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Mods please delete if I've posted this in the wrong section... It appears that WMT have applied to the ORR proposing a return to 6pth on the Northern end of the Cross City Line. The additional services would operate as a shuttle from Birmingham to Four Oaks / Lichfield Trent Valley twice an...

Over recent months I’ve noticed that there’s an interesting bit of timetabling at Birmingham New Street for the Wolverhampton / Rugeley services. What effectively happens is the Wolverhampton train gets into the B end of the platform first, then the Rugeley train gets into the A end. The...

Just heard an announcement on the 15:00 Milton Keynes-Euston service where the guard was apologising about it being short formed to 4 carriages, stating that 14 trains had been damaged by the flooding at Northampton and couldn’t run in service. Does anyone know the extent of the damage (it must...

Is it just me who feels that using the aforementioned reason for disruption when somebody is hit by a train is a foolish way of dealing with such incidents. I understand that it's a very sensitive and unfortunate subject, but upon seeing the abuse that TOCs get when this does occur, part of me...

Currently, Avanti operate a number of diversionary routes, with their midlands diversions being the ones that I’m most familiar with, having travelled on a rammed 1tph 5 car voyager via coleshill a few times, and was wondering, what will happen to Avanti diversions after the 805s are introduced...

I was travelled on 350244 today and immediately noticed that throughout the train all of the lights seemed to have been replaced by harsh bright cool white lighting, is there a programme to replace all of the lighting currently ongoing with the 350s? I’ve attached a photo, it’s not brilliant...

I’ve noticed in the last few months that the spotlights and window side lights on AWC super voyagers haven’t been turned on as of yet. Does anyone know a reason for this? Many thanks. (Picture attached)

Does anyone know what’s happening with the Avanti Euston-Birmingham services in the May TTC? Will it still be the sometimes 3tph and most of the time 2tph, or is it ramping up to 3tph all the time? At the moment a train that has come from further north than Birmingham runs in the semifast (in...

I’ve been wondering for a while what the blanking plates on the sides on class 323s are. They’re located above the windows at the centre of each carriage. Does anyone know what these are for? Thanks.