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Hi all, I was just wondering if East Midlands Trains are strengthening any services with a Class 222 for the Grand National tomorrow. Unless I'm mistaken, I think they have been known to do this in previous years. Many thanks for any info!

Evening all. Since the implementation of GSM-R (and the earlier CSR), signal post telephones have been needed on fewer occasions, but are there still situations where they may still be used? After all, many are still in-situ; even in resignalled areas. A second question I have is are there any...

Hello all, I am aware that this has been discussed previously on the website, but I was just wondering if there is any possible way to ascertain what class of train will be operating a particular Eurostar journey. On the Eurostar website FAQ section for the e320, it mentions that they are unable...

At Manchester Vic today, I noticed a Northern class 144 in Platform 1. I have never seen a 144 anywhere near Manchester, or as a matter of fact, outside Yorkshire. This got me wondering, how rare an occurrence is this and does anyone know what it was doing here? I couldn't get the unit number...

My apologies if this has been discussed before, but I wasn't able to find anything. At Leeds station I noticed the attached sign referring to 'new paper tickets', and presumably the ticket gates cannot accept them. Unfortunately the photo is quite blurry, but they appear to clearly have a...

Evening everyone. I was just at Manchester Picc station and noticed that a large new departure board has been installed above the information desk. It is similar to the other boards in that it displays the next train departure to each destination, but uses LED's. I was just wondering about when...

This is a bit of a random question, but I was just curious :) Today on a Class 175 I noticed audio points (if that's what they're called) fitted to the armrests. How many 175's are fitted with these? I haven't seen them on any other 175 I have travelled on. They are obviously deactivated now...

Hi everyone, as you can see I'm new here so if this is in the wrong forum, please move it :D I was recently at Sale Metrolink station and whilst standing on the Manchester bound platform I encountered something I have never personally seen happen before, and I travel on the network most days...