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Interesting... I'm on 168 216 with the 11.36 Marylebone to Birmingham today 22nd July and we've gone into platform 4 instead of platform 2 at Banbury. Is there some track or signalling issue today that is preventing the normal operations?

I have just gone through Richmond and it looks to me like every single Location Cabinet has been left fully open for additional ventilation. I've seen several others left open this morning elsewhere. Is that wise...? With some of them, the doors are on the sunny side; would that not heat the...

Following on from that thread, is there enough freight through Lincoln that it would be worth getting the crayons out and building a new avoiding line just on the outside of the ring road to the north? Connecting to both directions at either end to cover all possible routings?

There's a couple of interesting posts appearing in LinkedIn this evening, which suggest that the wreckage of MH370 has finally been located, but that the discovery has not yet been confirmed - hence no announcements yet. Back in April 2025 there was a lot of comment about this vessel and the...

Does anyone on here collect old newspapers related to significant and historical national events? I have two or three boxes of Daily Telegraphs available free if anyone wants them; they go back to the early 1980s. Reasonable condition - they've been kept out of the light and they're quarter...

Well, here we go again, another year... let's get out there and get any unbashed track marked off in our atlases! This thread is laid and fettled ready to be used at linespeed from Thursday.

Time to get the new thread ready so that it is ex-works on Thursday in anticipation of people collecting many new haulages in the new year.

Time to get the new thread ready so that it is ex-works on Thursday in anticipation of people collecting many new numbers in the year ahead.

I have had a question addressed to me on Twitter asking which specific 350/1s were used on Southern's Milton Keynes - East Croydon service in 2008/9; photographic evidence I can find quickly throws up the following, but I suspect there will have been more than just these involved. Was the...

They're currently in ordinary passenger service, so I think it's a coincidence. I'm seeing a far higher volume of consecutive pairs everywhere these days than I would expect by chance, so I do wonder if people in control rooms across the country like to unofficially try to play around to do it...

Following the latest disruption yesterday on the ECML ( broken rail on one of the mains at Colton Junction, I think? ), I am wondering which alternative routes I could use to get round any issues on the ECML between York and London? My son has just started at Durham University, so I can forsee...

Could anyone please identify these two un-numbered carriages at Wallingford? I did e-mail the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway to ask them, but they unfortunately haven't bothered to reply...

Heads up for anyone wanting an unusual photograph; I've just seen 377 614 at Clapham Junction on a service to Ore.

From my posting in the Greatest gathering thread: ...so it's probably time for us to keep a close eye on these ten units? A question about the bodyshells outdoors near the fence at the SW corner of the factory site; do they normally park half complete bodyshells there or were they moved...

Last week I saw a G1206 locomotive at Arcueil Cachan on RER Line B, but the only part of the number I could see was 87 0002. I don't suppose anyone knows which one it was I actually saw, please...? Looking at the French Railways book, there are seven it could possibly be...

At some point soon my wife and I will be walking the Grand Union Canal towpath from Watford to Apsley. We normally do walks like this which are just outside the zones with Travelcards + BZ6 extensions as that gives us a lot more flexibilty within London after the walk should we have time to do...

We have had a few mentions previously of 710s on routes normally operated with 378s, but I've not seen mention of the East London Line before... I've just seen 710 266 at New Cross Gate depot... Have they been down this bit before? It's photographable from passing trains if anyone wants to...

We have mentioned on this forum many times before about the damage that buddleia roots can do, but so far we haven't actually illustrated it. This picture is of the root stock of a single buddleia bush just seven feet high which was removed from a raised flowerbed in my garden on Monday; the...

I am wondering... do the diagrams on the Victoria Line have the workings alternate so that everything in use off peak does both the full length runs to Walthamstow and the shorter runs that turn back at Seven Sisters in turn or do both destinations work on a "shuttle" diagrams basis all day? If...

In recent weeks, I have noticed on Saturday evenings the forum will often run really slowly for a few moments, seemingly randomly. No other website that I have open at the same time does this. Is it just heavy use on Saturday evenings, or is there something going on behind the scenes at this...