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My previous thread on this topic has been closed, so here we go again. Today so far has seen the worst day yet in the recent decline in service on the route, with many trains being cancelled. Things had seemingly settled down again a while back after a dire period of cancellations, but the...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/lewes-derailment-thursday-13th-august.305792 I had thought that speed restrictions at track renewal sites were a thing of the past, with modern tamping and packing methodology. I'm sure I have travelled over many sites at line...

The BBC News web site has a story saying that, owing to hot weather, from 1200-1900 on Monday 3 August and Tuesday 4 August, Portsmouth line trains between Guildford and Waterloo will be diverted via Clandon. It doesn't say why, only for service 'resilience'.. Does anyone know the reason? RTT...

I often see railway equipment solar panels in positions which would seem to be sub-optimal. The attached photo shows one at my local station, Gomshall, and it is mounted vertically, under a large footbridge and facing roughly west. My question is - are such panels generally over-sized to...

The BBC has a story (illustrated with a Greater Anglia train - is it really so hard to find the right picture?!) about a new London Victoria to Gatwick Airport weekend working running out at 0340 on Saturdays and back at 0435 on Mondays (my bolds). It seems odd to have an outward working on...

Today at Guildford there were messages being shown on the platform screens urging people to take care as the tactiles had become uneven. Now, the irony is that the tactiles are there almost completely to assist visually impaired people, so displaying such a message is not much use to them...

An article on BBC News talks of the 700s having an exterior clean and work to make toilets more graffiti-resistant, costing £3.6m. Peter Hendy is quoted as saying it proves nationalisation puts passengers first, to paraphrase. I would have thought a train washer should be able to clean the...

Just curious - this was supposed to run today (a Network Rail test working) and it appears on RTT to have been timed at one point only - Guildford. Presumably a glitch, but not one I'm familiar with. Can anyone shed any light on it? The attached RTT extract shows a time (on time) at Guildford...

I have lost count of the number of major stations I have been to recently where all open-air platform lighting has been on permanently, in very bright ambient lighting conditions. Most recently I was at Bristol Temple Meads in brilliant sunshine and the platforms all had their lights on all day...

A query - yesterday I travelled to Bristol to meet a friend. The outward journey was excellent. The return was horrendous. We got to Temple Meads for the 1700 to London, which was cancelled. The 1729 was shown as running but the 1800 was also shown as cancelled. Then that changed to the...

I'm on a train friom Edinburgh to KX, which had a 26 minute delay near Morpeth when it stopped and it was announed that "some rubbish had wrapped around the train". A line block was taken to allow the driver to check and I saw him return along the 'six foot' to the cab with the remains of what...

I haven't seen a thread on this - I was at Chiswick today and the station footbridge is closed, with the main deck missing for refurbishment/replacement. The signs state that the works would run from 2 August to 15 September! The diversionary pedestrian route takes well over five minutes...

Today I was at Reading, wanting to travel to Dorking on the 1624 departure to Gatwick Airport. Passengers were told that, instead of the booked, and indicated, departure platform 5, it would leave from p13. This is quite a trek for those with luggage, children, etc. Arriving at p13, we found...

I was at Basingstoke and Woking stations on Friday and noticed that the platform lights at both kept switching on and off as the sun went behind clouds and emerged again. The light heads had pods on top which suggested light sensors. Are these all under test or have they been set deliberately...

I haven't noticed a thread on this, but if there is one perhaps it could be merged. It is common practice today to use tactile panels near platform edges to act as the yellow line behind which we are exhorted to stand, without a painted line. The yellow self-coloured plastic panels look...

Couldn't find this anywhere so if there is a thread already, could the moderators please merge? This is on the BBC news site today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20ej7rkj3ko GWR have been fined £1m in connection with the death of a woman who leaned out of a droplight and was killed...

This has caught my eye for tomorrow - described as pathed as a High Speed Train at 125mph, from Woking via North Downs line to Redhill, Tonbridge and on down through Kent to Ashford and reverse back round to Woking via Maidstone and Clapham Junction. Is the timing an error, I wonder, as I don't...

While watching a video I took in April 2024 of a steam working leaving Warnham for Horsham, I noticed something that I hadn't previously. The southbound starting signal at Warnham was cleared and the train departed, and the next signal south (four aspect) was showing green. As the train passed...

This week, with the closure of the Redhill to Tonbridge line, a freight working was shown on RTT as being diverted over the North Downs line from Tuesday to Friday (runs as required). In 13 years of living by the North Downs line (at Betchworth and now Gomshall), this is the first time that I...

I made a fairly simple trip yesterday from Gomshall to Fareham and back, via Guildford and Havant. Some notes from the day's rail experience: 1. The ticket seller/guard from Gomshall was unable to sell tickets because his phone was dead and he had no charger!! This seems to be an absolutely...