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Hi everyone, There was a fire last week in 'an industrial unit next to the railway' in Slough. That building was part of the Network Rail maintenance depot. Quite the blaze. There are plans being made for a complete new building no great surprise...

Hi, I'm currently sat on a train in a queue behind a line closure for trespassers. The driver has said it's "not looking like a good day" and that there "is a trespasser who is refusing to move" on the tracks ahead and that the tracks are closed. Looking at OTT it shows there is a substantial...

Hi everyone, There is work being undertaken to establish whether level boarding can be provided to the Elizabeth Line at the new Old Oak Common station. If you are interested, there's a PWI talk about it happening on 4th Feb in Reading (and also broadcast online)...

Hi, Yesterday, (Wed 17th December), the Hertford East branch was closed following, depending on which source you read, "a burst water main", "a burst water pipe" or similar. The railway is expected to remain closed till at least the end of Friday. It's not a water main that's burst,, it's a...

Back in July, a simulated major incident excercise was held to help emergency services and rail staff ensure they are better prepared, should a real event happen. Greater Anglia have published a video about it on YT. It's unlisted, as its primary audience is people in the industry. Enjoy...

Some great work by GWR here: https://railinsider.co.uk/2022/08/01/lioness-magnificent-victory-celebrated-on-the-side-of-a-train/ 1659369879 And the first comment comes from my wife: "The women got so fed up of waiting for the men to bring it home they went and did it themselves." :D Massive...

A spanish Ouigo train has brought down the OLE in a quite impressive way! https://www.railfactor.com/news/pantograph-got-caught-in-catenary-and-got-entangled-while-being-dragged-in-spain Also some other photos from linkedin...

I've seen a few news articles about a new alert service on whatsapp from national rail: https://www.railway-technology.com/news/national-rail-whatsapp-service/ It also includes some freebies being given away apparently, in a short list of stations which include Swindon, my home town, hence...

A new cross-industry publicity campaign launched today, encouraging people to get back on the railways again. TV advert: This is linked to the twitter hashtag #LetsGetBackOnTrack https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LetsGetBackOnTrack&src=typed_query I was part of a group that saw the TV advert a...

Hi everyone, I was sorting through some of my old photos today and came across the set that I took back in 2002 when I was working on the construction of CTRL (now HS1). So, an interesting piece of info for you - Did you know that there is a statue of Mary in the tunnel wall at each end of...

Hi everyone, Network Rail has recently launched a new instagram channel and staff are being encouraged to post up interesting pictures of the railway network and the works going on, within certain guidelines of course! Keep an eye on it for some good stuff...

Hi everyone, Swindon station has long had a footbridge going from the London end of platform 1/3, over the platform 1 track to the middle of an overgrown area of no use. I've heard this was early works for a car park that was never built and the bridge never saw any actual use, but I'm not...

Hi everyone, There's been a fatality somewhere between Swindon and Wooton Basset. I'm on one of the first trains in the queue. National Rail says: Thus, it's looking pretty major. OTOH, we've just been told on the train that they are hoping to re-open within the next 30 mins. Does...

Hi everyone, Major signalling problems have closed the railway completely at Swindon this morning. Busses are being laid on instead! It's just been updated (in the last 10 mins) to say some trains are on the move but a reduced service is operating and some routes are still suspended...

Hi guys and gals, Does anyone know how much a pendolino costs? More specifically, does anyone the cost of pendolino that was written off in the grayrigg crash? I'm doing a lecture on S&C, and am using the failure of the Grayrigg S&C as an example of what can happen when it goes wrong. I...

Hi, I've installed simsig under wine on my laptop which is running linux mint 7. Trouble is, I cant get the wine font converter to work so I cant convert simsig.fon to simsig.pcf. Can anyone supply me with the converted font? Thanks in advance!