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I can't find in the usual places (Google, Wikipedia) any explanation as to why the Tonbridge Jubilee sidings are so named. Does anyone know when they opened, and therefore which monarch, and which Jubilee was being commemorated please?

Just an observation really… After I read about the above incident, I looked on OpenTrainTimes, and counted 23 trains in three different queues - Up Fast, Up Slow, and Up Hertford - at a stand with the front train only 30 or so minutes late. Just gives an idea of how full the southern end of the...

Following the fire near Glasgow Central station this week, it's got me thinking... a: the fire could have been so much worse, and might have caused the station to burn. Fortunately it didn't. b: the fire, when small, was un-put-out-able thanks partly to the lithium batteries in the vape shop...

Most trains on the network travel from A to B. Such trains may reverse here and there, but the purpose of the journey is to GET somewhere. This also includes shunts from one platform at A to another platform at A; or, in extemis, a shunt from one platform at A to a reversing siding, then back...

TfL state that accompanied children (ages 5-10) can travel for free on London Underground services. I use my Oyster to open the wide gates, and no-one seems to bat an eyelid when my child walks through with me. Does this also apply to a journey between St Pancras to Blackfriars (and...

This week's (2nd to 6th Feb 2026) engineering work north of Sheffield is causing the Cross-Country services to be diverted. Southbound, they go via Rotherham Central, Tinsley South Junction, and a reversal at Woodburn Junction, then Woodhouse and Beighton junctions. However, the line from...

There are a few, but not all that many, stations where a train has to pass a mid-platform signal, either on arriving, or on departing. OR where a train has to pass through one platform to reach another. There are operational issues with this - i.e. ensuring that the train doesn't stop in the...

I chanced upon this tour stabled in Windsor & Eton station yesterday, during its 3-hour layover. Top-n-tailed by West Coast class 47s. Was this a private charter, with no tickets on sale? If so, who was it for? (I'd gone railabout[1] given the cancellation of the South Wales Industrial...

I’ve been booked on the above tour since bookings opened. Email arrived yesterday from UK Railtours, tour cancelled. Assisting loco no longer available. Anyone else here affected?

3Z01 today 21st November: arrives Derby 1002H, departs 1700. While some freight trains dwell for a long time at known holding points such as Wembley Sidings or Acton Yard, this is the first time I've seen an ECS waiting for nearly 7 hours! It's the EMR Aurora train launch, in Derby platform 7...

Title says it all… Should be a yes/no answer, but I don’t know where to find it, so I’m asking here! Thanks…

The hourly Plymouth-Edinburgh service usually calls at Leeds. How late does it have to be, before the decision is taken to divert it, either via Doncaster or via the S&K (Pontefract Baghill) to make up time? I notice that 1V60 (Southbound) today was routed via Doncaster, after being delayed by...

Examples: Ambergate - the Matlock branch used to be the Midland main line to Manchester. Penwithers - the Cornwall main line was to Falmouth to meet the boats. Temple Hirst - the East Coast Main Line used to go to Selby. Others please? And the reasons behind the current layout?

I have been travelling York -> Derby and back once a week for nearly 2 years now. As of the May 2025 timetable change, my preferred southbound service (1V46) is now a 5-car instead of 8 or 9. (It's now scheduled to use Leeds platform 12C, rather than 12 - meaning an 8-car won't fit since it...

My child is currently 10 anna bit. When I set up an Oyster Photocard account, clicked on "Buy Oyster for someone else", and put in their date-of-birth, I was offered an "Age 5-10 Zip Oyster" (with a footnote to say that it expires on their next birthday). When will that change to me being...

Alfreton. Three syllables; the first one is "oll" (the vowel sound from "doll"); the second one is "frit" (short 'i'), and the third one is "un" - rhymes with "gun". So Alfreton should be spelt "Olfritun". Any other contenders for a similar vowel shift?

Why are no trains serving Darlington and Durham today, but there appear to be no possessions or engineering work on? Thanks...

The Passenger Information System automated announcement at Willington informs the waiting passengers that "First Class is at the Front/Rear(*) of the train". (* Delete as appropriate) For 1D53, the train I catch (**), It's wrong, more often than not. (**) - Pre-pandemic, this was every day...

Between Tottenham Hale and Clapton Junction, where the Temple Mills lines diverge towards Stratford. Thanks in advance.

1L96 (1920 Carmarthen to Paddington) failed (because of a seized gearbox, according to another forum) shortly before midnight last night, on the Up Main just after Twyford station. The passengers were evacuated. But the train is still there. Any ideas why it hasn't been moved? Halving the...