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2Y76 21:36 Birmingham to Euston (22.04.25) This service seemed to run fine as far as Bletchley before turfing everyone off, running ECS to Euston, turning around, and running ECS to Northampton. For the poor folks left at Bletchley, there was an hour and 20 minute wait for the next train as it...

Leyton station step free upgrade is to commence this month Whilst it's long overdue, I can't help but feel the promised increase in capacity may be a little exaggerated. The station currently has 5 ticket barriers that more or less open onto the road bridge over the A12 and running lines...

I seem to recall that until fairly recently, only 2 of the 4 Chingford trains per hour stopped at Bethnal Green, and this was pretty much in order to allow the following fast cambridge/ely service a clearer path through Clapton/coppermill junction. It seems now that all 4 of the Chingford trains...

Travelling back from Broxbourne just now, I noticed that all trains to London were going via Stratford rather than Clapton. This was an interesting diversion, as I've not been round the junction from Platforms 11/12 at Stratford onto the GEML before. I assume this is down to engineering works...

As I was passing through Great Malvern today, I noticed that GWR are running trains to Cardiff from there. These trains usually go to Westbury and further afield. What was the reason for not doing so today, and further for choosing to terminate at Cardiff rather than Bristol?

Could anyone explain why this section of the Piccadilly (and before it, the District) line is four-tracked? I can see no obvious capacity benefit from a cursory look at the track maps over on carto metro.

I've noticed that westbound (ie towards Clapham Junction) overground trains seem to have very long dwell times at both Queens Road Peckham and Peckham Rye. Southern services seem not to, so I assume that this is something to do with pathing further down the South London line. I was wondering if...

So, this is really a very lightly thought out idea - so don't attack me too much. Assuming that the London-focused political ideal of absorbing many metro/suburban services into London Overground does not work out, but that the idea of at least having them somewhat integrated is still popular...

Stumbled across this on Youtube - thought some of you might find it interesting. It's around an hour long. Apologies if it's already been posted! Video is a documentary first aired by Channel 4 in February 1988 following the process of building the Class 91 locomotive from the perspective of...

I was exploring the update of of realtimetrains, and came across seemingly extra services from Liverpool St to Enfield Town at xx20/xx50 from around midday onwards. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/LST/to/HAC/2019-10-19/1135?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt Can anyone tell me when...

Anyone know what's going on? Lots of turnbacks at Crewe by VT and LNWR with Liverpool bound services.

I may be imagining things, but I could swear the frequency used to be every 30 mins with one an hour continuing to Swansea? Did this ever happen or am I totally losing it?

The Class 710 is due in service next year, and I have a few questions. 1) Does anyone have an idea roughly when we might start seeing them a) on tests, and b) in service? 2) There are 6 extra in order that the Watford DC Class 378s can be used on the rest of the network. It's been said that...

What's happened to SWT services from Waterloo to Bristol? I know they aren't frequent but hadn't realised they'd been dropped?

Pretty self explanatory. Tube counts too. Think my most useful one is the Highbury Victoria to Northern City Line. So handy! Bonus points if you can think of any soon-to-be cross platform changes that could be useful.

Bombardier's replacements for the Electrostar family are soon to be a fairly common sight around London and the South East. I've had a quick look but couldn't really find much in the way of comparison/similarity information about the two. I was wondering if anyone was aware of the design and...

It's oft mentioned that there is capacity in the tunnel for additional services - i.e the aborted DB ICE service to Germany. But what is the capacity limit, hypothetically? How many paths are there in an hour (taking into account the obvious restrictions of running the slower shuttle...

I'm sure this has been asked and answered elsewhere but I cannot for the life of me find it, so: I note that headcodes starting 9xxx are VT Voyager ("priority"!? what does that even mean?) and Eurostar moves. Why do VT use this? Secondly, I note that these headcodes only seem to be used on...

I noticed this at Paddington a few weeks ago - GWR seem to distinguish between local stoppers and their long distance services by using two running names. Great West Railway appears to be stopping services, with 'GWR service' used for intercity. I imagine that these are broken up along the...