Recent content by jimm

Re the Tesco bus stop at Stow-on-the-Wold, the only regular service calling there is the Thursdays only Villager community minibus route V6, which doesn't need to worry about that tree. For anyone who fancies the novelty of visiting this stop, the timetable is at...

Sorry, but I have to point out that the 16.58 'superfast' from Paddington to Great Malvern was operated by a five-car IET from the start of the December 2019 timetable and it has been a five-car ever since. I typically used the service from Oxford (if XC deigned to make the connection from...

Re the initial post, the overwhelming majority of Sunday services on the Cotswold Line, as it is still known locally, are now operated by nine-car IETs, so there are plenty of seats available in first class. As noted above, since you are boarding at Great Malvern you will be spoilt for choice...

As warwickshire said, NSE started the Paddington-Stratford services (and the short-lived Paddington-Birmingham New Street runs via Stourbridge) at the same time as it took over Cotswold Line duties from Regional Railways in May 1993 - sort of ish - as there was a lot of track and signalling work...

When the eastern end of the Oxford Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway opened in 1853, places names in the area (and the rest of the country) were something of a moveable feast, including Hanborough/Handborough. The OWW went with the spelling including the d, but the version without it then...

Unless and until the Worcester area ceases to be a live-action Victorian signalling museum, no one is going to be adding anything there, including altering the layout at and around Norton Junction - whether that is redoubling through to Evesham, reinstating a double-lead junction with a second...

What doesn't seem to have been mentioned is that at the time it was boosting the Bristol-Gloucester and Worcester frequencies (well, expect for the morning peak period...) GWR said that it needed to take out most of the runs up the hill to Great Malvern and back in order to have enough units...

Other than random short-lived experiments with routing some summer weekend No 50 buses between Shipston and Chipping Norton via Moreton, instead of going direct on the A3400, I cannot recall anything resembling a regular bus service covering the Shipston-Moreton route until the 51 was launched...

It was not purely about the change of operator from Central to LM, more that soon after taking over, LM began to increase the frequency of services between Hereford/Worcester and Birmingham - and in 2008-9 also experimented with a Worcester-Gloucester service - so needed all its Worcester-based...

The first regular buses I can remember serving Moreton-in-Marsh station, when visiting family in Blockley in the mid to late 90s, were stretched minibuses with twin rear axles operated by Castleways of Winchcombe that ran between Moreton, Blockley and Chipping Campden only. Castleways also ran...

Glad you enjoyed your trip. A few comments: The RSC building in your photo is the main Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the Swan is behind this. The section of the Fosse Way through the North Cotswolds is the A429. The A46 runs Stratford-Evesham-Tewkesbury in this neck of the woods. Various bus...

Don't know what you mean - power changeovers in the area take place on both the main lines and the relief lines between Moreton Cutting and Cholsey, well away from all the paintwork and complicated bits of overhead at Didcot It is not all going to change at Oxford within a dew years. As...

My understanding is that when the building was designed, it was certainly the intention that the central block would be a hotal and refreshment rooms - with the Hudderfield & Manchester and Lancashire & Yorkshie booking offices located in the two end porticos - even if the hotel may have...

No, there weren't. For many years, early morning FGW/GWR empty HSTs working from Bristol to Hereford went into Newport station to collect catering crews based in South Wales before heading north to Hereford. The stops in Newport were not passenger calls. Between December 2007 and December 2008...

It isn't quite dead just yet - and there will still be plenty of years of work after production ends to dismantle and remove rigs, etc, so I think the Aberdeen sleepers - whether via Birmingham International or straight up the WCML - will be doing good business for a while yet. Along with...