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We have had a recent discussion about new tramways following old on the same streets, but just how much of "traditional" tram tracks is still around and visible. Start with a couple :- - London, northern exit from Kingsway subway, including conduit slot. - Salford, Hessel Street, down the west...

Passing the Severn Valley yesterday, so had negotiated a diversion with the family, always a challenge. Set off from Kidderminster. "What's the next station we're coming into. Here's the timetable". "Duh ....". "OK, OK, look out of the window, you'll see the name. It begins with B". "Um ...

Brightline, America's deadliest railroad, has fallen into more hot water as the company faces bankruptcy with little respite in sight after the deaths of nearly 200 people. link here...

Mrs T got a new debit card, it is validated when you first use it with a PIN and the accompanying letter says this immediately invalidates the old card. Touched in with old card, into London, travelled around a bit, went to bank ATM, used new card with PIN. Now then, which card to use to go...

Announced today, 20 November, by the Mayor that the DLR will be funded for extension to Thamesmead in next week's budget...

I am wondering how the changeover from ATC to AWS on the Western Region in the mid-1970s was handled. It needed to be complete before HST service started on a route. Were all traction units converted to dual system, then the ground equipment was changed, then the old equipment on locos was...

Rather a media plug by presumably an Open Access PR person in The Independent extolling all the supposed disadvantages these poor operators are somehow subjected to financially, without mentioning any of the upsides...

Unexpected side-issue from the opening of the Silvertown Road Tunnel in April 2025 is the DLR will become free for the sections Island Gardens to Cutty Sark, and King George to Woolwich Arsenal...

News article about constant weekend closures on the Overground, this at Wandsworth Road, where in the last year it has been closed 25 out of 53 weekends, making it just untenable for regular usage (and for the tenant of the station cafe, which the article focuses on)...

Reported power cable worth £100k stolen at Bolton one week before energisation: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/high-voltage-cable-worth-100-000-stolen-sparking-new-year-rail-disruption-warning/ar-AA1wD99E?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=de247afdb2d04cbeb527af7e377d9b6e&ei=39 Presumably it...

At one of the deepest and busiest DLR stations, all escalators out of action for months now. Came through (and up and down the stairs) only last night...

Went down to a family event in Cardiff this last weekend. Despite knowing about the closure of Paddington on the Sunday, news of the diversion to Euston seemed to make it all practical. How unwise I was. Thus we set off from home, back a few stops on the DLR to Custom House station because that...

Apparently at Ahrensfelde, a suburban station north of Berlin and end of the S-Bahn S7 line, a diesel train, I am guessing one of the NEB railcar sets used on the peripheral RB25 line, was completely destroyed by fire. Video here:

The website railuk.info (nothing to do with here I think) was one of a limited number of sites which had competent detail on older locomotives. I've had a look around but it seems to have disappeared. Any ideas what has happened to it?

I don't often visit this particular forum, but here goes about last Sunday, 15 September. Having had elderly members of the family visiting, who had brought a huge, heavy and cumbersome bag with them which I had to handle, they were returning from Paddington to the West Country, booked on the...

Boarding at Lille for London, there seems a significant issue with passenger seating. Most such services are through from Brussels, possibly a half load from each, the Brussels passengers regularly reseat themselves into "empty" seats; arrive at Lille a considerable disruption as passengers...

I see today large notices up that services may be delayed/cancelled/do not travel, etc, because of "Hot Weather". At midsummers' day weekend. Who would have thought it. In London today it's maximum ... 23C. Among the nannying excuses were that overhead wires stretch and expand at high...

Noticed at Elizabeth Line Custom House, with a major exhibition at the adjacent Excel and substantial crowds expected (though not really happening), that the exit gates were opened, and staff shouting "Paper tickets walk straight through", which was coming over of course as "paper tickets WALK...

Discussion with (I believe aged late 30-something) colleague about sales staff time allocation in the (non-railway) office. Me: "There's these remaining hours down here". Him: "Yes, they're down to ... trade shows, client presentations, tenders ... um, what's a tender?". Me: "It's what goes...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/16-day-line-closure-at-hackney-downs-london-overground-suspension-and-waml-diversions-20th-jul-4th-aug.266346/ One wonders why LO cannot, at least, run between Chingford and Walthamstow Central, for the Underground, or even...