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    Locomotive Movements up and down the Borderlands Railway

    Thank you!
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    Locomotive Movements up and down the Borderlands Railway

    I am not sure it is that, today was a solo 37 and yesterday another type with a long train of flat looking cars and then a crane on the very last one.
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    Locomotive Movements up and down the Borderlands Railway

    Hi all Sorry if this is the wrong section, and a search yielded no other discussion. Does anybody know what has led to locomotives regularly trundling up and down the Borderlands railway around the Heswall area? Each morning one has passed through, with a class 37 just before I posted this...
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    Railway maintenance equipment

    Hello all, I do hope my question isn’t too OT for this forum, however late at night I have been watching a Class 66, followed by lots of fairly unknown equipment lit up with blue lights in trail. This is on the borderlands line where there is work ongoing. Google searches haven’t shown what I...
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    Freight on borderlands line?

    It looked like an aggregate train. Very strange!
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    Freight on borderlands line?

    Thanks, great idea! I am tuned in and watching :D
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    Freight on borderlands line?

    Good morning, for the second Sunday this summer, I have been awoken by a very ‘long’ train passing through the station in the distance. I looked it up on RTT and came across this: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U34982/2019/09/22/advanced Last time, the train departed from Hoylake and...
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    TOPS Requests (including headcodes, allocations, traction, etc) [Instructions in Post 2]

    Morning all, I hope this is the right place to make a request armed only with some vague information... I got woken up at about 6-7am today by what I can only assume was a thundering freight train. Can anybody look up to see if there were any freight movements on the Bidston to Wrexham...
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    Incident at Hemel Hempstead

    Good job you take the train then :P
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    Incident at Hemel Hempstead

    As un-PC as it is, I am more worried about having my throat slit or being blown up...
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    Incident at Hemel Hempstead

    The Liverpool train left Crewe after I got off, so swapped onto the next one and having a much deserved glass of red this one is stopping at Euston only. Positives I guess....
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    Incident at Hemel Hempstead

    Hmmm to get off or go via new street.... suggestions?
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    Incident at Hemel Hempstead

    Train manager said it was a fatality near Stafford... currently not moving :/
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    Borderlands Line Rolling Stock

    Thank you for your reply Craigy
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    Borderlands Line Rolling Stock

    Thank you for your helpful reply clagmonster. Much appreciated! :)
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    Borderlands Line Rolling Stock

    Hello all I was wondering if anybody can help me with what I hope is a simple question. Does anybody know what happens to the rolling stock allocated to the line outside of timetabled hours. Is one train stabled at Wrexham Central through the night and the other originate from Chester (two...

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