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Hello All A plug for the annual Rail Staff Carol Service which is (as usual) at St. Mary's Church Somers Town on Eversholt Street, London (NW1 1BN), which runs along the Eastern side of London's Euston station. It is at 12:30 (pm) on Thursday 18th December 2025. This year's service is the one...

I’ve just passed Hadley Tunnel South, between Potters Bar and Finsbury Park and I have noticed a series of posts around a metre high (perhaps a bit more) with what appear to be blue or red coloured balls on the top. The ones I noticed were adjacent to the Down Slow line just South of the tunnel...

Unusually, the Up Yard Sidings adjacent to Welwyn Garden City played host to Stanier 5MT (Black 5) 45212 overnight from Sunday 4th May 2025 into Monday 5th May 2025. It arrived from King's Cross at around 1750 with 5Z46 empty West Coast Railway Company (WCRC) Mark 2 Air Conditioned Charter set...

This morning, 700060 working 2C17 0826 Cambridge - King's Cross seemed to think it was a 12 car, with the Passenger Information System (PIS) screens in coach three from the front saying that I was in coach 7 of 12! I presume this means that rather than being hard coded on the fixed formation...

I walked along Gibbins Road yesterday evening, adjacent to Stratford Station (close to the new entrance adjacent to the Jubilee line platforms). In the last week or so, a Mark 2b or 2c carriage (TSO) has appeared here, placed on a short section of track at 90 degrees to the road with what...

Hello All. This is a bit a of a long-shot. Does anyone know where I could possibly source one or two replacement white (linen I think) covers for a BR Mark 2 (up to Mark 2E) first class seat head rest cushion as depicted in the image below? I located the image on this excellent site...

If you are interested in helping to plan the future of London Underground services, TfL have a vacancy for the position of Principal Transport Planner (Band 3) in the Train Service Planning team (London Underground), which is within the Public Transport Service Planning Directorate. Full...

Earlier today, I took 2C17 0826 Cambridge to King's Cross from Welwyn Garden City (at 09:21). I witnessed an argument between a passenger and the staff member at the gate line. The person had an £14.30 Off Peak Day Return to Finsbury Park and was arguing with the staff member about the validity...

One of the battery locos L51 has joined the collection of Pride liveried rolling stock operating across London's Rail Network. This is an interesting choice given that these locos spend most of their time out of the public eye. I've attempted to attach a photo - hopefully correctly (not mine -...

If you are interested in helping to plan the future of London's rail services, TfL have vacancies for the position of Principal Transport Planner (Band 3) and for the position of Transport Planner (Band 2) in the Train Service Planning team (London Underground), which is within the Public...

An observation of a questionable routing choice last night prompts me to ask whether the Automated Route Setting (ARS) on the Southern part of the ECML between King's Cross and Stevenage has been altered as part of the switch over of signalling control from King's Cross Power Signal Box (PSB) to...

Hi All. Can anyone here advise what travel concessions are available to TRPS members on the Talyllyn Railway itself and (I think) the reciprocal arrangements with the Ffestiniog, Welsh Highland (Porthmadog to Canaervon) and Bala lake railways? Particularly, are these concessions also available...

If you are interested in helping to plan the future of London's rail services, TfL have two vacancies for the position of Transport Planner in both the Train Service Planning (London Underground) and Rail Development (Overground and other TfL National Railway services, DLR, Trams) teams - within...

Hello All A plug for the annual Rail Staff Carol Service which is (as usual) at St. Mary's Church Somers Town on Eversholt Street, which runs along the Eastern side of London's Euston station. It is at 12:30 (pm) tomorrow Thursday 19th December 2019. It is always a nice occasion including...

An interesting and alarming incident with a level crossing clearing to road traffic as a train approached is to be investigated by the RAIB... Details here...

If you are interested in helping plan the future of London's rail services, TfL have two vacancies for the position of Transport Planner in both the Train Service Planning (London Underground) and Rail Development (Overground and other TfL National Railway services, DLR, Trams) teams - within...

At the weekend I travelled from Welwyn Garden City to Westbury. I was surprised to be offered an 'Off Peak' ticket starting from WGC for the 1C91 1733 London Paddington to Paignton (https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C20364/2019-11-15/detailed), even though such tickets were not available...

Like many medium sized commuter stations, Welwyn Garden City has poor vertical capacity and it can take over three minutes for all the passengers who alight from the busiest trains to leave the platforms and reach the top of the footbridge. For the most part, the ticket gates have to be open for...

[Note - Split from this thread] I posted to another thread a comment about the demand for travel on Boxing Day. As this thread is specifically about Boxing Day services, it may be worth repeating here, apologies to those who have already seen much of this. In London at least, the number of...

Hello - I have an annual season ticket from Welwyn Garden City to London Terminals (not Travelcard or Gold Card) and travelled to East Croydon with my family at the weekend. Could I have had the family railcard discount applied to a Saint Pancras to East Croydon ticket bought at Welwyn Garden...