Recent content by stu227

I once had the misfortune of travelling London to Edinburgh and back with Lumo. The whole experience was unpleasant, from luggage restrictions, to the scrum to join the train as staff only unlocked the doors a few minutes before departure and the entire experience thereafter. Despite their...

This is very useful. We have decamped to Costa with a good book and will try again later!

If by reduced you mean nothing at all, you'd be right! Nothing has moved at Shenfield for over an hour now.

Yep. Absolutely nothing happening on GEML for almost an hour now. Getting a bit nippy!

Well, it wasn't too expensive, so the occasional down day or two is to be expected... What amazes me, is that it took around seven years for them to sort the signalling on the Jubilee line extension, and yet the same organisation was contracted to do the signalling on the Elizabeth line, and...

Almost Exactly a year ago I spent hours on a damaged 158 on that very line between Machynlleth and Welshpool when a train hit a tree branch that had come off one of the trees lineside. Definitely could do with better management, but the scale and cost of the task would be immense across the...

Dunno if it might help future visitors to this page, but I caught the train from Kyle yesterday, seemed to be two services - a 1020 and a 1509. I caught the latter, and very nice it was too!

There was an old guy at Liverpool St who used to do this regularly. Miserable as sin, took absolute delight in despatching as early as he possibly could, usually best part of a minute before scheduled departure, while passengers ran for the train. He particularly liked it when the rear train...

Wonderful reply, exactly what I was hoping for! Cheers. 1656157671 Which is probably why it's a good job we have speedometers fitted to things!

I have a question which I'm sure someone here will easily answer... Is it possible for a regular passenger train (pendolino in this case) to exceed the max line running speed? I ask because we were on a late running service yesterday which made up about 15 minutes of lost time. We seemed to...

Well here we are and 315s are still very much in use. Three years after the Elizabeth line should have opened and we're still using rolling stock from the 80s. On a rainy day (like today) dodging the occasional indoor downpour from a leaking roof adds to the entertainment of commuting...

It is incredible that they manage to make such old unites look relatively decent - and maintain them so they turn up more regularly and punctually than any previous operator. Concession v Franchise? It's certainly telling that rush hour at Brentwood sees almost exclusively 315s still rather than...

Hmmm... What did I say a few days ago? http://londonist.com/london/transport/delays-rolling-out-crossrail-train-on-liverpool-street-routes?

You must be exceptionally lucky. I'm not the only passenger to notice the advertised "11" trains are mysteriously missing in service...

Looks very much like all of these are out of passenger service at the moment. Would be interesting to know why...