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Looking a bit grim around the West/East Midlands according to Twitter. Wolves Stafford blocked, Derby Sheffield, Chase Line. The North Warwicks line becoming a canal as normal. https://twitter.com/NetworkRailBHM/status/1715302411303063782. Bromsgrove below.

Delete if elsewhere but Avanti and ASLEF have tweeted about a strike on July 2nd. https://twitter.com/AvantiWestCoast/status/1669681276545118210

You would be taking passenger trains out the timetable to run freight down there. The infrastructure is purely to deliver TfW services.

mods note - split from here You cannot impose that on them.

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/november-strike-action-on-national-rail-suspended-impact-on-next-weeks-service.239141/ Got knocked back. New proposal incoming.

Not sure if it has been discussed before, but it looks like Go Op have given up on the Taunton Nuneaton (was Birmingham) idea and have gone for a condensed Taunton Swindon shuttle. Still persisting 10 years on! http://www.go-op.coop/train/

Whoopsie https://twitter.com/davetracz/status/1019555342349414401 (taken from WNXX forum)

This one has snuck on to the ORR website today by the looks of it. Link Wonder if this will really get off the ground now.

Horden Peterlee in County Durham which will receive £4.4 million of DfT funding towards a scheme worth £10.55 million Warrington West in Cheshire, which will receive £4.23 million towards a total project cost of £17.2 million Reading Green Park which will receive £2.3 million towards a total...

1Z64 getting toasty at Northampton apparently.

Rugeley power station is to close in the summer, means no more freight along there until the Cannock intermodal terminal gets off the ground.

A lot has been played on this report saying that Norton Bridge allows a load of extra paths, it isn't specific on where they are going to and from and I really can't see where they are, especially south of Rugby.

This has now been published as an initial scoping report at 76 pages. Shaw report

Just seen on the BBC website.

Not got it to hand but I hear ORR have said no again.

Story here BBC

Virgin get an extension until 2017. Makes sense if Dec 16 is going to get a bit of an overhaul Virgin press release http://www.virgintrains.co.uk/about/media-room/#/pressreleases/passengers-and-taxpayers-winners-in-new-virgin-trains-contract-1010212

Hysterical stuff! BBC Story

Looks like some through services would be pretty much nailed on. DfT story

Rail Operations Group Couldn't find a mention of this in the search facility. Appears they are looking to be like a driver agency and will train drivers up for hire to TOC/FOCs. Thoughts? Will TOCs take them on or will they prefer their own training regimes and recruitment?