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Hi all, I'm on 1R76 , EMR Norwich to Derby. We've had a points failure south of Stoke Tunnel and currently reversing down the East Coast Mainline slow lines, presumably back to the Tallington Crossovers where we can rejoin the mainline and head north again. I'm just curious, the reversal is...

Hi all, I'm looking for a bit of a change of career and wondering what there is for me in the rail sector. My experience to date is in low-level embedded software and electronic engineering (i.e. PCB design, not electrical, especially not high-voltage stuff). I'm also a reasonable Python...

Railsigns.uk is a great resource for, well , rail signs. If you're ever looking at a sign or signal on the railway and you're not sure what it means, generally it's on there somewhere. I'm wondering if there's a similar resource for other things on the railway. There's lots of paraphernalia...

I was asked this question be a family member the other day and I didn't know the answer. As per the title, is bike space provision legally mandated in any sense? Like, could the DfT or a TOC say "actually, this class doesn't need them"? I think all current passenger stock (except the class 139)...

Without getting into the wider pros and cons of the tariffs the US is about to impose, and without too much criticism of the US president and administration (not that it isn't deserved, but there's a thread in general discussion for that!): What will the likely effects, if any, be of the...

Sitting at Kings Cross waiting for a train, it occurs to me that as far as I can see there is no benefit to the passenger of Great Northern and Thameslink being separate brands. At least from the POV of services that terminate at Kings Cross or Moorgate, the services are more or less identical...

On Thursday 25th July my partner and I travelled from Huntingdon (HUN) to Edinburgh (EDB). High level summary, we were delayed 66 minutes getting to Edinburgh - I don't think there's any doubt that I have a valid claim. The question is who should the claim be submitted to. Our original...

Hi all, I'm planning a trip to Cornwall in the Autumn with my partner. We have a complication that we are waiting for a date for her to (possibly) have minor surgery. If the date turns out to be in the middle of the holiday, we may have to cancel the holiday last-minute if the surgery cannot be...

A comment in the EWR construction updates thread got me thinking about route learning: Basically, my questions are how much route learning is done in simulators now, and how much could be done in future? I know nothing about the topic, so I don't know if simulators are too limited to really...

The Cambridge Approaches group have produced a document that claims EWR (East West Rail) will not pay back its carbon cost: https://cambridgeapproaches.org/ewr-bedford-to-cambridge-does-it-reduce-co2-emissions/ I am not knowledgeable enough to know if their analysis is sound, but if a railway...

To my understanding, paths and platform space are at a premium at Paddington. Heathrow Express is still twice as fast as the Elizabeth line but is also twice the price and only serves Paddington - I imagine the Elizabeth line must have severely cut into Heathrow Express passenger numbers? If...

Hi all, Mods: please delete or move if you feel this is not appropriate. I've written a game where you have to find all the rail stations on the TfL network (Underground, DLR, Elizabeth Line, Overground and London Trams): findthetube.com. I'd love for people to try it out and let me know what...

https://wmre.org.uk/proposals-for-three-new-west-midlands-railway-stations-to-be-developed/ Quoting from the press release: I don't know much about rail in this area of the country. Is there capacity to stop additional trains at these locations? Coventry East is on the WCML and must be fairly...

(Mods: not sure if this should actually be in International Transport? Move if you like.) After reading the thread on the Eurostar dewirement and rescue today, I got to reading about the Eurotunnel Class 0001 that were used for the rescue. Specifically, it seems they are used to haul the SNCF...

A fairly simple question, but quite hard to find a definite answer on Google. If there are still non-CET trains out there, someone will eventually have the dubious honour of being the last person to have their waste dumped into the ballast. I feel like they should get a little trophy or...

Reading the news about RAAC concrete, it seems to me that it was so widely used that it's probably on the rail estate somewhere. Obviously (hopefully) not anything critical to the running of trains - nothing safety critical, but things like stations, depots, signalling centres perhaps? Just...

mods note - split from this thread They will take notice, take the opportunity for a photo-op, praise the industry etc. What they won't do is actually pay for a program of pro-active inspection and maintenance to avoid this kind of dangerous situation in the first place (and the expensive...

mods note - split from here Right, but as much as he may have been against the station in principle, I bet his constituents will want a half-finished hole in the ground even less. A completed station brings jobs, tax income etc., as well as access to everything that HS2 connectivity brings...

Happy New Year all! As a New Year's gift for all the nerds and pedants, I have a question: when did our mainlines get their names? For example, when was the first time the words "East Coast Mainline" were used to refer to that route?

Hi all, I was travelling on the 1857 Hull to Doncaster today (2C39, a two car 158). On the approach to Brough, we stopped for a while. Then we started moving again, but very slowly (and with what to me sounded like wheelslip but I'm not any kind of expert). A few seconds later we passed over a...