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I can't let a thread about themed graffiti go by without mentioning this one: "See it, Spray It, Sorted" graffitied onto an S-Stock train. Source: https://x.com/tontytrains/status/1751929135809589315

If I don my cynic hat for a moment, I do have to wonder how much it would have cost them to make Cottingley step free and spruce up the paths to the station. But then again, they had to move the station away from the residential areas to get that sweet business park investment money...

The (apparently serious) consideration of Transpennine Express getting Class 442s Southern's "taxi replacement" from Newhaven Marine station to Newhaven Harbour Cleckheaton Railway Station being stolen Smethwick West being served for a year after messing up closure

My guess is something to do with 9H46 ahead of it, which spent 13 minutes at Ealing Broadway. I suspect 9R48 was routed onto the mains to overtake it.

Ah, thank you!

That was my first thought. The SWR services that split at Bournemouth aren't going there either. Interestingly, at the station, the departure boards show the XC leaving from Platform 2 until about 5 minutes before it leaves, but occasionally display a message "The xx45 Cross-country service...

Something I've noticed over the last week or so is that the hourly Crosscountry arrives into Bournemouth on Platform 3 then stays there until the return journey, meaning that other services (both up and down) are all going through Platform 2 while the XC unit is there. The up semi-fast SWR...

White Rose Station is being built primarily to serve the business park (the shopping centre is a secondary consideration)

I get the 20 home, if I'd been working an hour later I'd have been on that one!

Ringwood's (Hampshire) nearest station now is probably Christchurch (Dorset)

Should the refurb 458s be put solely on the Windsor and Ascot lines, I wonder what that would mean for maintenance - if memory serves, SWR made a big thing about them being looked after by Bournemouth depot, and diagrams including a daily Waterloo to Poole to get sets down that way. Surely...

417 and 423 (I think) left Bournemouth today on 5Q90. Caught them heading through Pokesdown. I assume on a test run.

Some awful ones from here in Dorset... Spooksdown, Mourn-mouth, Booooo-le, Scareham

If it's the pigeon advert, it's been on and off TV/online for about 18 months! I remember pointing out to someone last year that the trains featured in it weren't actually in service... Plus ca change, as they say

Here's a picture of Ryde tunnel showing the water level almost reaching the very top of the arch. Also, watching the pictures on BBC news, it seems a fair amount of debris and mud has washed across the track at the southern end of Ryde Esplanade station. (from...