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Shout out for the Anniesland Single Chord. Not platform 3, but the connection to the Singer lines (platforms 1 and 2) from the line through Kelvindale. It was used in anger when Queen Street High Level was closed for remodelling, but extremely rarely since. Not even any Track Recording trains or...

Ayr station hotel? Oh. Whoops Sorry. As you were….

NOT changing direction at Penzance is considered bad form.

With all the construction seemingly over - how come there's a project to put an HS2 works siding on the Up side of the Chiltern Main Line between Denham and West Ruislip? What will it be used for?

Demolish Cottingley footbridge, keep it as a station in one direction only. Clearance for electric trains is now a given. Open White Rose in the other direction only - cheaper than opening the entire station. This may contain traces of sarcasm.

“Take the signal, driver…”

Yes, I wasn't implying that the train HAD TO be shorter because the only platform available for it was 12C; merely that, because it WAS now timetabled into 12C, it must be diagrammed as a 5-car set. Thanks for the replies.

I have been travelling York -> Derby and back once a week for nearly 2 years now. As of the May 2025 timetable change, my preferred southbound service (1V46) is now a 5-car instead of 8 or 9. (It's now scheduled to use Leeds platform 12C, rather than 12 - meaning an 8-car won't fit since it...

The railway, and each organised religion, are all certain that they are the best means of getting Man to his ultimate destination.

Super, thank you.

This may have been answered somewhere in the previous 595 pages - sorry if so. When the Edinburgh portion of the lowland sleeper (1B26) arrives at Waverley, and then departs empty for Polmadie, one of four things must occur: 1) Loco runs round to attach to the west end of the train 2) There are...

Slightly off-thread, but I hope not too far: Before Derby resignalling/remodelling (so before 2018), there used to be an 8- or 9-car voyager that came from Central Rivers early in the morning, splitting at Derby platform 6 to form a 4- (or 5-) car set to Newcastle, and a 4- (or 5-) car set to...

In 9 months' time, one called Jess will open.

Stansted Airport tunnel. The most intensively-used section of single track in the country. (Except the Merseyrail Liverpool loop - but that’s uni-directional.) 1744485660 My understanding of the Ware situation was that the local councillors, or equivalent way back when the railway was built...

The signalling location cases at Malton are on stilts to keep them out of the flood water.

(Tongue firmly in cheek) Cambridge platforms 1 & 4.

I’m expecting “FOR.” “RENT” to appear. Then any 8 letters can be interposed there for a donation to a charity of Exeter PSB’s choice? If the bay is still out of use at the end of August, I’d put in a bid to record my wife’s birthday…

And in the same breath, we denounce Crossrail as being far far too expensive. But it adds 10 trains per hour each way onto the Relief line westbound, with no gaps for maintenance or inspection. At the same time, red-zone working on the live railway is banned, so that there's even less...

Piercing - Karaoke at the House of Lords

Last Tuesday (11th March) I noticed quite a few masts up between Micklefield and Church Fenton. The gap at the Church Fenton end is because of the work to replace Rose Lane user-worked level crossing by a bridge.