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I understand Network Rail are planning to replace the footbridges at Sway and Hinton Admiral over the next few months. Just wondering what the replacements will be like? The current ones are nothing special (identical at both stations) but it will be a shame if they are replaced by something...

Had a nice holiday in Sweden recently, all train, but have come back with a couple of questions. The X-2000s are beautiful trains of course, but getting a little old now - 35 years. Are they still considered the best trains in Sweden? SJ seem to have a lot of newer streamlined EMUs, but are...

This is something of a 'sequel' to the thread No weekend trains Southampton to Bournemouth until 2nd November... Then I was grumbling about engineering work closures for four consecutive weekends around Oct 2024. That seemed like quite a lot of maintenance at the time, but as someone said...

After a recent trip to the Eastleigh PlusBus zone, I found that it's bisected by the M3, and few if any bus services cross from the Eastleigh side to the Chandler's Ford side, leaving the North-West portion, if not unusable, then at least very inconvenient to use. The zone includes Chandler's...

Just planning my Saturday day out, and rather dismayed to find that engineering work in the Southampton area results in closures there for the next four weekends - and even the week after that they're closing Redbridge... Curious as to what's being done that requires so many closures...? And I...

Just to "invert" the Why people don't travel by train thread if I may, and give some reasons why this person does travel by train. I'm a single person who's never learnt to drive. Pre Covid I commuted daily to work by train and would usually have a day trip by train on Saturday, and maybe...

The RMT has been in the news again today for yesterday declining to support the motion "Solidarity with Ukraine" at the 2023 TUC Congress: https://congress.tuc.org.uk/c21-solidarity-with-ukraine/ To remind ourselves of the leaders of the RMT: Eddie Dempsey - Senior Assistant General...

Does a Network Railcard give a discount on an off-peak Zone 1-6 Travelcard? I recall that it used to, but looking for the price to-day I found this on the Network Railcard FAQs which has raised doubts in my mind. ...which implies that it can't be purchased separately? I see the full price is...

https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disruptions/woking-20230610/ It's just taken me 3.5 hours to travel from Alton to Woking...

Saw this in the Railway Magazine recently: https://pocketmags.com/us/railway-magazine/may-2023/articles/1307275/apt-e-reconfigured-as-a-three-car-set-at-locomotion Out of interest, has the now-separated TC1 been left outside for now, or is the whole thing back undercover? Did the shunting and...

Concerning the story about a scrap-metal consignment at Heathrow that is contaminated with uranium: Uranium in cargo sparked alert at Heathrow Airport It's not the uranium aspect that interested me so much, more that scrap metal from Pakistan would be sent by air. Is scrap metal routinely...

The lines between Poole and Southampton Central are closed this weekend for engineering works. Unfortunately the smaller stops are not being served at all by rail-replacement buses...

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/21262220.poole-park-railway-suspended-derailing-afternoon/ Not a great start after a long-drawn-out closure...

Something I was thinking about the other day. I'm sure this will have been discussed before here (most things have) but I couldn't find a thread (there are quite a few about toilets!). Modern multiple units seem to space toilets fairly evenly along the train. In a 444 for example, there's one...

Just looking at the SWR site - it has a page of "Bus Links", saying "In addition to PlusBus we offer combined train and bus tickets to towns and villages without train stations. Details of popular bus links are below." It also has a large PDF available - Buslinks2203.pdf - although this...

Fire on train closes key West of England rail line (msn.com)

Just an idle question - whenever I head from Eastleigh to Fareham, I'm sure like many of us I crane my neck to see what's in the works' sidings. And of course always catch sight of the junction for the loop that goes all the way around the outside of the works. This loop - I can understand it...

Being exposed to particulate pollution increases Covid-19 mortality: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm Fresh air can help prevent coronavirus infection in shared spaces. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-53917432 It's also vital that those who have the virus and are having...

Big problems in the Bournemouth area from about 17:00 to 19:00 last night, with nothing moving due to a signal power failure. Not really much to comment on, except I am sure (ish) the same reason was given for similar big disruption on the morning of 16-Oct. Is there something particularly...

Just a quick question - I was planning to travel the scenic route from Perpignan -> Barcelona this coming Friday, using the Little Yellow Train along the way. But I've just checked the SNCF site - it's showing the Yellow trains as cancelled on Sun 11 and Mon 12, with a bus instead, and no...