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I used to live in village with a (short) 40mph section on on an otherwise unrestricted "A" road that cut the community in half. We measured speeds of up to 60mph at times and crossing on foot, at the only possible location, on a bend with a restricted sightline, was a nightmare. You had to...

I will start with some extracts from a booklet called "Portsmouth Railways" by Edwin Course, published by Portsmouth City Council in 1969. A copy has kindly been given to me recently: I hadn't heard of this proposal before. It strikes me that if built it might have radically changed Hayling...

RSSB has released a "Sustainable Rail Blueprint" - available on the following link: https://www.rssb.co.uk/-/media/Project/RSSB/RssbWebsite/Documents/Public/Public-content/Sustainability/the-sustainable-rail-blueprint.pdf Here's the Executive Summary: And the Introduction, which doesn't...

The Public Accounts Committee has published a report on the plans for Euston Station. It's available here: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7316/hs2-euston/publications/ Here is the Summary on Page 1:

I see that the Class 700s are to get an ERTMS upgrade: https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/thameslink-fleet-set-for-additional-digital-upgrade#:~:text=The%20entire%20fleet%20will%20be,the%20East%20Coast%20Digital%20Programme. These trains were fitted with ETCS and and ATO from the...

Article dated 10th May 2023 from New Civil Engineer website - it's behind a paywall so no point in linking it. I will quote in full: Is this money well spent?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64540696 I have started this thread, not because I have anything useful to say, but because it seems wrong that we ignore this tragic event completely. Our thoughts are, I am sure, with the victims and their families and particularly with those...

I recall my dad (in about 1957. when taking me to see trains on the WCML, far from my usual spotting grounds on the Hertford Loop and Lee Valley) getting sad about the fact that the LNWR "Claughton" 4-6-0s had all gone. Does anyone know why they were scrapped after only twenty years or so of...

Here is a link to a New Civil Engineer article under the above headline. https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/4bn-underground-line-mooted-to-connect-southampton-and-portsmouth-06-07-2022/?tkn=1 Much as it is a nice idea, it sounds a bit hopeful in today's economic and railway context!

Can anyone tell me which sections of NR single line infrastructure are still operated on "Tokenless Block" principles? For those interested and who don't know what that is, there is good article here; (I have copied the important bit below)

(As far as I can see there isn't a thread on this already) RAIB has just published its report on the above incident and it's worth a read. Here's the link and the summary...

I am interested in gathering practical experience with heat pumps. I can contribute mine. Two years ago we replaced the six night storage heaters in our small village hall with an air source heat pump feeding low temperature radiators. It cost about £15K of which half came as a grant from our...

Almost every TV bulletin on Ukrainian people fleeing from the Russian invasion shows, without comment, a packed train about to leave from an eastern city or at Lviv or at the Polish border. Ukrainian railway staff are clearly sticking to their posts and continuing to operate the railway in face...

I have just received the following text: To me that's obviously a scam because there ain't no such fine, but what worries me is that it appears to come from NHS-NoReply and appears directly below a text from my local GP about vaccination clinics. It may look pretty convicing to some. How is...

I was reading a railway history of Tewkesbury the other day, and saw a mention of ambulance trains operating in WWII to a temporary US Military Hospital at Malvern and had some interesting snippets on their operation. The source cited was O S Nock's Britain's Railways at War, 1939-1945. I...

Noting that GBR has launched a "call for evidence" for the government's "Whole Industry Strategic Plan". The link is here: https://gbrtt.co.uk/wisp/

Here is an interesting summary of a research paper that I haven't managed to find the original of yet: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/business/news/headline_821384_en.html

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/derailment-and-collision-near-salisbury-fisherton-tunnel-31-10-21.224217/ We should be careful that we don't rush to judgement on this one. RAIB made it clear that they will be looking at train braking system function and...

I have a collection of old OO-gauge steam outline locomotives (mostly rescued from the scrap road and rebuilt) which I get out and run occasionally. I have been going to build a layout one day since about 1998! I get fed up with cleaning the wheels, particularly the old Triang ones made of...

Idea prompted by this post in the "Worlds Most Complex Trackwork" thread. If the British Government in the early 1840s had decided to take a hand in the strategic planning of the national network, would there have been one or more central London combined stations? If so where and with what...