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What is the least reliable "intercity " service out of London in terms of its always cancelled or departs late? I'd plump for 1c89, the 1635 London to Plymouth. Realtime trains shows it departed Paddington on time just once in the past week, and my own experience in the past is that it ALWAYS...

Pretty dire today on the Western in terms of cancelled trains due to no traincrew (who was it who said on here the work to rule was having little impact??) Its now got so bad the Plymouth Argyle team travelling up to London are being forced to stand as their booked seats where on the previous...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gwr-short-train-lengths.244744/ But surely if money was spent on lengthening some of the 5s to 9s then its a win win. We are not losing any sets, just adding much needed capacity. As I said before, if we don't do it now, it will...

Can't see it posted elsewhere, and apologies if this is in another thread, but XC have re vinyled 3 x Power cars at Laira , one is 184 in executive, then there is one in Swallow and one in Br blue and yellow. Unsure on power car IDs but it is reported on a Plymouth FB page im a member of (not...

Moderator note: Split from Lumo overspeed incident at peterborough 17-04-2022 Would be interesting to know if the driver was one of the ex Tyne and Wear Metro drivers that Lumo took on. If so, he or She would have no high speed experience, something that certain Tocs like Eurostar always...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/10x-class-221-for-grand-central.249024/ The new timetable has really shown up XC for its need to get more stock. The 1127 Plymouth to Edinburgh is formed a 4 car and is ridiculously overcrowded days after day. Surely this service...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/dft-has-spent-a-total-of-%C2%A352-3m-on-transitioning-network-rail-to-great-british-railways-so-far.248500/ Indeed. As with BR at the end, Intercity, Regional, NSE etc was perfect. Thats the kind of lines I'd be looking at, so an...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/merseyrail-class-777.153458/ Can I ask about why black fronts where chosen. Surely these are poor visibility wise from foot crossings for members of the public and there is also the issue with sunlight reflecting off the front and...

Hearing a (very very strong) rumour that the GWR 2+4 HSTs are to be withdrawn completely by December 2023. No plans to replace them either but it will be bye bye to Cornish half hourly. A regressive step in my opinion, I only hope it turns out not to be true.

Moderator: Posts #1-7 were originally in this thread. One observation i will reluctantly make. At Plymouth, we have had as many SPADs this year as in the previous 10. And all this year coming from new drivers. There are a hell of a lot of decent drivers out there who have recently gone through...

As of next week all GWR IETs will have the speed limited set automatically to 125mph (in practice this keeps the train at 124mph due to the difference between mph and kph). So no more 125mph on the Western :-(

OK, so I've heard the following messroom gossip today, not sure how accurate it is, but apparently its come from quite high up. GWR are looking at reducing a number of 9 car sets to 7 car sets by removing 2 coaches and placing the 2 removed coaches into a number of 5 car sets to make up a fleet...

Had reason to go to Essex recently and thought I'd try out the new stadler trains. Couldn't quite believe how lively the ride was, actually made me queasy (takes alot as I drive locos without much suspension). Absolutely horrific jerking from side to side. The like of which I haven't...

Cards on the table, this is a rant. After 20 years of buying Rail I really have had enough and have finally come to the descion it isnt worthy of 8 quid a month of my money. It really saddens me to say this as I used to really enjoy it, and there are still one or two good bits (Wolmar, Barry...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/working-abroad-as-a-train-driver.212576 Thanks to Brexit I'd of thought it'd be very difficult to move to another country and get employment (other than Ireland).

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/driverless-trains-tfl-leaked-report-a4572998.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0R7zBtzChZ0p_KqDpSbHpuoBO7qivtcDx-nZYOVIpmHivhUuYR1dbvWhU#Echobox=1603724961 What most on here long suspected , driverless tube trains are an ideological...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gwr-change-of-service.206466/ I cant help but feel the west country service provision has been severely over complicated. The prevalence of 5 car sets has certainly led to massively increased staffing costs in drivers alone, let...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/post-hs2-service-assumptions-using-released-capacity.206762/ Another disappointment in all this, as far as I can see, is no projections of any direct services from the south west to the north west with all of this released capacity...

I am interested to see how the railway will go forward in the medium term post covid. There are rumours out there that the government will be asking the TOCs for some big sacrifices in order for continuing support over the next two years. We have already seen B*ris demand the tube go driver...

Just wondering if any of the recorders out there can tell me what the recorded best time start to stop for Reading to Paddington. I did 21.27 recently and got me thinking how that stands in grand scheme of things? Does the rail performance society hold the data for best times?? (I know mine...