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Several late and cancelled trains on the Manchester route this evening, including, apparently, the last Manchester-Euston at 21:15. NRE showing shortage of traincrew as the reason. The previous 20:15 left over half an hour late, it looks like its incoming Down train was cancelled so has...

I've just come across this page (New Civil Engineer) with information concerning the final HSE report on the collapse of the 'Tesco Tunnel' in 2005 which some may remember. It was big news at the time, and it was most fortunate that there wasn't a train inside the structure when the collapse...

Asking for a friend, who has been booked a ticket by their work (through an agent) for travel from the North West to Euston tomorrow morning. It's an off peak ticket but there's an itinerary and a reservation on a train approx 3 hours before the 'first off peak ' train shown in the pdf available...

I witnessed the following 'incident' while travelling on a train operated by TOC 'A', which departed from a station staffed by the same TOC. Before leaving, the conductor made multiple announcements regarding non-validity of TOC specific tickets issued for use on TOC 'B's trains. After...

I have managed to find the original proposals (from 1998) for the initial Manchester South remodelling/resignalling (see discussion in this thread) which clearly show the provision of 2 additional lines between Adswood Road and Cheadle Hulme, and the provision of a fifth line (bidirectional...

While passing through Crewe today I spotted that the roof trusses towards the north end of Platform 1 have been propped, and this section of platform blocked off. This is presumably the problem referred to in the recent 'hot weather' thread. 2 of the spans look like they are cast iron beams, so...

I've been following a few threads in the Disputes section recently, regarding people who have passed a ticket machine, possibly unknowingly, boarded their train, and run into difficulties during their journey. One of the local stations (in Northern-land) which I use occasionally has recently...

The similar bridge at Irlam was built with two spans, to allow for 4 tracks, though it was only ever double track. The 'in use' span had a PSR on it (of about 40 mph I think) back as far as the 1980s, or possibly even the 70s. In 1998, to allow for an increase in line speed this span was...