I actually hadn't suggested the specific section for Major Disruption as a replacement for official sources.
In which case they would be able to start a thread asking for that information on the basis that they're either caught up in it or are travelling later. Or have noticed it and would like some more information about what's going on (though if the answer is "not much, the trains broken, it'll be fixed and on we go" it'll likely end up being deleted!).
I know what you mean but we really don't want to be duplicating the contents of places like Twitter, National Rail Enquires, JourneyCheck, etc. And I can't help but suspect that if we had a section titled "Disruption" or similar we'd be swamped by people simply copy pasting the latest updates from those sources. This would generate more work for us to keep the section tidied up to just threads that actually have disruption that's worth commenting on.
What sort of comment would you like to see? For example, I notice you didn't create a thread about it to discuss it?
I think that this plays an enormous part. If a forum member were to ask for travel advice I'd say it's always been made clear they're totally welcome to do that if they want to, and that's something I personally thoroughly appreciate.
Guilty as charged.........but didn't have any idea as to the cause(s) or the extent at the time.
Fair enough, yes, I also had no idea at the time and for a long while after. That's probably the main explanation.
Good idea this
Presumably, there will be a local moderator for that forum that could restrict the amount of spam, should needs be.
If two or more people create threads on the same topic, simply report the opening post of the most recent topic, and state that it is a duplicate, and paste the URL of the original topic in your report.
There are around 10.5k active members (if you define active as having logged in within the last month), however even if a member is caught up in disruption, they may not feel the need to create a thread.
If you are making, or intend to make, a journey, and disruption is occurring, you are welcome to create a thread.
There is already a forum specifically for travel advice.
.Which is extremely useful, but hidden away somewhat. My guess would be that most people are unaware of this excellent purpose it serves because of the title - mightn't something like "travel advice and reports" work better? "Trip Planning & Reports" implies that it's entirely for "bashing" recommendations, as it were, and not for more mundane purposes, especially since the impression I get is that the person who starts a disruption thread is usually a less active member, not nearly so familiar with the railways as people like yourself, who may be of a persuasion to shy away from the more "nerdy" (perish the phrase) areas of the Forum.
I think trip planning has always been intended to cover planning of trips for "bashing" and also planning for and even current travel advice more widely than that, for any journey. But I can understand how maybe that hasn't totally come across in the name. Maybe it could be thought of as "Travel: advice, planning, reports".
Unfortunately I think colon-ising (pathetic, I know, couldn't resist, sorry) the title would be a bit too much of a mouthful and create exactly the opposite problem! Would the current "planning" function be as easily understood if it was changed to "advice"? My suspicion would be yes - and it would perhaps help with the disruption-threads issue that is at hand.
I wouldn't suggest that the forum name be changed in particular, I was actually just putting a slant on how to interpret it. That is to say trip planning is "travel planning", reports are "travel reports" and advice is "travel advice".
It's not hidden, but if anyone wants to suggest that we change the order of the forum sections (or indeed make any other suggestions), they are welcome to use the 'Contact Us' form (link at the bottom of each page) and we'll discuss it at the next meeting.
Again if anyone can think of a better title for that section, feel free to submit any such suggestions via the Contact Us form.
Large trees down on the OHL blocking both lines between Lockerbie and Carstairs I believe.
As per my post earlier today on this thread, I was just looking out of interest, and my thanks to @800001 for the info. But as for the message here from @yorkie, the link you posted for "travel advice" doesn't seem to lead to anything other than the general page "Trip planning and reports", which doesn't really give much info about present disruptions ...
Network Rail Scotland have tweeted -
After being affected by the failed train at Clapham Junction on Monday morning, I'm affected again today travelling from Glasgow to London. Having to detour via Edinburgh and ECML. Full ticket acceptance in place and able to reserve a seat on LNER from the platform at Waverley. The LNER service is very busy as you'd expect.
We are not some structured reporting service for the system, it all depends on who on here was there at the time, writing here, and who followed up. That's how it works.
Well, I have commented a number of times on various Elizabeth Line disruptions I ran into, all of which must have disorganised tens of thousands, and have received "here we go again with moans" rebuttals from others. Fortunately these seem to have been, very slowly, to an extent got to grips with, so don't appear here much any more.
Sorry I didn't realise you were asking for information regarding present disruptions; you can find that at the following link:
No; this thread isn't a thread for disruption updates.
I would slightly alter that and say that interesting disruptions tend to get raised, which is probably as it should be on a forum that has no intention of becoming a site for essentially transcribing information off the likes of National Rail Enquiries. Therefore a trespass incident - something that is not only likely to be somewhat sensitive, but also, sadly, not uncommon - would be of lower priority for discussion than a derailment, even if it only affected one man and his dog.
