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Today, Saturday, I was at Derby Station on Platform 6 and when I looked across to Pl.5, I saw the screens were showing a departure to Liverpool Lime Street at 1313. an announcement was made advising it would be 8 mins late. This was one of the diversions of Norwich - Liverpool services via...

Inside the main entrance to Stoke-on-Trent station, the ceiling above the booking hall and ticket gate area is being propped up by three separate banks of scaffolding, each of which are boxed in with wooden boarding. Is the entrance hall suffering from structural problems? It looks like the...

Yesterday, I saw a High Peak Solo leaving Derby on the 114 service to Ashbourne. I noticed that the legal lettering stated the bus belonged to Eric W Bowers Ltd. Seems High Peak like to hang on to these defunct operators names!

It seems almost everyting through Telford Central was cancelled this evening from around 1930 onwards. RTT lists all the cancellations as 'Due to a train fault' A friend of mine was attempting to travel from Telford to Shrewsbury and contacted me for advice, but I wasn't able to help, she opted...

The line to Skegness is closed this weekend (27/28 Apr) between Sleaford and Boston for engineering work, buses replace trains between those points. I have the misfortune to be returning from Skeggy on Sunday and in my experience the 1215 service to Nottingham is usually a popular departure. On...

It seems that next week, Monday 25 - Friday 29, XC have taken most of the Newcastle/York - Reading via Doncaster services out of the timetable but I can't find an explanation anywhere for this. Does anyone know why this has been done?

Today (Saturday) I was at Derby to get the 1229 EMR service to Sheffield. It was late arriving due to some trouble on the train and was further delayed at Derby whilst several BTP officers took witness contact details, it eventually departed at 1252. Whilst I was sitting on it, I saw the 1245 XC...

On Sunday last and Sunday next XC services on the NE/SW route were/are diverted once again between Derby and Birmingham via Lichfield. However, the Nottingham - Cardiff services are operating via Tamworth and then diverted via Whitacre and Coleshill to Water Orton. Is there any reason why...

A genuine question because I don't know the answer, I'm thinking of Voyagers and Meridians particularly, what is the reason why a call bleeper just won't stop? I travelled from Leicester to Derby this evening on an EMR 222 and the bleeper was sounding when I got on and was still going when I...

Can it be done? I was hoping to get down to Bournemouth on the weekend of the 6/7th. May but I understand there is major engineering work taking place. Will the line from Basingstoke be totally closed or will some trains be running - or diverted? Will replacement buses be involved? What sort...

Standing on the platform at Birmingham New Street awaiting my train, I heard an announcement that the 1907 Avanti service to Preston had been cancelled due to lack of train crew. An alternative was suggested which was barely audible but it said change at Crewe so I guess it was the 1934 WMT...

Apologies if this has been explained before but what exactly does the Unite strike entail? EMR are quite badly affected on Friday and Saturday (2nd and 3rd) with nothing running East of Nottingham on both days and several curtailments elsewhere. However, other TOCs don't even mention it on...

Does anyone know what was going on at Sheffield this afternoon with the following services? 1200 XC service from Edinburgh to Bristol held at SHF for 2 hours between 1600 and 1800 1309 XC service from Edinburgh to Plymouth held at SHF for 1 hour between 1700 and 1800 1543 EMR service to...

Yesterday (Wednesday 19th) I was at Grantham and an LNER 5-car 800 was stabled in the sidings all afternoon. Just curious about it, does LNER have a service which starts or terminates at Grantham or would it have been put in there as a failure in traffic? (Sorry, I didn't get the number)

The 0900 Leeds to Bristol XC service this morning (220022) departed on time but was terminated at Derby 146 mins. late. Apparently 'Problem with traction equipment' There were two bottlenecks where the delay accumulated considerably: between Masborough and Nunnery and between Dore South and...

The last two Cross Country services Northbound to Leeds on Saturday evening never reached their intended destination. The 1627 HST set from Plymouth was terminated at Birmingham due to no guard being available for the onward journey at 2003. The 2103 from Birmingham was terminated at Sheffield...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/hope-valley-capacity-scheme-updates.168285 I was sort of hoping that Dore Station Junction would be re-positioned further North under the scheme, perhaps in the area of Abbey Lane. The advantage would be that the turnouts would be...

Does anyone have the details of how many XC 2-car 170s have received an extra, centre car and what the numbers are? This week I travelled on a 3-car set and the centre car was numbered 56635, is this one of the strengthened sets?

Just curious about this, for the past couple of weekends, XC services between Derby and Birmingham have been diverted via Lichfield. However, this Saturday (5th March) services to the North East are starting at Derby with buses laid on all the way from Birmingham. If the stock comes from...

I will shortly be travelling from Derby to Leeds, outward on Saturday, return on Sunday. It's been suggested to me that it would be cheaper to buy a ticket from Derby to Huddersfield, rather than Leeds. Is this advice correct or would you be expected to take the branch train from Sheffield with...