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mods note - split from this thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/rail-reorganisation-in-anglia.302182/ I don't really like the use of 'Anglia' to refer to East Anglia. As Anglia is an archaic name for England, British Rail (Anglia Region) should be a non-starter. British Rail (Eastern...

Overcapacity is a big discussion point about the Chinese economy and infrastructure these days, and inevitably some of that refers to the railways. I recently changed at Nanjing South, a mostly busy station serving a major city of around 10 million, yet saw trains occupying only 6 of the 28...

With Bangor having often been a station where trains terminate and turn back towards Llandudno Junction (although not, apparently, in the current timetable), is there any good reason why the (useful and easily accessible) old Platform 4 was taken out of passenger service?

As far as I can tell, throughout its time Dover Marine/Dover Western Docks only had platforms 3, 4, 5 and 6. Is this simply because of the two roads without platforms numbered 1 and 2? Are there any other similar cases of strange/even counter-intuitive (from a passenger's viewpoint) historic...

1. Perth 2. Chester 3. London Victoria

Mine would be: University to Birmingham University or New Fosse Way Rationale: I knew several foreign students at (now more illustrious) Warwick University who looked at the local network map and boarded trains in the direction of 'University' from Birmingham International. London Liverpool...

On many old diagrams of terminus stations there will be an arrivals platform and a departures platform, with many centre lines (presumably for stabling and running around). My question is: how did this work in practice? A train would arrive at the arrivals platform presumably, then its...

Good morning, Have to travel Chester-London tomorrow, Tuesday, which I rarely do nowadays. Which hour/2-hour segment of the day has the quietest trains (least full)? I can change at Crewe if necessary.

The recent most beautiful stations thread got me thinking. How would the London termini and major stations come out if we were to rank them? I won't dictate criteria - it could be aesthetic, it could be delight at their timetabling and efficient use of space, it could be ease of movement as a...

This was probably the only London terminus I never visited pre-privatisation. I think it was only 4 platforms until fairly recently? What was the typical hourly service pattern in the 80s and what was the haulage? Was it all DMU by the late 80s or were there still locomotive-hauled services...

When this service was still running (I think it may have ceased mid to late 80s?) what stops did it make? I'm struggling to think of stations that would be long enough to accommodate it in Wales. Or did it consist of only a few carriages, with more added at Shrewsbury?

A straightforward question: As a very junior spotter (accompanied by a very knowledgeable uncle, now unfortunately deceased) in the early 80s, a frequent trip was from Warrington BQ up to York to the National Rail Museum (and the Jorvik Viking Centre). As I recall, 45s and occasionally 40s...

Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/1st-class-lounge-access.271047/ Why is access a gamble? I'd say the rules are fairly straightforward. If I have a British Airways Business Class ticket from Heathrow to Singapore, I can enter any Business Class lounge of British...

This thread may have been done before, but not for a while. Stabling aside, which stations could easily lose a platform or two without negatively impacting services? Penrith is an obvious one (is platform 3 even booked for anything?) and so is Stirling (9 platforms, and the morning starters...

Sorry if a similar thread has already been done, but it was prompted by somebody mentioning Sankey and Penketh (sic) station in another thread. The actual name of the station: Sankey for Penketh. However, as someone with knowledge of the area (my great uncle lived in Sankey his whole life)...

Recently I saw a Great Western network map (1930s, the one on the Wikipedia page) that shows Chester to Manchester via Warrington Bank Quay was part of the Great Western. I always, rightly or wrongly, assumed that it was an LMS route. 1. Was it a joint route? 2. If it was a Great Western...

When I was younger, these were my favourite stations to go to: 1. Manchester Victoria 2. Perth (depot and carriage sidings highly visible from the platforms) 3. Chester These stations are not 'well-organised' or architecturally coherent (unlike, for instance, Coventry) and routinely called...

There has been a lot of discussion on here about stations that should be renumbered, and the general consensus is it is not really worth the massive cost and disruption to long-standing systems that function well enough but may confuse the occasional passenger. But what about the opposite...

I used to rip these off the windows when I was a kid in the 80s/early 90s. When a train had reached its destination of course, not before. I wish I'd kept some of them, and would love to see people's examples, if anyone has any photos. The most unusual one I remember having was a Llandudno -...

Another thread got me thinking... From Chester it's possible to go to Manchester via Northwich or via Warrington with a reasonably frequent service. Similarly, journeys to Liverpool via Birkenhead or Runcorn. Which other cities are joined with similar competing routes?