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The issue of access to the platforms of Nottingham station from the footbridge is back on the agenda again. In addition to no access to platforms after 7pm on weekdays, there will be no access on weekends from 6th February...

East Midlands Railway is once again introducing restrictions to access to platforms from the centre footbridge from Monday 18th August. There will be no access to platforms from the footbridge from 7pm to 6am daily, extending the current restrictions from 11pm to 5am...

There’s a report in this week’s Sunday Times suggesting there’s unlikely to be any funding for new railway infrastructure upgrades beyond the three schemes below until after the next election. Although not mentioned, further electrification of the Midland Main Line now looks at risk...

East Midlands Railway is making changes to the layout of Nottingham station from Monday 28th October. It won’t be possible to access the platforms 1-6 of Nottingham station from the passenger footbridge as EMR trials new measures to stop fare evasion...

This week's Sunday Times carries an interview with the CEO of Virgin Group Josh Bayliss who says Virgin is looking to return to the UK railways as an Open Access operator: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-virgin-is-going-back-into-trains-by-bransons-right-hand-man-kvjl60c3b Services to...

Passing through Clapham Junction this evening, I noticed new departure boards are being installed at the foot of the stairs from the tunnel to the platforms. There's also been some activity in the long closed retail units in the tunnel which seem to be used for equipment for these works...

Lisa Nandy MP for Wigan has claimed during Prime Minister's Questions that she has received leaked e-mails from within the Department for Transport concerning rail in the North. These e-mails describe certain Northern routes as "valueless" and discuss whether to propagate myths to distract from...

A dedicated microsite has now been launched for the Derby resignalling project which takes place between 22 July and 7 October this year: https://www.derby2018.co.uk

Nottinghamshire County Council and the Nottingham Post have launched a campaign for the line speed improvements identified for the MML outside of electrification to go ahead. The petition can be signed below: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/106323 I'm not sure about the claim...

The Financial Times is reporting that Network Rail has appointed Rothschild to examine options for its property portfolio (excluding stations) to be sold or redeveloped: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/84288e2e-4268-11e5-b98b-87c7270955cf.html

Another rail announcement buried in today's Budget: The Govt is to review possible infrastructure improvements on the Brighton Main Line and revisit the feasibility of the 2nd Brighton Main Line...

Passing through Clapham Junction station recently I saw a lady approaching numerous passengers and recounting her terribly unfortunate tale of how she was stranded and all she needed was a mere £6 to reach her final destination. If only someone passing through Clapham Junction at rush hour...

This campaign was launched a couple of months ago, but was in the news again today. There is a campaign to extend the Robin Hood line to Edwinstowe & Ollerton, something which has been discussed here in years past. http://www.robinhoodline.co.uk/

This afternoon I travelled on the 17:37 East Midlands Trains service from Nottingham to London St Pancras. This is a journey I have done every other Sunday for the past six weeks. On each occasion there was no on board catering due to service failures by Rail Gourmet - something always made...

I was in Nottingham at the weekend, and after months of the station being surrounded by scaffolding, I could finally see the progress in remodelling the station. The scaffolding has now been taken down and the station exterior looks so much better. Walking out of the station through the...

Network Rail has confirmed that the work to resignal Nottingham station will take place next year, with substantial changes to timetables in the period 20 July - 20 August 2013. The work has stopped short of a complete closure of the station for over four weeks which was originally mooted...

Pleased to see that this is going ahead and Nottingham is getting investment. Though, I'm a little concerned that it appears that the long overdue work on resignalling won't be done until 2014. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-11465495

Today is the third day in a week that my planned train home from Birmingham to Nottingham has been cancelled due a shortage of drivers. The 17.49 departure was cancelled last Friday (though we were told it was a train fault and that a fitter was looking at it) and yesterday. The 17.19 was...

Apologies if this has been covered before (I did search). I regularly travel from Nottingham to Birmingham and this journey seems to take longer and longer due to excessive sitting time at Derby station. For example, last year the 07.10 from Nottingham to Cardiff was moved to an earlier...