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The 9 headcode on a Virgin WCML service indicates that the train runs via Birmingham instead of the Trent Valley. 3 I'm not so sure about these days, I think it refers/once referred to ECS moves that need to be given higher priority than the usual 5xxx.

I peeked through the shutter the other day - it's completely gutted inside and the floor is strewn with broken-up tiles. Whatever is being done, it's a big job.

The follow-on-order suggestion might not be so outlandish as it first appears; as has been pointed out elsewhere, Stadler are very good at designing modular trains to work the various gauges in their native Switzerland. I'm amused by the mental image of a Glasgow Subway body on standard-gauge...

The Airlink timetable shows Airport-Waverley in 21-25 minutes, compared with the tram in 31. But at peak times that will easily extend to 45 minutes or more, given the time it takes the bus to get on to the A8, and that it runs as a local through much of the western suburbs. When the bus...

Am I imagining it, or was there an anecdote, possibly from BR days, where an evening GWML peak train deliberately omitted its 'u' stop at Reading, resulting in a load of unsuspecting commuters being taken to Taunton and excessed accordingly? (The scheduled Reading pick-up was covered by a...

I remember several years ago there was a proposal to cascade either 153s or Pacers to the Strathclyde network, which met a major outcry culminating in SPT basically saying, "over our dead bodies will we take old cast-offs". The outcome was the order for new-build 170s.

Definitely - it's something I always look out for when I'm travelling on that stretch, and it always cheers me up when I see it.

I can't quite say why exactly, but there's a look of the Class 309 about it. It'll grow on people.

I passed it at about 07:40 on Thursday and I thought it was a simple failure and not damaged at all. I was on a St James-bound train which was held for longer than usual at North Shields, presumably while the driver was on to Control being cautioned past the red. We proceeded at caution past the...

Crosshill (Cathcart Circle, Glasgow) - a narrow island platform on a curve in a cutting, with a sizeable portion of the platform situated in the gloom beneath Albert Road overbridge.

A few in Glasgow. The eastbound lines at Central Low Level and Argyle Street are visible from each other's island - you can definitely stand at the west end of Argyle Street and watch a train make its stop at Central. I'd imagine Cardonald and Hillington East are line-of-sight too, as well...