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09:54 to Kew Bridge. Both RTT and the train manager on the train from Reading said 3. Unannounced change to 1

You are right. Just that I was in pain and fed up.

Dear SWR if you are going to change departure platform then (1) announce it and ( 2) give everyone the chance to get to the new platform, including, and this bit is important, disabled passengers like myself. Thus just happened to me at Virginia Water and I missed the connection.

The Times is reporting that sadly there has been a fatality.

Without knowing the content of the call I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. The report made it clear that there had been a family emergency the day before and I suspect that the call might have had something to do with that. A tired man, working an unexpected shift, mind possibly...

The Times is reporting that Joseph Malloy, a former senior executive with HSBC, has been sentenced to ten months in jail, suspended for 18 months, along with a requirement to undertake 80 hours of approved work. He was ordered not to travel on Southeastern Railway for 12 months and to pay the...

A complete cab run of the 05:40 Flying Scotsman from Edinburgh to Kings Cross taken on the 25th Sept 2025. First class production by LNER on a par with Ben Elias and Don Coffey.

400 errors: your problem. 500 errors: their problem :)

Telegraph is naming the driver involved. I won't post the name here though.

And the potential for further serious injury as people attempt to get down from the train to the track level, in the dark, with a potential crush of people behind. The consequences for the able bodied, let alone disabled or elderly, just don't bear thinking about.

Came back on the horribly delayed 19:10 (no fault of Avanti - trespassers on line) from Euston a couple of days ago and there was a ticket audit team on board. Not Avanti staff but some other company ( I didn't take the details). Any ideas who they were and what is the difference between a...

Slight cheat but Gobowen has a GWR style sign:

Worcester Shrub Hill is currently closed due to damage to the station building,

Trains being diverted down the Camp Hill Line ( obv diesel only!)

As an IT person who deals in major infrastructure I don't think it was unfair. Why wasn't the system switched over BEFORE the work was carried out?

Talk about single points of failure. A swap out of one card in one telecoms centre caused this? Are they saying that there is no resilience in the system? Edit to add. Just seen the BBC report saying that there was a failover to a centre in Didcot. Not very successfully it seems. I suspect...

Interesting sentence in the Times which might give a clue: "The Times has been told that the company launched an investigation after Haigh said that company mobile phones had been stolen or had gone missing on repeated occasions."

Indeed. If, and only if, you were to do that, which I agree is highly unlikely, then you might as well move the loop to Carno and reopen the station.

The summit is slightly further along the line at the cutting. I need to get my copy of Cristiansen and Miller out which has the gradient profile to be certain but I think that Talerddig itself is on a descending gradient towards Caersws.

I did wonder which side of the loop the trains were running (I did see that the loop is bi-di) and thank you very much for the clarification. I wonder if that rule might change now with the refuge siding being set for Shrewsbury bound trains. But thank you again.