train running costs are just under 50% of a Diesel train, also an Electric train running on 25KV costs 20% less than an electric train running on 750V 3rd rail, so how does 25KV...

There are two small articles on the GW Electrification on Railnews see links:- http://www.therailengineer.com/2012/12/06/the-devil-is-in-the-detail/ http://www.therailengineer.com/2012/12/04/electrifying-the-great-western-railway/ It states that they should reach Swansea by Easter 2018...

Have a look at this article http://www.therailengineer.com/2012/11/28/electrifying-liverpool-manchester/