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With the news that Aston Villa are looking to expand the capacity of Villa Park before Euro 2028 (some games will be hosted in Birmingham) there is talk again of the redevelopment of Witton Railway Station, which is located about 250 metres from the stadium. Except for some optimistic but non...

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I wonder what the longest run of stations is where each station is in a different county to the next? I’m saying consecutive stations rather than services which skip stations. I’ll allow stations in a row where no trains are currently timetabled to serve. Any definition of a county is fine but...

How many stations in the UK are named after things which no longer exist? I know in Scotland that there is no longer a waterfall at Falls of Cruachan because the source of the falls was blocked by a dam in the sixties as part of the construction of a hydroelectric power station, and that Singer...

I know there a lots of individual threads for everything but sometimes they are overwhelming and much like people who don't know what a datum plate is, if you don't know what you are looking for in the first place then you can't really be expected to find it. In a nutshell what projects...

This may have been asked before, if so then I'll use the excuse that I'm looking for the current timetable but which two stations have the most frequent direct service between them? What about stations at least 20 miles apart? Stations at least 40 miles apart? (to remove Reading - Paddington...

It's a question I used to know the answer to, something like 13,000 trains run a day (M-F start of service to end of service) but that number was quite a while ago. I'd guess that the number has increased but I can't find out what it is these days. I'm sure one of you lovely lot knows the...

Dunno if this is in the right forum, a cursory glance has shown that the story hasn't made it here yet but most people here like trains and football so it's certainly relevant. Crystal Palace FC are running a steam train from Clapham Junction & Selhurst to Southampton on the final day of the...

There are quite a few places where 100% of all passenger trains passing through will stop, which station has the lowest? I know there are stations which get hardly any trains a day but don't these tend to be tucked away on low trafficked lines? What places on busy lines have the fewest calls...

Stratford upon Avon has been massively disrupted since Tuesday with signalling problems. Just glanced at the Twitter this morning and both LM and Chiltern say they anticipate problems to continue again today until end of service. At the moment it seems trains can make it to Stratford from...

Some signalling cable has caught fire in St John's Wood tunnel. Job potentially stopped for 24 hours.

http://youtu.be/mRQt_PMhBXY Stumbled upon this video earlier and found it rather interesting. It's a guy explaining how user operated level crossings work and he does it as a Javelin train passes by. The crossing is here between Canterbury West station and Chartham station. What is the...

I've heard some stations along the Chiltern route are having their platforms lengthened to accommodate 9 cars within the next year. If this is true (and I have no reason to believe that it isn't) then that is quite a big deal operationally.

I was just curious as to which stations have a lot of routes out of them. Leamington Spa for example has three, southbound you can go to Banbury but northbound you can go to Birmingham via Warwick or Birmingham via Coventry. Both completely separate routes, arrive in different stations in...

I'm sure the answer to this question used to be published in the working timetable, but as I've not seen one of those in years I'll throw the question out to the forum: How many passenger trains run every day on the network in the current timetable? Some guidelines to my question: For...

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http://youtu.be/8vrHMmZm6lU Video released by the FA of the England team travelling from Burton upon Trent (where the main training facilities are located) to London ahead of tomorrow's game against Scotland. They take a coach for the short trip to Lichfield Trent Valley where they get on...

Saw this elsewhere on the internet earlier and it made me smile: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1k5oa9/hey_pizza_hut_can_you_deliver_me_pizza_im_on_a_4/ < words. http://imgur.com/a/jXUlz < pictures. Pretty sure it happened today, and it's in the UK but I don't recognise...

This has almost certainly been asked before, but which two consecutive stations have the most types of different traction travelling between them? If we say that the trains have to stop at both stations then Banbury to Leamington Spa has to be in the running. Limiting it to passenger trains...

I'm not really sure this is thread worthy, but I was thinking if you took a train up* the Trent Valley line from Stafford to Rugby, then every station with the exception of Atherstone has it's own connecting line into Birmingham New Street. Of seven stations over fifty or so miles there are...