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Does anyone know whether Mk III coaches are cleared to run on the Lonon, Tilbury & Southend (C2C) route into Fenchurch Street?

Does anyone know how I can measure the track mileage distance between Liverpool Bulk Terminal and Rugeley Power Station?

Whilst travelling north on the WCML last week, I noticed that south of Preston, just before the Ribble bridges on the down side of the railway, there seems to be an area of ex-railway land. looking at this on Google Earth, it appears to be an array of disused sidings. Does anybody know what...

My daughter has just moved to SW5 and has been asking me about train services. I know the underground pretty well so can advise he about this, but I don't really know the surface railway very well in that part of London. The TfL web site shows me what Lorol services there are from West...

Apologies (well, not really :twisted:) for raising this old chestnut again, but whilst I was searching for something else today, I came across the ORR Annual Health & Safety Report, which was apparently published in July this year and seems to have slipped by unnoticed (unless there's another...

I know this is a provocative thread, especially given that I'm the one starting it. However, last evening's London Evening Standard carried THIS article, about Victoria Line tube trains leaving stations with doors open. In the article, it described Bombardier as a German company. Given the...

The BBC is reporting HERE that the Class 334 fleet will be refurbished, with Railway Projects Limited, a Derby based company in the lead, with much of the work subcontracted to Brodie Engineering Ltd in Kilmarnock. I don't know much about the latter. Have they done rolling stock work before?

Does anyone know whether Classes 313 and 508 utilise the same arrangement of tripcocks?

Whilst looking at the China rail accident thread, I noticed THIS in one of the links. It's also being reported in Europe, though not very widely. One German report HERE.

DfT has published a tender notice in the European Journal, which provides more detail on the timetable for refranchising, as follows: - The Department anticipates commencing the separate procurements of the Essex Thameside, Great Western, Thameslink, InterCity East Coast, South Eastern...

Apparently, DfT will publish a White Paper in Autumn 2011. Given that White Papers generally set out Governments' intentions in terms of what it proposes to bring forward as Bills for the introduction / amendment of Primary Legislation, do we have any idea what we might expect to see in this...

A simple question, with maybe not such a simple answer. Will the FCC Class 313 fleet be replaced as part of the Siemens Thameslink order? If not, does anybody know what is planned?

Thought it might be useful to post Stephen Hammond's statement on refranchising in full, as a point of reference for other threads: - New Franchising Programme The Secretary of State for Transport, Philip Hammond: The Government is committed to a major reform of rail franchising that...

I'm starting this thread under NR General, but site admin may decide to move it to rolling stock, or even wrap it in with the existing "Where will the next DMU order be?" thread. Last night, I decided to venture out from Liverpool and head east into my old home patch of the Peak District...

Help! I need to accompany some Chinese visitors through some European travel in a couple of weeks. There are some parts that I've not done before and I'm really struggling. Does anybody know how to book tickets for the Allegro service that operates between Helsinki and St Petersburg...

According to the Official Journal of the European Journal (OJEU), Scotrail has awarded a contract for the supply of loco hauled passenger services Edinburgh - Fife Circle - Edinburgh. The contract is worth £3.5M and the successful bidder is DB Schenker, which will provide driver, loco and stock...

There's a section in the McNulty Report, which implies that poor decisions have been made in relation to operational practice, without the implications of these decisions having properly been thought through (6.3, page 82 for anyone that's interested). The Windermere Branch and its change in...

A question... is there anything electrically or mechanically preventing a Mk III coach being coupled to a Mk IV coach? I'm aware that Mk IIIs have secondary / central door locking and Mk IVs have powered doors, so I'm assuming that some knitting would be required to get them to work together...

The current conventional wisdom is that in order for a train to operate at high speed (125 mph plus) on the West Coast Main Line, it must be fitted with tilt, to improve the passenger comfort on certain sections where there are many tight(ish) curves. However, when BR conceived the IC250...

I'm doing some train performance work at present and have observed that there's a 1 in 41 gradient between Glasgow Queen Street and Cowlairs. Does anyone know whether this is (or has it in the past) been an issue for drivers, both starting from QS and braking in to QS? Any advice from the...