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The sign by the track tells the driver where to stop, the one on the platform tells passengers where the front of the train will be.

If they do get refurbished, I would assume it would be to both ends.

It's possible, but this morning the West Midlands Railway website was was warning of major problems on the line before any trains had been cancelled.

Since the introduction of the 196's on the Nuckle line the performance has fallen off a cliff. This Monday to Friday only Wednesday had a full service, today is particularly bad with 22 out of 36 departures from Kenilworth being cancelled. Most cancellations have cited train crew issues as the...

An operational oddity is that on WMR trains arriving at Snow Hill the onboard announcement includes a reminder to have tickets ready to exit through the barriers. This isn’t said as the train arrives at Moor Street. From experience, the gates at Snow Hill are open more often than those at Moor...

There is one 2 car (half) diagram according to the PDF timetable published on the WMR website. The diagram starts the day as 4 cars but reduces to 2 with the 10:47 departure from Shrub Hill to Stratford. It then becomes 4 cars again from the 15:16 from Shrub Hill to Dorridge, before ending the...

Chiltern have the following on their planned changes calendar Saturday 6th May 2023: An amended timetable will be in operation, in respect of the following: Special event - King Charles III Coronation (London). An enhanced timetable will be in operation for most of the day, with some...

The announcement is here https://www.londonnorthwesternrailway.co.uk/travel-information/service-disruptions/may-timetable-change-sunday-21-may-2023

I think it will struggle to earn its keep, any revenue gained will likely not cover the additional operational costs. RTT has it departing from platform 4 at Leamington at 0555. Platform 4 has an 0540 to Nuneaton, so the unit will need to be positioned from the sidings into Platform 4 after the...

Middleton Junction on the line between Manchester Victoria and Rochdale. Have any Parkway stations had their name used by the area surrounding the station?

Using the journey planner for 'departing now', from Tame Bridge Parkway to New Street via Wolverhampton would take 45 minutes, whilst the alternative doubling back at Walsall would take 43 minutes. This is probably quite close to what could be achieved from Willenhall or Darlaston.

Why isn’t the service to Birmingham useful? As best as I can figure out from the tfwm site, neither Willenhall nor Darlaston currently have a direct bus service to Birmingham, being able to get to Birmingham in under 30 minutes would, in my opinion, be quite useful.

I’m not sure of the dates, but at some point (which must have been before 2013), Chiltern became responsible for providing the service for the stations after Dorridge, so Lapworth to Leamington Spa, with all 3 local services terminating at Dorridge. In order not to slow down London services too...

When the Nottingham to Birmingham journeys disappear, Wilnecote gains a stop in the Nottingham to Cardiff journeys. So it doesn't seem to be an error.

A niche observation, which be just a data entry error, but the four request stops between Stratford-upon-Avon and Birmingham Moor Street (Wootton Wawen, Danzey, Wood End and The Lakes) are not indicated as request stops from May. (Last Tuesday I travelled mid afternoon from Birmingham and we...

Lapworth had over 84 thousand passengers in 2019-20 and 51 thousand last year, so probably the additional calls are merited. Tyseley and Small Heath gain the extra call per hour due to the recasting of service from 6 trains an hour (pre-Covid) to 4 trains an hour now. The extra call is needed...

No - that was almost my fourth bullet, it's almost reduced to a 2 hourly Stratford to Leamington shuttle, apart from one train at 2133 that extends to Marylebone (and is incidentally the last service from Leamington to Marylebone) and the final train at 2314 that runs to Banbury

Had a quick look at Chiltern at the Birmingham end, but it's not possible to fully understand what's happening until the WMR trains are online as well. A couple of (or three) observations The 2 TPH between Birmingham and Marylebone is restored throughout the day Monday to Saturday. Dorridge...

RTT is now showing the pre and post match calls at Bordesley

Also mentioned on Lumo site for the same dates.