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Is it me or are these getting earlier and earlier? I’ve been caught out a couple of times in the last few months on major routes in different parts of the country, by closures starting at 8pm. This seems unreasonably early to me. This is still a time when people are going about their daily...

Just a quick one, but can anyone explain please, seems a little odd?

Quite a lot going on in the South of Italy at the moment, so I just thought I’d post an update: 1) Naples to Bari Line is being upgraded to High Speed specifications to cut the journey time from 4 hours to 2. 2) A new High Speed line is being built South of Salerno to Reggio Calabria, aiming...

Now that Transpennine are running Huddersfield-Wakefield-Normanton-Castleford, should the current Hallam Line Northern stopper (Leeds-Castleford-Wakefield-Barnsley-Sheffield all stops service) cease to divert via Castleford in order to improve end to end journey times? It could still call at...

This Friday I will be landing at Milan Malpensa at around 1440. I’m going to buy a Trenord day ticket. I will be departing Milano Centrale at 2115 on the ICN 765 to Taranto. I’d like to use the intervening time to travel on the locomotive hauled regional services out of Centrale, and possibly...

From time to time the GWR Night Riviera sleeper service has been formed of daytime stock such as a HST, or IET. However, are there any historic examples where sleeper stock has stood in for daytime services in some form of rolling stock emergency? A couple of 'grey areas' are the Caledonian...

I recently boarded a Meadowhall-Sheffield service. I hold a Sheffield-Leeds season ticket. I offered my ticket to scan to the guard, and he scanned it and told me it wasn’t valid from Meadowhall and that a ticket inspector may have an issue with it resulting in a PF. Can someone clarify this...

Now that the 4th platform is complete at Bradford Forster Square, and wiring is in progress between Leeds and York; could LNER run a Bradford to Edinburgh (or even onwards to Glasgow QS) service?This would be primarily to provide additional capacity between Leeds and Scotland relieving XC, but...

Some promising words and intent from Northern for the future, in terms of performance, rolling stock and solving the all important Sunday issue. The interview was done for the Green Signals Podcast.

A simple one, what is different about First Class Plus compared to First Class on Trenitalia Intercity services please? It's the first time I've seen it offered when just booking a journey online today. I booked it anyway, but it would be nice to know what's different about it...

Next January I’ll be having a week in Milan and I’m looking for some recommendations of rail day trips from there please. We’ll be staying near Milano Centrale although we can use other stations if necessary. So far we have planned: - Bernina Express - A day trip to Turin as we’ve never...

Finally someone has announced an Electrostar. Looks an excellent specification and they are seeking expressions of interest, so if you want one then please do express your interest. https://railsofsheffield.com/blogs/news/accurascale-rails-oo-gauge-electrostar

Many services cancelled or delayed off Sheffield this morning. Presumably most are cancelled due to traincrew being unable to get to work due to conditions on the roads, rather than snow on the network. A snow clearing locomotive is running over the Hope Valley from Stockport to Sheffield but...

Morning all; is anyone aware of any railways operating on Friday 3rd January please? Ideally within around 2 hours drive of Sheffield. I’m aware of the Keighley & Worth Valley and the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, but I’ve visited those quite a bit in the last 12 months so ideally looking to...

Could anyone kindly clarify how the various Thunderbird locomotives around the network are crewed please? I’m thinking mainly of the DRS WCML 57’s and the WCRC ECML 47/57’s, but are there any more across the network? Are there dedicated drivers provided for these by DRS/WCRC who sit waiting...

South Elmsall is in West Yorkshire, but I’ve just been advised at a ticket office that an off-peak day return from a station in South Yorkshire to South Elmsall has off-peak evening restrictions still, despite such a journey crossing the boundary between South and West Yorkshire. Is this...

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C11312/2024-11-16/detailed Is anyone able to elaborate what this service is likely to be please? At first I thought it was a footex, but I can’t see any relevant games. (Mods, it’s not possible to coherently reproduce the text from the link)

Last night, as I travelled from Carlisle to Leeds on a Northern service, the internal PIS advised that the service that normally starts at Ribblehead was cancelled. However, platform information systems (PIS) and RealTimeTrains (RTT) were not showing the service as cancelled, although RTT did...

A simple one, did Regional Railways GMPTE Grey/Red branded DMU’s ever cross the border into Yorkshire in service? I know they made it into Cumbria and North Wales but I’m not so sure about whether they strayed into Yorkshire or not?

Later this year I intend to take the famous train up the Douro Valley, Portugal. However, I was thinking of getting the train all the way to the end of the line, then getting the train back to Pinhao and sailing back from there. Has anyone done the river cruise, and would they recommend doing...