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Ever wanted to know what rover/rangers are valid from a particular station, or look at just one map and see coverage and overlap? Claude (the AI service) created an interactive map for me: https://koyli.github.io/rail-rover/ - hope this is of some use to others! Any suggestions or corrections...

Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/storm-goretti.296983/ What surprised me about the Hope Valley decision was the timing and specific (very localized) scope of the decision (eg. the precise and extended action assigned to an imprecise forecast). At 24 hours out...

Recently the light engine workings from Leicester to Bicester (to run from Bicester to Wimbledon SWT units) have used Milton Keynes to Bicester. Today: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:R02061/2025-06-24/detailed Is there a good reason that they're routed via Nuneaton and the...

https://www.railwaygazette.com/uk/viewpoint-buy-tilting-trains-and-finish-delta-junction-to-salvage-hs2-says-gibb/68982.article Summary: OOC to Brum now not expected to open until 2037 Pendolino will be life expired 2037-2040 New tilting stock with 286m length should be procured for London to...

The wikipedia entries for 196 and 197 are curiously missing their weight ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_196 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_197). Class 195 page shows Axle load - so not too hard to work it out, whereas most other rolling stock is...

I have not seen this posted elsewhere but: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:P20053/2025-05-29/detailed From early May to December, there.is now a freight diagrammed - Southampton to Northampton. I'm still hoping we will see more in due course. Or sooner .. - freight doesn't need...

Having seen a few good apps created by forum users (such as @gaelen recently), is there any interest in a new channel on railuk to cover $subject? Getting people connected, we'd see more open source collaboration to build tools, and more ideas. I wrote a push-app to send a list of STP...

The Grauniad reports TPE cuts in services in December: Yep, dropping a quarter of the services.. Awkwardly for Manchester - that'll mean Vic going down to 2 trains an hour and Pic the same (excluding the class 2 stopper) - so neither station has the metro-like service of days gone by.. when...

Excerpt from: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/19/rail-union-in-england-votes-for-continued-strikes-in-jobs-pay-and-conditions-dispute Just posting to share the info, not to reopen the previous arguments..

Been in West Wales all week.. There have been a lot of cancellations - either down to Pembroke, or Fishguard or Milford - all have been impacted, always as a "crew shortage". Today takes the biscuit: Whitland to Milford Haven and Fishguard are a planned engineering shutdown / bus replacement...

I've seen pairs of new black poles at every station I've visited recently in South West Wales. About 10-12 ft above the track height A 6"x6" square flat panel at the top covered by black plastic - potentially a sign itself or a mount for something going on the flat panel. On single-platform...

Now we are certain that HS2 isn't going to be what it was to be - at least within the next 15 if not 20 years.. a) the total number of services will lower on the core than it is still to be built for. b) Curzon St is also being built for the original number of services. c) Extra journey times...

Does anyone have freight timetable for Ireland that they can post? Although there isn't much, some recent new workings from Waterford to Ballina for example seem elusive

Trick question .. but a more sensible one to discuss:

This doesn't look good: https://www.tenby-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=132361&headline=Concerns%20raised%20by%20local%20rail-users%20after%20%E2%80%98essential%20service%E2%80%99%20removed&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2021 In a nutshell - there will be no train between 15:43 and 20:13 from...

Just published on the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/12/11/treasury-blocks-30bn-plan-electrify-britains-railways/

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/publication-of-integrated-rail-plan-for-the-north-and-midlands.224967/ Isn't the IPR basically saying "this is the kind of connectivity we need, go and find how it could be done and what it costs" - much of the IPR isn't costed and...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/can-we-run-our-trains-using-big-batteries/ A study from USA. Seems to be saying (a) it could be done, (b) it's a bit expensive - but potentially soon could be feasible.

Does anyone have any insight as to the purpose of these workings - such as this: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:G56889/2021-09-29/detailed#allox_id=0 these seem to be frequent possibly daily. Is it testing the stock, driver training?

This should be a quick one.. There are four pairs of stations that are anagrams (of the other in the pair) on the UK network - anyone want to guess the stations? mod note: moved from UK railway discussion