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Signalling problems between Blackburn and Bolton resulted in there being delays of an hour or more during this morning's rush hour and no trains at all since soon after 10am. NRE doesn't go into any detail but is saying the problem won't be fixed until 1730. Real Time Trains seems to be...

I've just spent the last half hour trying to figure out from the Routing Guides what the permitted routes are between Darwen (DWN) in Lancashire and Leeds - and now my head hurts! Is a ticket (route Any Permitted) from DWN to LDS valid via Manchester or not? Darwen has both Blackburn and...

Sorry, another of those 'what is this odd working' questions! (But not an RHTT! :wink:) The train in question ran late Sunday night (01/09) and the early hours of Monday morning. I'm assuming it was a Measurement Train working of some description, although I don't know if it was the...

Earlier this afternoon I watched from the kitchen window as a team of suitably high-viz wearing gentlemen and their lookouts walked along the trackside (in the cess), stopping at regular intervals to use the theodolite and measuring stick. Judging by the train horns I could hear for some time...

Spotted this in the Railway Herald: Why are GBRf so short of motive power that they need to do this again? (I know there was a thread when Royal Scots Grey went on hire to do some freight work somewhere in the Northeast last year, but I'm damned if I can find it!)

Just seen this on NRE: Route affected Routes to and from London Waterloo Train operator affected South West Trains; Description A rail defect has been identified between London Waterloo and Vauxhall. Because of this, emergency engineering work has been...

What went wrong with The Winter Settler railtour this morning - does anyone know? According to Realtime Trains it started from Bristol Parkway rather than Temple Meads 102 minutes late due to the late arrival of the inbound ECS. http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U51835/2013/02/09/advanced...