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Was making my way up to Piccadilly today from Victoria on the Link and was privy to a conversation betweem two tram drivers bemoaning the lack of training on the new single line working at St Peters Square and how dangerous they thought it was in its current state. Find that hard to believe...

Mod Note: at the time of writing cause of death has not been confirmed by the coronor, please post sensitively A guard based at Manchester Victoria died last Thursday at Leyland, Lancs, under an oncoming Virgin Trains service whilst on duty. This happened almost 5 years to the day when a...

Hi Guys Friend wants to know if they can go via Southport or Kirkby to get to Formby from Wigan. I guess that both routes are valid but just want to check! Cheers

http://www.northernrail.org/news/7496 I really don't know what to make of this. In one way, is it not insulting to the people of West Yorkshire that this card is only availble in that particular region? Does West Yorkshire have a much higher percentage of people with learning disabilities? Or...

Great news for all you pacer lovers. The 142 now has permanent booked work on this route. So if you fancy a 4 hour ride on one, now is the time to get it. The 142 is booked from Blackpool via the 0519 Preston-Carlisle, from which it's uncoupled at Barrow then its Coast jobs are 1010...

So, so sad to learn about the poor driver who died in his cab today at West Bank Hall Level Crossing. DSD GSM-R was activated and on receiving it, the signaller couldn't get any response back so an instruction was relayed to a driver coming the other way to investigate. The poor driver found...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDYsSETMQqM tDYsSETMQqM Never seen this before. Sensationalism or a matter of concern? You decide!

I have seen this 'banana' 150 buzzing around the Manchester and Southport area today. It was parked up in Manchester Victoria for a short while and I managed to get a brief look inside. You have to see it to believe it. The technology is amazing - it's like the Tardis! lol NR tend to be a bit...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2634087/Made-Chelsea-star-Jamie-Laing-arrested-refused-stop-using-mobile-phone-quiet-carriage-train.html?offset=200&max=100#comment-55014292 There are a lot of silly people who think you can be prosecuted for using a mobile phone in a quite zone on a train...

There has been a log train (Colas) parked up in sidings on the down Bolton just outside Bolton station for most of the day today. Does anybody know anything about it and what it was doing there and where was it going? Not often you see freight parked up there. (Between Bolton and Mosses Gate)

This I find very funny!

Hi folks. My young nephew has recently got himself a job near Cornbrook tram station. I was just wondering if TfGM do a season ticket for Wigan to Cornbrook tram station combining both train and tram. I do know that it is possible to combine such destinations. Perhaps a visit to a TfGM...

I don't know about you lot, but from what I have been reading about what is going on at these 4 crippled nuclear reactors in Japan, I really do fear for Japan and indeed, most of the Northern Hemisphere. There are quite a few nuclear scientists who are bricking themselves over the latest...

Good for him I say! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449710/Commuter-discovered-season-ticket-loophole-saved-700-year-wins-legal-battle-train-company-tried-GAG-him.html Apologies if this has been posted before but I can't see any thread relating to it

Funny incident in Manchester this morning with somebody going backwards instead of forwards when given the RA and smacking into a rear parked train. Anybody else come across this happening before? It's a first for me, that's for sure

You just have to laugh! Nice nostalgia though!

Sad to see them shut this week. Crow nest box in particular looks ghostly in the dark. The end of a generation :-(

I would be very interested to know the opinions of the regular posters on here regarding this. Do you consider them a good thing or a bad thing i.e to have one control room governing a massive chunk of the network. I'm no engineer but would they be vulnerable to an attack of some sort thus...

Anybody noticed these signs that have sprung up at the stations between Bolton and Salford Crescent? According to Northern, they're passenger information, even though they are situated on the end of the platform and angled towards the driver. That's rubbish, but can anybody have a guess as to...

I'm amazed somebody got away with this (image shows a Northern Rail DMU right up to the buffers at Manchester Piccadilly)