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I’m booked on the 1450 Inverness to Stirling today which Scotrail inform me has been partially cancelled. I believe it’s a broken down train somewhere south of Kingussie. Any more news on my chances of making it through to Edinburgh? Any further gen welcomed.

Watching some YouTube this week I spotted the big 2-8-0 3803 parked under the train shed at Kingswear. I understand it’s been bought by the railway from the South Devon and wondered if anyone might know how far off starting her career on the line 3803 might be? I know the line’s availability of...

I had a Paddington to Paignton run a week or two ago - my first journey on one of these. It was a 9 car unit. I had a stopwatch with me and ended up logging the running from Reading to Exeter. Talking to the on board train manager towards Paignton, he thought the pantograph came down at Newbury...

Hello all, is there a reliable way of knowing a little in advance what locos are scheduled on any given day, on the Dartmouth Steam Railway (is that its latest name?) this season? I'm not sure their website is very helpful- very much general visitor facing rather than catering for cranks too...

I drove my partner to Selby this afternoon as she was catching the 17.05 Hull Trains service to London (KGX). Mainly because I'm used to these services coming in from Hull two or three minutes down and as RTT showed it the usual 3 late at Howden, I was surprised to see the 180 unit arriving at...

Hello all, I've seen an engineering train - sometimes ballast (or empties usually) in low side wagons, sometimes lengths of CWR- passing through Mortlake, up direction (i.e. towards Barnes) at bang on 11.15 on weekdays recently. I couldn't say it runs every weekday but have seen it only on...

It was a fairly nutty day all round Thursday 8th. An out and back KX-Retford journey saw my return 16.18 'Hull Train' from Retford caped with replacement traction in the form of a battered Doncaster based minicab to Peterbro (provided by Hull Trains as VTEC weren't honouring HT only tickets)...