Recent content by FuzzyDuck

Not that unusual for XC to terminate short at Reading.

Just saw it pass the Bedford cam.

Basingstoke currently affected due to a broken down 70 at Didcot. 4M65 has been parked at platform 1 for ages as it has nowhere to go.

There are 4 trains trapped between Farnborough and Basingstoke on the down line. The up line seems to be operating again, 5W56 has just been sent up (2 x 444s). Update: trains on the down now seem to be moving and all blocks removed.

Since it was morning, wasn't there a slightly later train that you could have caught? I can better that. A few years ago there were engineering works between Farnborough and Woking. Left London late evening and at Woking found the replacement bus to Farnborough. When we got there everyone got...

They already have a thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/intent-to-prosecute-short-faring.256541/page-2#post-6595785

It's currently on the down relief approaching Maindehead.

A few weeks ago. I took a late night train from Lymington Town to Lymington Pier. No one got off at Town and my wife and I were the only passengers to get off at Pier. So it would have been empty except I spoiled it!

Just saw a TikTok video posted on the Basingstoke Gazette website showing a XC Voyager with front end damage after hitting a tree, suspect it is 1M54...

That's precisely how I'd used it. Will carry on using it then for the cashback.

Not sure Waterloo is going to help much, there appears to be no service from Waterloo - Reading today. The SWML is on reduced service due to a landslip between Woking and Brookwood, so a very limited service to Basingstoke.

I used my Chase card on Friday to collect tickets without a problem, might avoid it in future however.

Looks best to avoid this stretch today, looks like the up fast is now closed too, nothing has made its way past today westbound. A couple of London bound trains have run through the area in the last hour or so.

Unless Wikipedia has got it badly wrong, all 801/1 are 5 cars and all 801/2 are 9 cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_801 Just checked with TOPS, Wikipedia is right. So no idea why YouTube contributors would suggest otherwise.

Looks like it has partially re-opened, the down fast and up slow are no longer blocked off.